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Cycling Patagonia: a South America bicycle touring video

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World Biking February 7, 2011March 4, 2011 Argentina, Chile, Patagonia, South America 4 Comments Read more

In Awe of Mother Nature

windy bicycle touring in argentina ruta 40

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

World Biking January 19, 2011December 31, 2016 Patagonia, South America, Tour Updates Read more

On the Beaten Path…and liking it!

argentina camping and bicycle touring

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,

World Biking December 30, 2010December 31, 2016 Argentina, South America, Tour Updates 2 Comments Read more

New Beginnings at the end of a Continent

bicycle touring in Argentina

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

World Biking December 19, 2010January 26, 2017 Argentina, Patagonia, South America, Tour Updates 9 Comments Read more

Why travel? Gauchito and other Argentine oddities

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

World Biking December 7, 2010March 1, 2017 Argentina, South America, Tour Updates 6 Comments Read more

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

World Biking November 29, 2010March 20, 2013 Argentina, Patagonia, South America, Tour Updates 8 Comments Read more

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

World Biking November 22, 2010March 20, 2013 Argentina, Patagonia, South America, Tour Updates 14 Comments Read more

A Change of Mood

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

World Biking November 13, 2010May 7, 2017 South America, Tour Updates, Uruguay 3 Comments Read more

Candombe cures another case of Bicycle Touring Burnout.

uruguay bicycle touring

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

World Biking November 1, 2010December 31, 2016 South America, Tour Updates, Uruguay 3 Comments Read more

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

World Biking October 23, 2010March 3, 2011 Paraguay, South America, Tour Updates 6 Comments Read more
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