Muchas Gracias!!!

Thank you everyone for continuing to support us, our motorcycle, and our blog. Thank you for the financial donations that make my work on Bonnie possible and keep us on the road to adventure and new friends. Thank you for your comments, anecdotes, blogs, and twitter updates. We love sharing our stories and experiences with everyone we meet in our daily lives, and with all of our dedicated followers on the blog, through advrider.com, and on twitter.com. 

We have received some very generous donations since we left the states:

Christopher Hillard, your donation has helped us cover the costs of cleaning out our gas tank. 

Michael Saunders, we have finally found a good deal on an electric starter.

Steve Brawley and Marc Lanciaux, your incredible donations are going  towards a new front tire. I have been searching far and wide for a good deal, quality that will last, and tread that will keep us on the beaten path while allowing us visits off the beaten path. I have a supplier in Mexico City all lined up for the transaction.

 

Robert Owen,  thanks for the donation. It will help us get the motor back in the bike for good. I have found a used cam chain tensioner a used cam chain, and a new head gasket. 

Mark Hyatt, your donation has bought us a new cam chain master link.

I also want to say thank you to my family for helping us with shipping our care package of parts and tools to Mexico.

Viva Mexico!

Benjamin

 

Public Service Announcement

Hey dudes and dudettes!

I have a question and a psuedo-PSA and a mini-PSA:

Question:

Do you have any ideas of how I could better advertise this blog? Specific forums, ideas on advertising, people we could contact? I am a little stumped as to who to reach out to right now.

Reason/Psuedo-PSA:

Ben and I make a pittance via advertisements that are (hopefully) not super intrusive and occasionally from donations from really awesome people (who are probably afraid we would start eating cactus and coyote roadkill if they didn't throw us some money). So the more people who read this occasionally or regularly, the more money we get. 

This is good, because it means that we can do this a bit longer and that we can do more fun things, because everyday we have to decide on whether we want to have one more tank of gas, or if we buy the part that we desperately need so that the motorcycle doesn't explode on us. We are not King Solomon, you know?? 

It also means that we make more friends because then folks are like 'Hey these guys might be cool I should meet them' and then we have more things to write about and everyone wins. Oh, and if you have a really rich uncle who likes sponsoring hardworking crazy kids like us, give us his contact info. 

Mini-PSA:

Also! Please don't forget that if you like us, you should link us! We will link you back! 

And! Please check out our photo albums at: http://picasaweb.google.com/jenandtheart We are very diligent about trying to keep them organized and up-to-date! Not all of the great photos that we have show up in the blog! We also try to keep our latest photos rotating in the slideshow to the left. 

And! We now are posting videos because I became brave over at: http://www.youtube.com/user/jenandtheart If you have a youtube account, you should rate them like one bazillion percent so that other people will see them too, and so that we can maybe one day beat out all the Miley Cyrus videos that show up on youtube.

Ok. That is all. Thank you.  I am working on getting our videos up from Mardi Gras in San Luis Potosi, and once that happens, I will post a blog about it. 

Love,

Jen

An order of supreme Thanks, right on target.

Vanya, an xs500 whiz on advrider.com, has been helping me get to the bottom of our motorcycle troubles. His advice has been right on target, and has helped me through a full tuneup of the bike.

Before we left on this adventure, our stead Bonnie rested at my folks' house in Oregon. She was not forgotten there, but didn't get out very often while I lived in New Orleans and Seattle. During this time her gas tank sat empty and her seat withered up. The seat was rebuilt in Oregon before I went to pick Jen up in Seattle, and since New Orleans, Bonnie has embraced a great seat cover that carries our pillows. Now the gas tank has been cleaned up; the rust that was plugging our lines and stranded us on the side of the road has been cleaned up. We are once again getting ready to carry on.

So thanks to Vanya, and everyone else on advrider.com.

Benjamin