by admin | Apr 7, 2017 | Cycling adventures, Cycling the Andes
Greetings from Ushuaia: ‘fin del mundo’ – the end of the world! The next land mass from here is Antarctica, and we don’t fancy going there (not yet at least). After 9,000 kilometres travelled, three countries, ten border crossings and over 103,000...
by admin | Feb 22, 2017 | Cycling adventures, Cycling the Andes
Today we had our first crash. We are heading for the Chilean town of Puerto Montt on our fifth day since leaving San Martin de los Andes, and it is wet, wet, wet. As Marti Pellow so beautifully put it: ‘I feel it in fingers, I feel it in my toes…’ except,...
by admin | Feb 21, 2017 | Cycling adventures, Cycling the Andes
Today was all about Bettina. We’ve just left a lunchtime break on an Argentinian lake shore. Today it isn’t raining, which is an unexpected treat given the hail storm of yesterday. We are gunning it along the road, using the wind and warm air to dry our pants and...
by admin | Feb 20, 2017 | Cycling adventures, Cycling the Andes
We pedal out of the alpine-chic ski bum town of San Martin de Los Andes at 1pm. We exchange a small hi-five in the supermarket carpark on the way out, congratulating ourselves for such an ‘early’ departure. Usually, we aim to leave towns at 10am and roll out at 4pm,...
by admin | Feb 18, 2017 | Cycling adventures, Cycling the Andes
My alarm goes at 5am and I am wrenched from my dreams to the present. Where am I? I think. Why (oh why) is Birdy’s Skinny Love (my longstanding alarm song of choice) going off at this UNGODLY hour? And then I remember… The previous day had been full of all...
