San Jose, CA to Panama Motorcycle Trip
These pages will document our trip from San Jose, California
to Panama City, Panama.
The trip is planned for 6 weeks, using two identical BMW F650GS
single-cylinder 650cc motorcycles. One rider, David Pease, will
ride the entire distance; three other riders will ride different legs
of the trip in two-week "relays". The first leg (in blue on the
map) will be ridden by Richard Sobin, the second (in
red), by Mark Smith, and the final leg (in green)
will be ridden by Randal Burns.
(To see the next installment of our travel in Mexico, click here: Copper Canyon and Baja California.)
Here is a photo of one of the bikes outfitted for the trip (and still
clean):
The map below gives a rough idea of our planned route, with the three
riders' legs shown in different colors.
We are carrying SPOT satellite transceivers that broadcast our location
regularly to a service
that plots it in "real time" on a web page (no longer online).
The web page can show the last 7 days of travel, though to see any more
than the most recent 24 hours you must page forward using the page
numbers at the bottom of the left-hand column.
The photos we have posted are broken into sections:
Randal is keeping a delightful blog of the last third of the trip here.