About the Adventure

Nick Civitello and myself (Ryan Bradburn) have decided to join forces to conquer the Pan-American Highway...or at least some close approximation. Though it would be great to become true lifetime adventurers and spend a couple years traveling from Alaska to Argentina, exploring every nook and cranny both hither and yon, neither of us feels that's within the realm of feasibility at this point in life. So instead, this will be mostly a driving trip. We're looking at taking three months to go from Anchorage, north to Deadhorse, then south all the way to Tierra del Fuego before heading up to Buenos Aires to ship the bikes and ourselves back home to Kansas City.

By no means definitive, this map is merely meant to be an outline. We prepared it prior to the trip. To see our progress thus far, check out the Track Us! page. Click the menu symbol in the upper-left corner to access layers, such as potential sights we'll see and capital cities.



We've had this trip on the radar since 2014, just after I learned of the existence of the Panamerican Highway on a Spanish-immersion trip to the lovely Oaxaca, Mexico. I had only recently seen The Long Way Round and The Long Way Down, which I still hold in high regard. We've taken our time over the past 4 years to learn about the trek, select stalwart steeds, and adequately prepare ourselves and our existences.

Time has been allotted to be away from work. We determined that the latest we could begin the trip was an 11 May departure from Anchorage, though we headed up to Alaska at the beginning of that week (7 May) to give ourselves some extra days right from the get-go. Much as we don't intend to hold fast to the route in the map above, we also don't intend to hold fast to the schedule below, though there are a few important dates, like beginning, Stahlratte, and end. Still, here's a list of locations, planned dates, and actual dates (so far):

Planned Date	Actual Date	Location	Notes
11 May	8 May	Anchorage, AK	Day 1: in the saddle, north-bound from Anchorage!
13 May	10 May	Deadhorse, AK	Day 3-4: Northernmost point of the Americas: Deadhorse / Prudhoe Bay
17 May	17 May	Dawson City, YT, Canada	Day 7: Cross into Canada and get ourselves a Sourtoe Cocktail.
25 May	25 May	Bozeman, MT, USA (Actual: Henry's Lake)	Day 15: Back in the USA, but only for a brief spell.
30 May	28 May	Chihuahua, Mexico	Day 20: Cross into Mexico and put some miles between ourselves and the border.
7 Jun	5 Jun	Guatemala	Day 28: CA-4 country
8 Jun	7 Jun	El Salvador	Day 29: CA-4 country
10 Jun	8 Jun	Honduras	Day 31: CA-4 country
11 Jun	12 Jun	Nicaragua	Day 32: CA-4 country
13 Jun	13 Jun	Costa Rica	Day 34
16 Jun	15 Jun	Panama	Day 37
17 Jun	19 Jun	Puerto de Carti, Panama	Day 38: Board the Stahlratte for a voyage through the San Blas Islands to Colombia.
22 Jun	22 Jun	Cartagena, Colombia	Day 43: Disembark from the Stahlratte onto South American soil.
28 Jun		Ecuador	Day 49
4 Jul		Peru	Day 55
16 Jul		Bolivia	Day 67
25 Jul		Chile	Day 76
30 Jul		Argentina	Day 81
8 Aug		Tierra del Fuego	Day 91-92: Southernmost point of the Americas: Tierra del Fuego / Ushuaia
14 Aug		Buenos Aires, Argentina	Day 96: Trip's end

If you're anywhere near our route or know of sites we should see, give us a holler!