After arriving in San Gil, we took a few days off to relax. We visited a lagoon, I ate a Subway sandwich, and we went white water rafting. It was a nice break but we really wanted to get to Cartagena, the old port city on the Carribean. We cycled on asphalt up to Bucaramanga... Continue Reading →

It's taken a lot longer that expected. Our previous riding experience back in Canada had us doing 60-80 kilometers a day without much problem. But this isn't Canada, this is the Colombian Andes, and in the Colombian Andes we regularly eclipse 3,000m only to drop back down under 2,000m, every single day. By day 14... Continue Reading →

We have made our way back into the mountains following jeep tracks that criss cross the country side. Any direction we wanted to go, including going back to the main highway, would require us to summit a mountain. The road to Chita was our hardest day by far with no exception. It wasn't the most... Continue Reading →

When you look at a map, the distance between Bogotá and Villa de Leyva is not that far. A couple of centimeters maybe. It took us six days to cycle that 190km or so with some difficult. This first week we were supposed to take it easy, get into the groove of cycle touring, get... Continue Reading →

Wouldn't be an adventure without adversity I guess. Our first day on Sunday December 9 started off well enough leaving Bogotá. Thousands of cyclists were out on the streets and we were able to join them for about 10km as we headed north through the city. After that we turned East to climb up and... Continue Reading →