Trip: the Fuego Project 2008 - 2010
There are [26] stories from my trip: the Fuego Project 2008 - 2010
COSTA RICA | Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009 | Views [108] | Comments [1]
La Cruz to Rio Sereno 12/10/09 to 3/11/09 - 952 km (total km’s 17700)
Costa Rica, Pura Vida One of the joys of bike touring is not always so much about the riding, but it’s about getting to out of the way places and experiencing nature.... Read more >
Tags: costa rica, cycling, wildlife, cycling friends, beach, turtles
NICARAGUA | Saturday, 24 Oct 2009 | Views [72] | Comments [4]
No story as yet, but some photos in the gallery http://journals.worldnomads.com/thefuegoproject/gallery/19475.aspx with a more detailed description than usual to give an idea of our time in Nicaragua. Enjoy!
Tags: nicaragua
HONDURAS | Friday, 2 Oct 2009 | Views [221] | Comments [3]
For months we’ve been looking forward to diving on Utila. Utila is one of the Bay Islands, in the Caribbean Sea, off the northern coast of Honduras. Also for months we have had our doubts about cycling in Honduras, because of political instability ... Read more >
Tags: honduras, utila, diving, cycling
GUATEMALA | Thursday, 1 Oct 2009 | Views [119] | Comments [2]
Flores to Punta Gorda 26/8/09 - 6/9/09 545 km
What kind of sound does a howler monkey make?... It’s 4am and we awoke to the sound of howler monkeys singing in chorus through the canopy of the jungle at the ruins of Tikal. It was a call ... Read more >
Tags: guatemala, belize, cycling, caribbean sea, tikal
GUATEMALA | Tuesday, 25 Aug 2009 | Views [310] | Comments [4]
9/8/09 - 20/8/09 Xela to Flores 445 km Well we did it, we finally left Xela after a few previous attempts to do so. It had been one of those places where no matter what you try to do, you may never leave. What started as a few weeks of Spanish ... Read more >
Tags: guatemala, cycling, highlands, caves
GUATEMALA | Tuesday, 7 Jul 2009 | Views [332]
Xela to Lago de Atitlan, our overland trekking adventure. Rina and Lior our fearless guides from Quetzaltrekkers, led us over the mountains, past a highland town called 'Alaska', through cloud forests, past highland villages, past treacherous landslides, ... Read more >
Tags: guatemala, volcanoes, trekking, colonial towns
MEXICO | Saturday, 30 May 2009 | Views [496] | Comments [3]
13/5/09 - 22/5/09 Oaxaca to San Cristobal 468 km 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 ... Read more >
Tags: mexico, oaxaca, cycling, food, mountains, sickness, san cristobal
MEXICO | Tuesday, 12 May 2009 | Views [387] | Comments [3]
13/4/09 - 7/5/09 Guadalajara to Oaxaca 1204 km 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, ... Read more >
Tags: mexico, cycling, volcanoes, swine flu, desert, cactus
MEXICO | Friday, 10 Apr 2009 | Views [611] | Comments [6]
30/3/09 - 7/4/09 Mazatlan to Guadalajara 534 km 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 ... Read more >
Tags: mexico, cycling, pacific coast, birds, wildlife, tequila, beaches, boat trips, volcanoes
MEXICO | Sunday, 8 Feb 2009 | Views [842] | Comments [9]
21/1/09 - 4/2/09 Guerrero Negro to La Paz 840 km 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.... Read more >
Tags: mexico, baja california, biking, whales, birds, wildlife, beaches, desert, cactus, cyclists
MEXICO | Wednesday, 21 Jan 2009 | Views [808] | Comments [5]
10/1/09 - 19/1/09 San Diego to Guerrero Negro 724km 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.... Read more >
Tags: mexico, great people, cycling, traffic, desert, cactus, dangers
USA | Thursday, 1 Jan 2009 | Views [156]
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 [1170] | 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 [693] | Comments [3]
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 [551] | 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 [575] | 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 >
USA | Saturday, 11 Oct 2008 | Views [917] | Comments [6]
With fresh inspiration for the journey ahead we followed the Trans-America trail south along the Bitteroot valley before crossing over a range to the east at Lost Trail Pass and into the Big Hole Valley. This was the same route the Adventure Cycling ... Read more >
Tags: usa, cycling, national parks, wildlife, bison, pronghorn, cycling friends, thermal features, big sky country, yellowstone
USA | Thursday, 25 Sep 2008 | Views [724]
After a chilly week tent bound with the flu in Banff, and spending time with friends, it was time for us to hit the road again with winter nipping at our heels and a lot of mountains between us and the desert country. As soon as we left Banff along ... Read more >
Tags: canada, usa, cycling, national parks, cycling friends, wildlife, hiking, montana, adventure cycling association
CANADA | Sunday, 7 Sep 2008 | Views [853] | Comments [12]
We said goodbye to Vancouver in style, cruising the harbor with Tas (Ali's former housemate) and Scarlett in their little yacht. It suddenly turned really hot for a few days, and we sweated our way up the Sea to Sky highway, from Vancouver to Squamish ... Read more >
Tags: canada, usa, icefields parkway, mountains, wildlife, glaciers, hiking, cycling friends
USA | Thursday, 14 Aug 2008 | Views [578] | Comments [4]
After the gas leak in Prince Rupert we were eventually moved to 'emergency' accomodation at midnight which meant a not so long sleep before an early morning ferry on our way to Vancouver Island. Tired heads we slept pretty well then i woke at 7am...aahhh! ... Read more >
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