[Richard230]

Itchy Boots is back and has bought a new Honda 300 Rally. She plans to continue her trip from South America and head to Alaska. Apparently she is not going to let Omicron get in her way.  Good for her. Here is a link to her latest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTnuoczs3tw

[AzCal Retred]

Then likely she's fully vaccinated & has the paperwork to prove it. Many countries are a bit hesitant to allow the unvaxxed unfettered access to their genpop.

[Richard230]

Then likely she's fully vaccinated & has the paperwork to prove it. Many countries are a bit hesitant to allow the unvaxxed unfettered access to their genpop.

Just a couple of weeks ago she got out of South Africa just in time, after riding through every one of those countries where the omicron has been found, resulting in South Africa being shut out of world travel. It will be interesting to see if she has any trouble getting out of the Netherlands where she is currently located, as it is another "hot spot" for the new virus version, and flying into a country in South America. I think when her trip was interrupted by Covid-19 she was in Peru and just barely got out before the country was in lock-down. She is a smart and fast mover. Maybe lucky, too.

[Boxerman]

As she said in one of her videos " I'm not a little blond girl, I'm a seasoned and experienced traveller".
She's a smart lady and will have weighed up the situation.

Frank

[Hoiho]

The CRF300L Rally looks like an ideal bike for her purposes, looking forward to seeing her adventures

[Richard230]

Itchy Boots is off to South America to continue her ride north to Alaska on a new Honda CCRF300 Rally that she has named "Alaska". What is interesting about this 20-minute video is that it shows what she had to do to get her and her motorcycle from the Netherlands to the UK, to Heathrow, on to an airplane and then to Quito, Ecuador.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpX0OGzk8yU

[Carlsberg Wordsworth]

Season 2 was 2 years ago!

Good lord time's gone fast.

Noraly's certainly done more than I have in that time.

[viczena]

As she said in one of her videos " I'm not a little blond girl, I'm a seasoned and experienced traveller".

Frank

So she did grow a grey beard like the "dork in the road"?

[Arschloch]

So she did grow a grey beard like the "dork in the road"?

Definitely has hairy tits.

[AzCal Retred]

Spoken like someone seeking attention...any attention at all.
How are those Brazil tickets coming along? Jair needs all the help he can get. Ship the GT now & avoid the rush.
Biden says "no boots on the ground" for Ukraine, I guess y'all are on your own. Last big tussel got all age groups involved, from 12 to 70+. Maybe you fall into the slot? The beaches of Rio look good in February...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-says-ground-troops-not-on-the-table-but-putin-would-face-severe-economic-sanctions-for-ukraine-invasion/2021/12/08/3b975d46-5843-11ec-9a18-a506cf3aa31d_story.html

[Arschloch]

I doubt i would be as lucky there as Itchi, probably not as bad as sweden though unlikely they even know what Asperger is neither are they likely to pay you with eye cancer.

[AzCal Retred]

Brazil is universally known as Asperger-Friendly, and eye-cancer is non-existent as Carnivale provides plenty of healthy eye exercise. Sequin glitter light rays are scientifically known to destroy eye cancer cells. Go now before travel closes down. You still have time to re-jet for alcohol.

[Arschloch]

Brazil is universally known as Asperger-Friendly, and eye-cancer is non-existent as Carnivale provides plenty of healthy eye exercise. Sequin glitter light rays are scientifically known to destroy eye cancer cells. Go now before travel closes down. You still have time to re-jet for alcohol.

So ok, i am buying Brazil but why February? What's on the menue in February you think?

[AzCal Retred]

Bad weather, good for LCAC operation against Taiwan by PRC. Also if bad weather over Europe, better for land armour to roll unimpeded, Allied air response is hampered. Jan/Feb here will have people out of work, easy to whip up Civil War 2 amongst the laid off anti-vaxxers & Alt-Reich in general. China & Russia both have dedicated cyber armies that have been priming the pump for awhile. A CW makes a great distraction. India coincidentally lost her top general in a mysterious helicopter crash, so another adversary degraded. Nothing in it for China & Russia to wait, Australia just gets better armed every day. These "Leaders for Life" have things to do.

[Carl Fenn]

Yes l have been watching her latest adventures, hope she has not dropped a clanger with the spread of omicron.

[Richard230]

Itchy Boots crosses the Amazon River the hard way:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsy5O2OzBE

[viczena]

The hardness of the steel cage was really impressive. She is getting old.

[AzCal Retred]

Some serious back yard engineering!    What were the rocks in the cage for?

[Carl Fenn]

Yes l have been watching her latest adventures.

[Richard230]

Some serious back yard engineering!    What were the rocks in the cage for?

I noticed the same thing. My guess is that they were there to balance out the platform so that it wouldn't tilt while someone (or something) entered the cage through the opening at the other corner.

[tooseevee]

I noticed the same thing. My guess is that they were there to balance out the platform so that it wouldn't tilt while someone (or something) entered the cage through the opening at the other corner.

           I'd agree about the rocks. It's all about balance.

           The lady is so impressive. It makes me laugh about some of the "adventure riders" who make videos & all they do is bitch about "how hard it is" from beginning to end. This lady just goes for it & handles it all alone.

           I was the most impressed with her (since the time she could have been in serious trouble in the mountains in freezing weather plowing through snow & slush) in Episode 6 getting across that river. It certainly showed her determination to gitterdun aside from showing her strength & skill with the bike.

[Richard230]

Here is the latest Itchy Boots clip describing her plan for getting herself and her motorcycle around the Darien Gap. Sounds pretty complicated to me:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzX9iQlYWvI

One thing that I noticed is that there are a lot of motorbikes in Columbia. More so than any other country that she has visited in her rides through South American countries so far.

[Karl Childers]

I spent a snowy afternoon watching some of her videos and came away impressed, she's the real deal.

[Morgan65]

I’ve in joyed many of her vids and have a lot of respect for her.

[Richard230]

I have been watching the latest episodes where Noraly takes an open outboard motor skiff ride with a couple of random guys that she met and her bike across the ocean along the coast of Columbia and Panama for about 10 hours total. What a crazy trip. You would have thought that there would be regular commercial ferries available to bypass the Darien Gap. But she did it the hard way as usual. She is in Panama now and should be publishing her latest clip in a few hours.

[Karl Childers]

I watched her latest episode last night, it was a good one. If I understand correctly a lot of the shipping options have closed since the start of the pandemic and riders have few other ways to get around the Darien Gap other than what Noraly did.

I saw another adventure video with two guys on Honda 125's facing the same problem as their boat would accept luggage but no motorcycles. Their solution was to disassemble the bikes and put them in large bags which the freighter would accept. Where there's a will there's a way.

[Carl Fenn]

I did as well watching her ferrying her bike across stormy waters, and then beating the clock to customs to get import papers and her insurance, she’s brilliant probably why we all love watching the lady on her adventures.

[Richard230]

Itchy Boots is now in Panama City and she takes you on a tour of the Canal locks and the old part of town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OdDwu3vBJM

I was there in 1966 and things have sure changed a lot. As I recall there was no "New Panama City" and the town didn't look all that great. In particular, it was surrounded by awful smelling homes made out of sheet metal and sitting on stilts over a swamp with no sewage system. It looks like things have really improved since then.  Attached are some photos that I took while stationed for 18 months at Howard AFB, long before the Canal was turned over to the Panama government.

[Richard230]

And here are a four more photos.

[Richard230]

This is an interesting Itchy Boots episode. In this 36-minute long clip she walks around the abandoned Mayan temples of Nakum in the Guatemalan jungle:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfDNWwgrVGc

[GlennF]

The one were she gets stuck in the mud was hilarious.

[Karl Childers]

I'd share a tent with Noraly any day!