Possibly Putting the Bikes to Bed and Lima, Peru...

I just read that title of this post again and it is even more depressing than I originally thought, but we are at a moment of great decisions and compromises here in our trip. No matter how much you try and forget about time on a trip like this and pretend it doesn´t pertain to you, it always comes back to time. Lima may well be the end of the motorcycle portion of our trip and it´s a very sad thing for me because I have become pretty attached to the bike and have really been enjoying riding through all these great places.

The problem is that we eventually need to do 1 of 3 things with the bikes before we fly home: 1. Sell them 2. Ship them home 3. Light them on fire and ghost ride them off a huge cliff in a sacrificial fire ceremony to the bike gods, with pictures of course. For me (and Kyle is leaning this way as well) the best thing would be to sell them, even though the fire and cliff thing would be so freakin awesome. It would be nice to recoup some of the money we spent on the bikes and for the trip as well. Shipping them home looks like it will be pretty expensive, and we´ve been told that Lima is probably the only place that it will be possible to sell them between here and Santiago, Chile where we meet the girls on the 17th. So we are now here in Lima, the biggest city we´ve seen on our trip at 6.5 million people. In between several other mischivieous activities we´ve been looking into the possibility of selling the bikes. We´re still kinda toying with the idea though, we really don´t want to see these things go. One way I like to look at it is that we dont want to make it all the way on our first try anyways right? That way it leaves another goal to accomplish for Sling Shot South II, The Sequel. Who´s in??? Maybe we´ll do Slingshot East or North...who knows. So we´ll keep you updated but in the meantime enjoy the pictures below!!!

The landscape has changed drastically after entering Peru. It went from Lush green jungles to crazy desert terrain. We been staying along the coast on the Pan-American Highway for the most part since crossing from Ecuador. Riding through the desert is pretty cool, gives you a real sense of enormity of the world and the smallness of yourself...if that makes any sense at all.

Don´t try this at home. Here´s Kyle with the 5 fingered salute! You have to do something to keep yourself entertained when pounding out miles in the desert...

This was the sunset in the town of Huanchaco, Peru. Huanchaco was such a great little town. We stayed there for 2 nights and rented some surfboards and wetsuits the second day. Kyle took surfing lessons and got up on something like his second try. Pretty talented that guy...

The fisherman in Huanchaco use these crazy little boats called Caballitos, which is an ancient-style fishing boat made from bundles of tortora reeds.

Here´s me trying to be artistic with my photos. Actually I just want to be able to take cool pictures all the time like my sister, I even bought the same camera she has for my trip. She has an incredible eye for finding great shots and using black and white and all that fun stuff. What do you think Megan???

This is what you might call a Peruvian Mansion in the hills. Actually a pretty high poverty level in Peru, good amount of political turmoil in recent years. Hopefully it´s turning itself around.

That´s me taking a break in the desert.

And me again in Huanchaco with the fishing boats. I have to keep the girlfriend happy with some shots of mysef every once in a while...

More crazy coastal scenery, and of course the Green Machine.

This is the Pan-American Highway a few hours North of Lima, straight through the desert.

We´re staying at the Point Hostel in Lima in a great little section of town called Barranca. It´s actually the first time we´ve done the dorm-style sleeping at a hostel instead of a private room. Not too bad actually. We had the room to ourselves the first night but it pretty full now

A couple shots of us messin around with a little 125cc China bike. Some guy at the Hostel is actually riding this thing across the country or something crazy like that.


Here´s the bar at the Hostel, they were getting ready for the army themed party we attended last night. Pretty good set up they have going at the hostel.

Until next time.....Clay