The Church in Catemaco a town by a fresh water lake.

                              Monica teaching Drew and I how to count, while Rhonda watches on.

                                     A road block, the road further back had collapsed. This happens a lot in Mexico.

 The Mayan Ruins, Palenque a Historic site, Google it, to save me describing the place.

                                           A few of the group

                                             More of the ruins

A Arrow Head snake, we came across him in the Mayan jungle, he is highly poisonous.

San Miguel Allende to Costa Esmeraldas

                                           San Miguel Allande a colonial town

                                          Another dump of an hotel in San Miguel

                                                The Market square San Miguel

                                      A typical mountain village

Its Mexico's independence day on the 16th September so there's partying and celebrations everywhere.

                                                  More ugly girls

 Men with guns everywhere apparently its quite a dangerous place, they were very friendly though.

                                                       lots of statues

Zacatecas

 Zacatecas Cathedral, over hotel is opposite. We are here for two nights groovy!

 What a place to park a van right outside the beautiful Hotel Emporio, which is where we are staying.

                                         Police bikes, they will never catch us on them.

                                             A view of the city

                                   Another view of the city from the Teleferico

                                      A local family making and selling jewellry

                                        A view from the cable car that runs across the city

Martin, Drew, Gary andy myself in the Mina "El Eden" the local silver mine, Zacatecas was built around silver mines.

                The bikes fixed and we're on our way to México ye ha

 A couple of the local guys. We crossed the border yesterday early to avoid the bad guys with guns, haven't seen any yet, only seen the locals who are very friendly.

The hotel in Creel, a small Mexican town, this is the real Mexico I love it.

Copper Canyon, four times bigger than Grand Canyon inhabited by the Tarahumara Indians.

A high plain, very green, today we rode the best roads I've ever ridden, 200 miles of twists and turns. Tonight we have to stay in the hotel after dark, because we are staying in a dangerous place Dickie tells us.

On the way to Tucson our stopping off place to Mexico, we travel down the road that everybody asks if thats where your going, if you tell them your riding through America.

             A little bit off camera theft, thats Gary, he's a maggie, hence the grin!

                                  Real Cactus, we really are heading South.

Oh no! my bikes broke, the clutch slave cylinder has failed so I'm in the van for the next few days, we're having the bikes services in Tucson so should be able to get it fixed there.

                                         Not to worry I'll take this one!

   Deceided to take up flying again, this one suites me fine, and it is a real plane.

The bone yard in Tucson. The USAF base where the have over $30 billion worth of aircraft mothballed. Amazing. We're off to Mexico tomorrow when the journey really begins

More planes

Monument Valley and Grand Canyon

        Monument valley. We rode out in the dark to see the sun rise beautiful

                     A view of Monument Valley from the visitors centre

                                                             Sun rise

                               The log cabin I  am staying at in Jacobs Lake

 The Grand Canyon, the photos won't do it justice, I never use the word Awesome, but this place is awesome

                                      Another self portrait

 One foot on the edge, its about a 300 ft drop at this point, I didn't hang around to long.

Living the American Dream

 Living the American dream, doing as the natives do, no helmet bandanna, cruising along, actually we where in a National Park the speed limit is 35 mph so I thought I'd take a chance.

                           Riding over Red Mountain Pass 11'000 feet

 We meet a friendly trucker, all the Americans we meet are very friendly and are always stopping us to ask about our trip, we even had a guy buying us drinks the other night!

 Where four states meet, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, a limb in each state.

                                 The top of the Moki Dugway

and into Valley of the Gods