Bikepacking, Bicycle Touring and Travel
Hi everyone! I know it's been a while since you have heard from me. A lot has happened since Olivia and I returned from South America back in June 2019. I hope you all are safe and healthy in these uncertain times. I have spent months picking away at the footage I took while in... Continue Reading →
Crossing into Peru, the roads immediately got better. No more rutted gravel and steep 20% inclines, but a paved, nice and level ride to the town of Namballe. It was a small town with a few shops and a hostel, and it was hot, but we needed the rest after the dash to the border.... Continue Reading →
We stayed longer than we expected in Cuenca. Thankfully, we rented a cozy AirBnB for a couple of weeks.Our tires had pretty much worn out after 3,000km of hard riding with a load of 15 kilograms over the last five months. Every morning we would come out to see tiny pin prick leaks where the... Continue Reading →
After returning from the Galapagos we headed back to Tumbaco and the Casa de Ciclista where our bikes were waiting for us. Getting back on the road after time off is always a great feeling. Hopping back on the Trans Ecuador Mountain Bike Route, we took dirt and cobblestone roads south towards Cotopaxi and Quilotoa.... Continue Reading →
We crossed into Ecuador on February 28, just a few days before our Colombian Visas expired. We stopped in Tulcán, the town just over the border from Colombia for our first taste of Ecuador. There seemed to be a little bit more English spoken here in comparison to Colombia and the currency used is the... Continue Reading →
Olivia and I are almost ready to cross into Ecuador. Our Colombian Visas are up on March 3, so we're looking to cross by the end of this week. We have had to take a couple of busses to make this happen since we were so far from the border. We did cycle from Medellín... Continue Reading →
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 →
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