And that's about as far as my Spanish goes.
So I'm Drew, and I'm a 19 year old journalism student from Sydney, Australia. Next year, with a photographer friend from uni by my side, I’ll be riding a motorcycle from the Southern tip of Chile (Punta Arenas), to the northern tip of Alaska (Deadhorse) - documenting the whole journey on our website.
From what I can gather, most motorbike adventurers ride big, expensive, western bikes (e.g. Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on their fully kitted out BMW’s). Though again from what I can gather, there seems to be a re-occurring problem caused by such bikes - that when they brake down no one in the non-western-world has any clue how to fix them let alone where to find spare parts. It seems far more logical to ride a common, local motorcycle (though obviously a good one), where spare parts are easy to find and every kid on the side of the street knows hows to attach them. So my first question is:
1) Is there a particular motorcycle that is commonly found throughout most of South America, and if so what is it?
My next few questions are more straight forward and specific:
2) Is the price of fuel more or less consistent throughout South America? And if so, what roughly is it?
3) What is the situation with camping in a tent throughout South America? Is it common, dangerous, etc?
4) Obviously Spanish is the most common language throughout South America, but is that the case throughout the more rural areas? Do villagers still speak their native tongue or will we be ok just with Spanish?
Anyway, I have a lot more questions but I won’t bombard you with them all at once. Our website will be up soon and I will let you know the address when it is.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated and get us a step closer to the ride of our lives!
Nos vemos!
Drew
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