Not quite at Iguacu yet but expect to be there tomorrow afternoon......... So what's happened in the last couple of days? Been a little eventful but I got my motorbike back from BMW Motorrad (Officer) dealer in Sao Paolo, plus one new fully charged battery. Fantastic. And the great thing was they didn't want any money for it .... So finally we could continue to Foz do Iguacu. Then the weather happened. Some awesome roads and bends lay ahead, but then the he...

It's been rather a long day, or so it seems. I will explain later, or some of you have already seen my Facebook status. So after Porto Alegre we headed north once again towards Rio de Janeiro stopping along the way at the rather lovelier city of Florianopolis and the near Sao Paolo before finally arriving at the infamous city of Rio. Not a lot happened along the way apart from the usual fights with Internet access or lack of. Now I thought Rio would have a rea...

It's been a while, so I thought I'd better catch up on the last few days events. We left Rio Grande and headed for the next stop of Porto Alegre. Nothing much happened apart from getting the bikes washed after they got covered in fine sand in Punta del Diablo (Uruguay) - lovely and shiney. Oh I should mention I dropped my bike! How did that happen ? Well we arrived in Porto Alegre and I was attempting to follow very closely but a small van decided to shadow eve...

It's been a while, so I thought I'd better catch up on the last few days events. We left Rio Grande and headed for the next stop of Porto Alegre. Nothing much happened apart from getting the bikes washed after they got covered in fine sand in Punta del Diablo (Uruguay) - lovely and shiney. Oh I should mention I dropped my bike! How did that happen ? Well we arrived in Porto Alegre and I was attempting to follow very closely but a small van decided to shadow eve...

So we had escaped early yesterday morning ready for the unknown..........that is the border crossing into Brazil ! Short trip there, only about 30km, to one of the busiest crossing points between Uruguay and Brazil. Passed one 'check-point' ......nothing to be done there! "Carry on a few more km's" they said. "No problem" Ok! So on we went to the next one. All they wanted was our passports so they could be stamped. No motorbike paperwork, ...