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

 

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

Thanks for the spanks, hu-hum, I mean support.

Our tenacity to attempt a trip that most would call foolhardy is only possible through the wonderful help we receive along the road. Does anyone remember our guardian angel, Mike? A fella down on his economic luck, without a lick of motorcycle knowledge, who stopped to make sure we were okay when we broke down outside of Edinburg, Texas. He helped us throw our bike in the back of his van, a feat we were only able to accomplish with the help of a mini-cooler. Don't ask me how, it's a dream I keep telling myself. 

For others, their help comes in the form of donations for gas, or like Alan Brandon's donation went to an oil change. Leah Weston donated for gas money that got us to Mission, Texas,  and David Kahm, whose name reminds me of an old friend, David Kime, but that could be a coincidence. His donation has helped us purchase some parts for our latest tuneup. 

So thank you everyone believes in us, and supports the limb that we are out on. That means you too, Gulu and Tessa. We love your house in Mission, but promise we are not moving in forever.