Gone Fishin' Follow your dreams

An awesome bike trip.  My transport picked me and my bike up at my lodging and carried us out into the little pueblo of Pampas de Hospital.  I have no idea about the hospoital part as it was difficult to even find the badly need pharmacy.  YES,YES I crashed.  An "exceso de velocidad" as the say here.  All is well, just a flesh wound, kinda.  My guide and I left from his house on our bikes.  Through the small town, past the farms and banana fields and into the reserva.  My guide said that it had been about 10 years since he had been on a bike last.  He proved that fact as later I had to repair his brakes and teach him how to shift.  The ACTUAL guide that leads these trips was in Lima on a family emergency.  He was kind enough to organize this trip for me from long distance and at a discounted price.  Earlier in the morning our porter left with his loaded burro.  He met us about half way into the reserva for a snack break at El Mirador, a great lookout point.  The route from town started on dirt roads that turned into what we may call a carriage road.  Once we got to the reserva entrance it was all single track BABY!  Amazing views and great trail.  Nothing crazy to jump or ride off of, but hard packed winding, ups and downs single track that basically followed the outline of the mountain.  We spent the night at a Biological Station.  The ranger was really glad to see us as he had been there alone for days.  Also, we brought fresh food.  The rangers have a 15 day on duty followed by several days off.  There are few people/tourists that make it that deep into the reserva.  After a refreshing bath in the almost drink-abley clean river our porter showed up and cook us dinner.  The next day the ranger took us for a short walk.  On most days it is possible to spot large monkies.  I did not see a monkey but I did spot one of the reserva´s beautiful birds. They local name is Mock Mock.  It moves it´s tail back and forth like a grandfather clock.  A quick lunch and then we headed back to town.  The trails were even better on the way out, which would explain my little accident.  I won´t go into the gorry details.  There are much more biking possibilities in this area.  The owner of the agency I used has plans to keep up with the damage the annual rains bring in order to offer his biking fanatic clients a good variety of trails.  My team was great.