Motorcycle Travel

Click video to see the GlobeBusters 1st ever Trans Americas motorcycle ride in 2005. This motorcycling experience was filmed and put on National Geographic Channel World Wide.

Nineteen weeks and 24,000 miles of adventure motorcycle riding from the top of the world to the bottom. It is the ultimate adventure through diverse terrain, cultures and peoples, bringing you the best balance of spectacular and challenging riding, with time to explore the countries that you are motorcycling through.

This motorcycle ride covers around 10% of dirt and gravel roads (up to 2,000 miles), although as the infrastructure develops, this may reduce in future years.

Do not underestimate being on the road for nearly 5 months - this ride is as much about your mental ability to cope with being travel weary and to pull together in times of unexpected difficulties en route, as it is about being a confident and competent road rider.

Detailed Itinerary
Week 1 - ALASKA
Anchorage. Sweat Lodge Ceremony. Fairbanks. Dalton Highway to the Arctic Circle. Coldfoot Camp, Prudhoe Bay and the chance to swim in the Arctic Ocean. Return through Delta Junction, furthest point north on the Alaskan Highway.

Weeks 2 & 3 - CANADA
Alaskan Highway to Watson Lake. Stewart Cassiar Highway to Bear Glacier, Stewart and Hyder (the most southern point of Alaska). Watch the bears at Fish Creek. Prince George, Jasper National Park, Lake Louise, Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump. Enter the USA through the Glacier National Park and "Going to the Sun" Road.

Weeks 4 & 5 - USA
Flathead Lake. Yellowstone National Park. Cody, home of Buffalo Bill. Arches National Park, Canyonlands, Monument Valley, Lake Powell and the Grand Canyon (North Rim). Tucson.

Weeks 6 & 7 - MEXICO
Naco border crossing Nuevo Casa Grandes. Creel. Colonial heartland to Zacatecas, the centre of silver mining production and San Miguel de Allende. Mountain riding to Caribbean coast. Ruins of Palenque and the village of San Cristobal.

Weeks 8, 9 & 10 - CENTRAL AMERICA
Guatemala - Lake Atitlan, Chichicastenango market, Antigua. Border town of Esquipalas. Honduras - Copan ruins. Nicaragua - Granada, San Juan del Sur. Costa Rica - Arenal volcano and hot springs. Northern Caribbean Coast. Panama - Bridge of the Americas and the Panama Canal. Visit to SOS Children's Villages. Air freight of bikes.

Week 11 - COLOMBIA & ECUADOR
Collect bikes in Bogota. Meet local rider group. Ride the great Colombian roads to Medellin. See the odd Botero Sculptures. On to Ecuador and cross the Equator, the local Indian market town of Otavalo and experience your first riding in the Andes.

Weeks 12 & 13 - PERU
Chiclayo, Lord of Sipan Museum, Huanchaco, adobe ruins of Chan Chan, Paracas, Nasca Lines, Cusco (4 nights with many optional excursions - Machu Picchu, Pisac market, Sacsayhuaman), Lake Titicaca, Arequipa & Colca Canyon to watch condors.

Weeks 14, 15 & 16 - CHILE
Arica, the Atacama Desert, The Hand, Tropic of Capricorn, Pacific Coast villages, Pisco Elqui, Santiago, Chilean Lake District, Andes crossing to Bariloche and Esquel (Argentina). Cross back to Chile to ride the Carretera Austral. Puyuhuapi Thermas.

Weeks 17 & 18 - ARGENTINA
Ruta 40, the infamous gravel road through Patagonia. El Calafate & Perito Moreno Glacier. Cross back to Chile to Torres del Paine National Park, Puerto Natales and Punta Arenas. Argentinian Tierra del Fuego, Rio Grande, Ushuaia (the most southern city in the world), Tierra del Fuego National Park, the end of the road and a celebration meal!

Week 19 - ARGENTINA
The final week of the expedition will involve riding back north along the South Atlantic coast to Buenos Aires for air-freight back home.

You can find the DVD and more information about Globebusters motorcycle trip here.