terça-feira, 8 de março de 2011

Werner white x Werner black

Ladies and Gentleman, we have 2 Werner version so you can apreciate and decide which one you prefer!!

Here we go:

segunda-feira, 7 de março de 2011

End of Trip!! Alcala to Bogota 19.000 km

Today we run our 350 final kilometers. We left Alcala, at 800am and arrived in Bogota at 500pm , a long day.
The road is very curvy and as you come closer to Bogota, the numbers of trucks increases a lot. Trucks with ramps , are not a good combination, and the last 100 kilometers were complicated.



18.925 Kilometers in 65 days. A rough a
verage of  300km a day.
The balance of the trip is absoutelly fantastic. The scenery is great, the group was supperb, the organization flawless.!!




















Colombia Coffee Area- March 6

Ontem percorremos toda a regiao cafeeira da Colombia. Com altitude variando de 900 a 1700 metros, temos um infinidade de produtores em pequenas fazendas e sitios.
Acabamos ficando hospedados numa delas. Diferentemente das fazendas do Brasil, o cafe é despolpado, e vendido *molhado* a 50% . Teem 2 colheitas por ano e fora isto continuam colhendo durante todo o ano somente os cerejas...

As estradas sao bem bonitas e absolutamente parecidas com as da  região de Pinhal e Sul de Minas. Até os Jipes antigos sao iguais!


Marcia se preparando para os 250km que tinhamso pela frente. Com chuva!!!

 Montanhs ingremes e vales profundos



Tomando um café Colombiano  , in loco.









sexta-feira, 4 de março de 2011

March 3, Equator line and going in to Colombia

Yesterday, we drove out of Quito going to the monument that is Exactly Over the Equator line.
The precision of the site is 1 milimiter.

Extremelly interesting in astronomy, and we learned a lot. For instance the angle between the sun and that poing on winter and summer solstice is 23degrees and 30min. That is why the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer are in this latitude.

After that , we faced A LONG BUREOCRATIC process to exit Equador and enter Colombia. The roads were very nice, curvy and nice tarmac.

The view again becomes amazing...