Category Archives: Adventures

MotoTravel Adventures by Arnan and or Jeanette on their motorcycles. Read about our experiences and follow along on our journeys.

Preparing for a 5500km motorcycle trip

We, Arnan and Jeanette, are going to drive on motorcycles in Mexico from Cancun, Quintana Roo to La Paz in Baja California Sur. Our route getting there is well over 5000 kilometers long. And the idea is to spend about 3 months on it and seeing a lot of Mexico along the way. Simple, right? Yup… Adventure!

The difficult part is getting there in one piece while having fun. And I believe that gets exponentially easier if you have a bit of a plan.
I’ve made a route, tons of things to see and do along the way and have a general idea of which hotels we can use. And, well, adventure!!
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Finding Flamingos in Rio Lagartos

In June we went on a little mid-week road trip from Cancun to Rio Lagartos in Northern Yucatan, Mexico. The main goal was to find millions of flamingos.

Day 1

Leaving at around 8am from Cancun on our motorcycles, Arnan on his BMW F850GS and Jeanette on her G310GS, we of-course ignored the Quota (Toll road) and headed straight for the Libramento to Leona Vicario. A small town along the route. From there we followed carretera 180 to X-Can, an even smaller town just over the border of Yucatan state from where we headed North towards Tizimin – A midsize town with a nice old Spanish church and old buildings in the city centre.
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