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In Awe of Mother Nature
If January is anything to go by, our 2011 promises to be full of adventure, amazing beauty and struggles against nature. The New Year began with a stand-off against the dreaded RUTA 40. This desolate stretch of road is nothing
On the Beaten Path…and liking it!
10,000 kilometers and six months biking South America without seeing a single cyclist. Now we’re surrounded by seven of them hanging out in the same campground In Calafate, Argentina. Patagonia is swarming with cyclists. If there’s a bicycle touring mecca,
New Beginnings at the end of a Continent
The ferocious Patagonian winds fought hard to keep us from reaching Tierra del Fuego. They tossed us about, knocked us off our bikes, attacked us from all sides. They humbled us. They angered us. They brought us to tears. But
Why travel? Gauchito and other Argentine oddities
We travel because we’re bored with the familiar. We’re fed up with spotting a Starbucks on every street corner. We can’t take another day of banal office gossip around the photo copier. We’re tired of seeing the same old big
The serendipity of cycling
Wonderful things happen when we open ourselves up to serendipity and chance. Embracing the out-of-the-ordinary often lands us is the most amazing of situations. And so it was last Friday evening on Argentina’s Ruta 3. The windiest road on the
Pedaling to the end of the world
Patagonia at last! Gone are the rolling hills and pine trees, the small towns with their delicious factura-filled bakeries and quiet parks. Patagonia is a windswept land of wide-open spaces, hardy sheep and long, lonely roads. The glaciers and lakes
A Change of Mood
Despondency is dead. At least for the moment. Bicycle touring has its ups and downs and that feeling of ‘I love life on the road,’ has returned. Not sure how we lost it in the first place, but now that
Candombe cures another case of Bicycle Touring Burnout.
Sometimes you just luck out and end up at the right place at the right time. So it was last Sunday evening in Paysandu, when we stumbled across a group of Candombe musicians rehearsing for the upcoming Carnival celebrations.Candombe originated
Bicycle Touring by Numbers
Total Kilometers Cycled: 84,944 Current Location: Paysandu, Uruguay On the Road: 4 years, 4 months, 17 days A look back at what we’ve been up to since the last update way back in September. 4 Number of border crossings. Paraguay