Grilling.

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With a headwind?  Sort of.  When it hits the 90s out there, or more, it's like driving, actually though, with a tailwind.  In the winter is when headwinds are faced.  The roasts got there first check, and turn, twenty minutes in.  And... they... are cooking fast.  To be honest, after this next twenty minutes, and  final turn, I will probably cut the dampers and let them finish in there for another twenty minutes.  The smells...  Oh, I do love meats grilling, or cooking rightly in just about any way.

While waking, I started thinking about other ways to get to Argentina, or Ecuador, or else.  Currently not possible, completely, by road.  Not all the way down anyway.  But, driving?  Motorcycling?  The problems with any of those is... I suspect you have to have the covid vax before they would let you in.  No go.  Further, there isn't a road between Panama and Columbia.  Even if they started that today, and that is very unlikely, it would take ten, twenty, thirty years? to complete.  It won't be easy or fast.  More, there is no fairy around the Darian Gap (the area between north and south).

Oh, some have gotten through there.  With extreme 4x4s, and on bikes.  But... it looks to take months, years maybe, to get through that 60 miles.  IF the drug dealers, militants, tribals, or fauna, don't get you.  And that is a distinct possibility.  No, especially solo.  No.  The other option would be to drive down there, and send the bike or vehicle by cargo ship to the next possible destination in South America.  Again, for now, the limit would be the vax.

No hurry, but... the idea is there.  I would still need cash, and time.  To buy a bike and learn how to ride.  And, maybe, to buy a bigger better bike for the actual trip, if necessary.  One thing I really want to sort out, though, is gas.  I don't want a bike which can only do in the two hundred mile range.  That... is probably cutting it short, in some areas.  Not sure it is possible, but a bike which could get more into the three or four hundred mile range is what I would really want.  Again, I'm not even sure they do, or practically can, make a bike with that kind of range.

On the highway, maybe.  But for offroading?  The added weight, and change to the trim, would make, say, ten gallons of fuel a challenge.  I did see a motorcycle, where they had the main tank, and an auxiliary tank back and lower on the bike.  Which both adjusted for weight, and trim, a bit.  But, you have to be aware, and know to start the pump when the main tank is nearly half empty.  Not sure, perhaps there are indicator lights?  Even that one... I'm not sure what the mileage is.  I would like something like that, with, say, 15 gallons total, on a more medium sized bike.  Some of the medium bikes get nearly 50 mpg, lets say 47... so... 47 x 15 = 705 miles?  That... would work!  The problem is, I am not sure a medium bike would swing that long of a road trip, practically, with my weight.  Nor would it get that kind of mileage, for certain.  But...  it's an idea to potentially play with.

Crazy.  But... that's... I think... how it goes.  Besides, unless things change, just getting through the countries isn't possible without a vax, or at least a recent pcr test.  But, given the fiction of the pcr test, just taking one is a risk.  Once labeled as having 'covid'?  You may be done, even in America, for a very long time.  Who knows what they are still doing, what sort of tracking, etc.  As well, I have that they may well use the pcr to administer the vax.  Without your knowing, or willful acceptance.  No, no testing.  They have proven they can't be trusted.

Still, I can dream.  Well... the roasts should be read for a final turn and last heating with the grill closed up.  Later.