Author: Clif & Susan
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BOom Bang a Bang 2
A hairpin bend, an oncoming car with nowhere to go, and a dying clutch that won’t accelerate out of trouble — the bike goes down, Susan’s airbag vest fires, and Clif ends up rolling downhill like Humpty Dumpty.
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BOom Bang a Bang
A wrong turn at a Y-junction sends the heavily loaded bike onto a crumbling 45-degree mountain track with no way to stop — too steep to brake, too far to turn back.
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Pura Vida
Lunch with an unexpected backdrop: a genuine C-123 cargo plane tied to the 1986 Iran-Contra affair — CIA arms smuggling, Oliver North, and a Tom Cruise movie, all sitting quietly beside a Costa Rican beach.
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Hola Costa Rica
A chaotic dawn dash across the Panama-Costa Rica border — a fake ‘official’ who pockets a $2 tip, a forgotten fumigation, and a near miss with Susan almost walking through customs in her bra.
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Big Dog Sees The Light
36C heat and no shoulder to stop on — Susan’s vision narrows to white light on the back of the bike before Clif can finally pull over for water and cheap ice cream.
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Standing On The Shoulders Of Evolution
After four fraught days chasing customs agents when the bike got stuck in Istanbul, they finally reach Panama — birthplace, as it turns out, of the land bridge that helped make human evolution possible.
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Never Ever
Susan has said ‘never ever again’ after Buenos Aires, St John’s, Sydney, and San Diego — and here she is anyway, back on the bike in Panama, signed up for 11,500 miles all the way to Anchorage.
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Act V – The Americas, Panama to Alaska
Act V begins: Panama to Alaska, 11,500 miles, one BOom Boom vest, and a ‘never ever’ Susan who’s back on the bike anyway.