Bikepacking, Bicycle Touring and Travel
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 →
This is our last night in Bogotá. Yesterday we went for a really nice honeymoon dinner and today we spent four hours in a spa. Come tomorrow morning, we will be pedaling 90lb bikes up a mountain (or trying to anyway). Bogotá shuts down vehicle traffic on Sundays so this is the perfect day to... Continue Reading →
Liv and I had been fairly busy in the lead up to this trip. She spent the last couple of months working hard on her film 'Nite Ride' and screened it for cast and crew on November 30, just three days before we left for Colombia. A couple weeks prior to that we got married... Continue Reading →
Quick breakdown of the bike and everything packed on it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq2JxYUS-Zg
Today was the day to go through tools and spares. Tools and spares are heavy, but necessary. I have four sets of spare brake pads for each bike, which I hope is way overkill, but I freaked out after the BC trip this past summer when Olivia went through a set of new-ish pads in... Continue Reading →
Things are slowly starting to come together. I ordered a few waterproof pouches for items such as maps, to put our cell phones in if we get caught in a down pour, and for our first aid kit. The waterproof pouches I had been using are made by aLOKSAK, but the closure systems had long... Continue Reading →
It's November and I have a lot to do! I'm getting married in a week and a half and then jet setting off to Colombia for the start of a South American adventure with my partner. Our plan is to take our bicycles with us, build them when we get to our AirBNB in Bogota,... Continue Reading →
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