Chad Horton and Rose Padilla have been exploring South America by motorcycle for years now.

With no real agenda or direction, they sort of roam from one country to another,

exploring scenery and experiencing culture, except where they're prohibited by law.

That's another story, though.

Recently they took on what could only be considered or described as an adventure's route,

far off the beaten path, a route that would bisect the Amazon jungle from east

to west going through some of the most remote and unfrequited, at least by outsiders,

areas of the Amazon. What they didn't count on was that the Amazon was

experiencing a 125 year drought that would affect their entire route. Where

there was water, there's now mud, and where there was mud there's now mud and where there was mud there's now dust.

And what they couldn't have known was that some of the boats they were told could

carry their motorcycle would not,

while others would unload them far from land on the muddy bottom of that dying river,

and one boat's captain would actually hijack their motorcycle deep in the Amazon jungle.

An incredible story of high adventure that Chad and Rose say they are pleased that they did,

but they would never do again, and they certainly would not recommend it.

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