USA | Monday, 7 Sep 2015 | Views [972]
All the locals tell us winter came early. It was summer just two weeks ago! Well, it's pretty obvious! Rain, snow, cold...August, Winter in Alaska!
We are now in Canada, the Yukon and we are in awe about the free camping facilities provided ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 1 Sep 2015 | Views [1064]
First time we met was right before Cusco, Peru in September 2013. They were riding north - we went south. We all had stopped at some ruins for lunch going in opposite directions and then wound up spending the night...couldn't stop talking! We let them ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 23 Aug 2015 | Views [1011]
....and our super host family called us with the weather report about 38 miles out of town: " Big hail (he reported the size of ice pieces falling from the sky, but it escaped my memory) in the Matanuska Valley, temperatures are dropping. "How about ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 23 Aug 2015 | Views [996]
We assembled the bikes about 10pm at the airport in company of a stuffed brown bear and a goat.
Last thing was to pump up my rear tire. James did the honers while I was futzing with my luggage and then there was a gun shot ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 17 Aug 2015 | Views [948]
Thoughts on the way to Anchorage:
All the good byes are breaking my heart and yet I feel the excitement like a b'day or a wedding day or like a funeral I get to be present at my own death.
I realize - just looking at the young travelers at ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 17 Aug 2015 | Photo Gallery
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ARGENTINA | Monday, 17 Aug 2015 | Views [920]
San Francisco is the next destination. No need to bore you with the details, the delayed flight, the changes. Even leaving Marisa's house required some creativity and we wound up taking two cars since the taxi couldn't fit the bike boxes, the luggage ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 17 Aug 2015 | Photo Gallery
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ARGENTINA | Tuesday, 2 Sep 2014 | Views [1393]
Our last station in South America before heading home. We are staying with Marisa in her tiny little apartment and we got invited to dine with her family where we meet old and young mixed in harmony and respect. I learn a lot from these latino families.... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Saturday, 12 Jul 2014 | Views [1319]
The time has come, the time is now....we are heading back north on a bus. There were moments in time when I was hurting on the bike. I looked longingly at one of those big touristy busses (or any bus for that matter), thinking how wonderful it would ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Wednesday, 21 May 2014 | Views [1667]
The friendly/funny young men who carried our bikes to the basement last night were no where to be seen the next morning and the person behind the desk gave us a look like: "you are kidding me, right?" when we ask for help to get our bikes out of there.... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Saturday, 26 Apr 2014 | Views [1494]
(18th-22nd of February) With a strong Mt bike rim on the rear I felt confident again riding my heavy set Gurly through the next and last phase of this journey. We camped at the border to Chile..there is this tiny little "pizza pie" corner of Chile we ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Saturday, 26 Apr 2014 | Views [1986]
We met Sean from Wales who entertained us immensely with his dry humor underlined by his heavy accent. He was clearly a minimalist. With very little gear he was cycling - I think it was three month -around the southern parts of Chile and Argentina. He ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Saturday, 26 Apr 2014 | Views [2139]
Not just a resting place, but the beginning of pavement! Highly overpriced......Better: Everything is expensive, of course! How could it not be! We are at the chopped up coast of Chile - way down at the bottom. Far away from the world as we know it. ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Saturday, 26 Apr 2014 | Views [2633]
Now off to the 7km single trek we heard so much about.
You can never be fully prepared for what is to come, but - for me- it's good to inform myself as much as I can! I really don't quite get when people are afraid to see pictures of what is to come ... Read more >
CHILE | Saturday, 26 Apr 2014 | Views [1392]
They loaded more and more bicycles on that ferry - there were two ferries and this was the cheaper version. That boat will make it, but I actually had to convince myself...it looked old, very old and creaky/cranky. Our cheerful captain kept disappearing ... Read more >
CHILE | Friday, 25 Apr 2014 | Views [1245]
We set out in a leisurely manner - O'Higgins (saying it out loud in a british sort of way is kind of fun....try it!). The sun was out and what looked like a drowning world only yesterday was looking new and hopeful this morning on February 7th. We reached ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Sunday, 16 Mar 2014 | Photo Gallery
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CHILE | Sunday, 16 Mar 2014 | Views [1020]
February 6th ...... pedaling loaded with yummy, yummy bread- there were two somewhat rough, steep climbs and then smooth sailing....until O'Higgins we were told. What is a steep climb, anyways? Anything different from what I haven't done already? I hardly ... Read more >
CHILE | Sunday, 16 Mar 2014 | Views [1309]
February 5th Can't really call any riding on the C. Austral smooth, BUT: We reached the ferry dock in the evening and had missed the last one at 6pm by 45 minutes (we weren't really trying..). We had ridden part way with another french couple on ... Read more >
CHILE | Sunday, 16 Mar 2014 | Views [2245]
Looking forward to rest in Cochrane, but the only camp ground was the back yard of a stingy woman. The clouds had caught up, the river Baker lost its color and all became grey around us while the pouring rain chased us into the metal shelter of a kitchen ... Read more >
CHILE | Sunday, 16 Mar 2014 | Views [994]
January 30th 2014
A big wood stove in the middle of the dining room - bedrooms upstairs with an overheated bathroom. Hot soup with chunks of meat and three smiling women serving us tea after serving us lunch. Quiet, clean and plenty to eat - feeling ... Read more >
CHILE | Thursday, 27 Feb 2014 | Views [1163]
A day of rain is enough and I feel like quitting again....constant up and down. Like a manic/depressive person - bipolar. The road has a washboard pattern since we hit the dirt again, the wind has changed to headwinds for a while and the hills got steep.... Read more >
CHILE | Thursday, 27 Feb 2014 | Views [962]
Continuing on the C. Austral. Coyhaique ( Monday 17th of January and the last week of the month)
We left our expensive, but comfy, clean, lovely shelter in good weather and hope for a few days rest from the moody weather god and we were granted a ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Tuesday, 25 Feb 2014 | Views [1078]
Sorry I had no updates for a while. The C. Austral got so rough and I got reckless enough to bounce over those rocks in the road in such a fearless manner that my iPad got squeezed and turned itself on during riding. The keyboard punched in random numbers ... Read more >
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