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Cycling Central Asia: So Many Choices!
The Good Ole' Days I hate having choices. A decade ago, when we first began touring through Africa, route planning was far more clear-cut. Studying our Michelin Africa map usually turned up just one possible route, perhaps two options in
Changing Continents: Biking Central Asia at Long Last
Bye-Bye New York! Hello Kazakhstan! Changing Continents There’s something disconcerting about jetting half way around the world by plane when you’re more accustomed to rolling slowly across continents. Not that the flight between New York and Kazakhstan was all that
Down to the Last Drop in the Arizona Desert
I was down to my last half liter of water. Bumping along a rough track in the Arizona desert, this lack of H2o was some cause for distress. We ought to be passing a ranch about now. But where was
Mount Lemmon: A 500 Kilometer Detour up Arizona’s Most Thrilling Climb
Most cyclists dream of biking through massive mountain ranges. The Carreterra Austral in the Andes, the Leh-Manali road through the Indian Himalayas and Central Asia’s Pamir Highway consistently top the lists of favorite cycling spots. Desert cycling rarely makes the
Random Saddle Tales
Biking the Great Divide: Colorado
After the vast empty spaces and rolling hills of Wyoming’s Great Basin, we were ready to test our mettle on some big mountains. Colorado called. The Cowboy State is home to the Great Divide’s most momentous climb: Indiana Pass (11,913
Flooding and other Assorted Fun
Flooding. We hadn’t expected it in on the Puna. But this was a La niña year, said the locals. Clima loco. Crazy weather. In this part of Northern Argentina, undulating Ruta 40 and the other minor roads we bounced along
Biking Brazil- an adventure fix
“Which way now?” “I dunno.” The road suddenly split into two and we were stumped. One narrow dusty track continued straight on. The other, the more travelled of the two judging from the tire tracks, veered off to the right.
Four Rivers Ride
4 Rivers Bicycle Trail from Seoul to Busan I followed the link and discovered a bike trail linking Busan (where we’d arrived on the ferry from Japan) to Seoul (where we needed to get to in order to sort
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