Back safely at Toby and Saras Ellen had to get some dental work done and I had been putting off some work on Maya until we had the right place and services, Huanuco is it.
The town square
The view from opposite their home, see the hill picture on their B&B site
I wanted to get the Dr Bean board into our fuel pump, redo the mudflap which had been attacked and torn, clean out indicators from mud (the insides), clean air filters etc so just a big tidy up round.
The board was easy done however the guy did a less than ideal job on one soldered joint so we got that sorted the following morning, all good.
For a while I have been wanting to fit a bigger foot plate on the side stand and this was also accomplished $6 Soles (about $2 dollars), my exhaust baffle I had extended too $5 Soles (about $1.70 dollars), all in all my entire list of goodies to sort was sorted with a little local help from Toby.
Ellen and Sara did the icecream thing ... dunno how I missed this out
A free Plug Here,
Now Toby and Sara are volunteer workers and spend much of their time helping the community for no gain for themselves other than satisfaction so our hat is off to them big time.
Toby runs Around The Block moto tours and has a selection of machines from 250 to 650, both touring capable with KLR650s and offroad capable with the XR250s and XR650L .
We stayed at their B&B for a week and enjoyed ourselves although I was completely set up on a board game coming last .... hmmmm
Tobys site is
http://www.aroundtheblockmotoadventures.com/
...and their B&B is
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1835398?s=9669
Wonna find em on your GPS, this will take you to the front door
We had hearty breakfasts, comfy bed, REAL hot water, wifi that is probably the fastest we have had in Peru, that was the paid part.
The non paid part is local knowledge from Toby and Sara, stuff you don’t get on GPS and maps.
With Tobys local knowledge we got Maya sorted (as noted above) and Ellen got her dental work done, done well and very economical.
Now Huanuco itself it not a total tourist town but has great shops and services, it is also close to Lima if you are flying in to start a trip or if you are lucky enough to be RTWing their place is a great stop over to get parts ordered etc, Toby can source stuff as he spent most of his childhood growing up in Peru and knows the locale, also speaking fluently in the local tongue cannot be matched for getting stuff sorted and the "not what ya know but who ya know" plays a huge part.
Huanuco is also a great gateway to the Amazonas to the east, the Huascaran National Park just north and of course south to Cusco and Machu Picchu so pretty well placed centrally, all in all for RTW travellers they have a great place stop, sort out and breath, sort our any moto stuff with a lock up garage and undercover place to work...ouwh and they are just good honest people helping ADVers and Hubbers alike.
I have just realized that all "us" photos are on their camera, so will have to get these .. that is an epic fail on our part!!
Leaving Huanuco we headed off again with good advice from Toby (well sorta ... it snowed
), onto harass some other unsuspecting people 
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