MEXICO | Saturday, 30 May 2009 | Views [158] | Comments [2]
Oaxaca is a great city to enjoy some downtime, relaxing with our cycling friends Martin and Susy, checking out Monte Alban, wandering the markets and artesanias, the leafy ‘zocalo’ and working our way through some of the famous Oaxaquenan cuisine. ... Read more >
MEXICO | Tuesday, 12 May 2009 | Views [158] | Comments [3]
The days in Guadalajara with Nobu, Hiro and Ken fly past. They are captivated by the city with its climbing wall, cinema and skate boarding and decide to stay longer, while we get back in the saddle, wanting to get moving further east and southward ... Read more >
MEXICO | Friday, 10 Apr 2009 | Views [326] | Comments [6]
After nearly two months off the bike, we saddled up and rode out of warm and sticky Mazatlan where we had enjoyed a tranquil time with our amiga Chamely and her puppy ‘Blitz’. Mazatlan itself was a stark contrast to the place it had been during carnaval ... Read more >
MEXICO | Sunday, 8 Feb 2009 | Views [373] | Comments [9]
Sometimes things happen exactly at the right moment. For us this was meeting Vincent and Michel, two Swiss cyclists, who also started their expedition in Alaska in May, and were on their way to Argentina. Michel has CF, a serious illness that is affecting ... Read more >
MEXICO | Wednesday, 21 Jan 2009 | Views [530] | Comments [5]
It is a fine and sunny day in San Diego, the chickens are scratching in the yard, ‘the Casita’ (our home for the past week) is cleaned and bikes are loaded into the back of Merle’s pick-up truck. After much nervous anticipation..... it is time, let’s ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 1 Jan 2009 | Views [42]
During Christmas holidays we flew to San Francisco for a two week holiday with Caroline, alias Coenie, Anna’s best friend from the Netherlands.
Our week started off with a sightseeing tour of the city on the Hyde and Powell tram, an exhilarating ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 17 Dec 2008 | Views [672] | Comments [7]
Our entry into Las Vegas is great. Google maps instructs us the shortest route to our host, of which four miles are on 'the Strip', the epicenter of casino's. Along the way we see marriages in small wedding chapels and a red leather booted Elvis gives ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 2 Dec 2008 | Views [488] | Comments [2]
As we pushed on into the wind for the last 15 miles uphill to Bryce Canyon, Anna spots another cyclist riding up behind us. 'Could it be Wayne?', we spot the beard, the cap and the dark bags, 'it is!'. He had been pushing hard to catch us on the hill, ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 10 Nov 2008 | Views [372] | Comments [2]
It wouldn't be a stay in Moab without hitting the world famous trails and slickrock. We were lucky enough to have some local mtb guides in Nancy and Rachel who took us on an epic ride from the slickrock trail, up the hill nine miles to the Porcupine ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 26 Oct 2008 | Views [437] | Comments [4]
After the snowstorm passed, we left Jackson WY on a sunny but cold afternoon. We pushed untill after sunset, and found ourselves on a high plateau, the Green River Basin, the sagebrush covered in a thick blanket of snow. The temperature overnight dropped ... Read more >
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