We’re convinced this desert has no end. We are stuck in a Groundhog Day of cycling. Every day we wake up and it’s the same thing; desert and a blasting headwind. We did not encounter any towns today. The few buildings we came across seem to be abandoned. We suspect the zombie apocalypse has started. Everyone […]
Moof!
The past few days have been a particularly bad stretch of road with horrendous winds. The winds were so strong that besides being physically knocked over, I was getting pelted by gravel. Gravel. Not sand, not pebbles or very small rocks that float, but pointy-edged gravel. My bike was issuing a chorus of “pings and […]
Not a Happy Camper
The bikes are heavy. Wrestling mine over the washboard surface of the road and through the sand is not my idea of a pleasurable ride. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. The plans to return to the States from Lima were delayed. After our two pannier excursion on the Cordillera Blanca, Punta Olimpica, and Lagunas de […]
Dogs
Scott had his rant on dogs. Now this is mine. This trip is causing me to develop a certain dislike for dogs. There’s something about a bike that makes an otherwise calm dog, lose its mind. Every house has at least one dog and then there are countless feral dogs in town (they could use a Bob […]
On Cities
It took us a few miles to get out of the congestion of Huánuco. Riding through a sea of 3-wheeled tuk-tuk taxies, I watched as they passed within inches of the panniers. This used to freak me out, the mayhem of unfamiliar cities. After a year and a half of being out on the road I’ve […]