http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer Canada, USA, Mexico, Panama, South America Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chaad woke us up early in the morning before he left for work for some sweet sweet goodbye cuddles before we left. We stayed at the Christiansen's place in Kelowna, made dinner, went for a walk, talked to Mike's mom and the fire alarm went off twice that ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/kelowna-bc-jul-31-aug-1.html We left Seattle early morning to beat the lines at the border crossing. We visited Edmund's uncle Norm & aunt Millie in North Vancouver, they took us out for an extraordinary lunch and we picked up our snowboard stuff that they so generously stored for us for the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/vancouver-bc-jul-27-aug-1.html It was 8 hour drive from Valley of the Rogue to Seattle. The car broke down on the side of the highway but we were luckily able to fix it after 2 hours. We arrived to Joe's place in Seattle and set up our tent in his ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/seattle-wa-jul-25-27.html Woke up at 5:45am and drove for 12 hours along the I-5. We made it about 1 hour into Oregon and stayed at a state camp ground in the Valley of the Rogue. We did a short and uninteresting walk by a river and then crashed in our ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/arcadia-la-california-to-the-valley-of-the-rogue-oregon-jul-24-25.html Left San Carlos super early.  We were very happy to get to the states and no longer have to pay for the highways at the frequent Mexican toll stations.  Mexico also has tons of military check-points and check-points to search your car for fruit.  The US did have some military ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/arcadia-la-usa-jul-11-24.html Left Mazatlan early in the morning and drove for about 10 hours to San Carlos. We arrived early enough to go hang out at the beach and check out some cool lookout points. The San Carlos area is beautiful and the water is super warm! There was ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/mazatlan-to-san-carlos-mexico-jul-9-10.html Left Luis’s just before noon and drove for 6 hours to Mazatlan. We found a cheap hotel on the main strip next to the ocean in Mazatlan and went out for some great tacos! Didn’t do much else. http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/guadalajara-mazatlan-jul-8-9.html After over 12 hours in planes and airports it was amazing to get to Mexico and hang out with friendly people, warm weather, and great food! We spent a couple nights at Nacho´s house and a couple at Luis´s. Thanks guys! They took really good care of ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/guadalajara-mexico-jul-4-8.html We took a beautiful bus ride from Copacabana to La Paz. There were amazing views of Lake Titicaca and the city of La Paz. At one point we all had to get out of the bus and take a boat across part of Lake Titicaca and the bus ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/la-paz-bolivia-jul-2-4.html Took an early bus to Puno, Peru from Arequipa. The bus turned out to be a big piece of junk. The driver was a maniac and drove most of the trip in the wrong lane while passing semis around blind corners on the highway. After somehow surviving that bus ride ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kungfuhammer/copacabana-lake-titicaca-bolivia-jun-30-jul-2.html