16th – 17th February Distance – 124km Total distance – 686km Day 10 El Rosario was a good centre for us to make a pit stop; good hotel and restaurant so we could catch up and clean up. The plan from here is to ride down the main road and catch up time. With 15 […]
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Nueva Odisea – Rosario…feeling cactus!
14th – 13th February Distance – 80km Total Distance – 562km Day 8 It was great to wake to the sounds of waves breaking on the beach behind us. We returned to Nuevo Odisea to stock up for what was to be a challenging two day ride through high back country tracks through the renowned […]
Ojos Negros to Ejido Erendira
10th/11th February Distance – 127km Total Distance – 338.4km We hadn’t been able to get or BGAN satellite device to work, despite understanding how to work it, and WiFi in Ojos Negros was poor and intermittent. Eventually I managed to get an email through to Ground Control from whom I had hired it, and it […]
A Challenging Start
San Diego – Tecate – Ojos Negros 7th – 9th February Total Distance 202km It took longer that we thought to make a start, mainly because it was a major jigsaw puzzle to work out how to pack everything into all the various bags and ensure they are balanced on our bikes. It was midday […]
Breaking the Cycle Greenland… never mind the weather
The Nordlandair flight from Akureyri, Iceland’s northerly capital, just below the Arctic Circle, to Constable Point in Northeast Greenland, about 71 degrees N, was spectacular. The Greenland coast was fringed by kilometres of fragmenting sea ice, gradually dispersing into the North Atlantic.
