Motorbike to Valledupar

The morning before we left for our motorbike trip Hanna prepared an incredible breakfast.

We rented the bike from a local mechanic, super cheap for about 12€ a day.

The clutch was loose. I wasn't able to switch gears anymore. Turns out it was just a loose screw, our mechanical knowledge was enough to fix that 👍

We also noticed that princesa lost a lot of oil, so we kept an eye on that.

The lid for the tank was difficult to open and wouldn't open at all anymore at some point. We had to get that fixed, went to the next mechanic and he did it for free! I just had to buy a new lid from the hardware store across the street. People here are extremely helpful.

It was an awesome evening, here is a video of them singing:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1dqrbdF5oHYDLPa0uzZNMu0OCjTdpYZr3

The next day we went into the mountains where an idyllic river is.

On the way we saw how the locals dry their coffee - on the street

One child came and asked what we are doing here, where we are from etc. and we soon had many more.

One father came to Hanna and asked her if she would speak English with his daughter, to practice the language a bit. She agreed and found herself soon in the awkward position to sit in front of this girl, supposed to speak now. Two dudes were filming them which didn't make it any easier but they found their flow and had a great talk for an hour.

We had later in the evening cocktails, it was also the last evening Hanna and me had together.

It also lost a part of the plastic cover for the front wheel. Princesa really wasn't the easiest one but I think it's a good training for Vietnam..

Originally we planned to go with the bike into the desert but decided against that because it was terrible touristic there, people are blocking the streets and asking for money (blocking it with metal chains) and the motorbike is not made for off road, I'm sure we would have had huge issues in the desert.

We arrived good in Riohacha, packed our things and I left Hanna there alone. She continues on the Caribbean, I went to Maicao for a night to go in the morning by bus to Bogota where I am writing this blog entry now. I know this is short and that I wrote already way better stuff, I'm terrible tired but wanted to finish this - forgive me please 😋

I will play more computer here, wash all my things REALLY good (immigration to Australia is difficult when you got dirty stuff) and relax a bit.

So far so good, more news before I fly for one day layover to LA.

Peace out,

Laurin