Breakfast is included at Michaela and Jaime’s AirBNB (one of the vanishingly-rare places for which the 2nd “B” is still meaningful!), and all the reviews said it was amazing. But none described any details: would it be sufficient for bike tourers? Would it be served early enough for us to get on the road when… Read more…

Our hunt for breakfast was at least as difficult as our hunt for dinner had been last night. While I love being back in rural, small-town Peru, Cusco and its surroundings certainly spoiled us with restaurants with predictable, published hours, and reasonably-familiar foods. The biggest obstacle this morning was Rett’s need for coffee; certainly there… Read more…

When I carried our panniers down from our 3rd-floor AirBNB unit, I was surprised to see two people with loaded bicycles at the sidewalk entrance. Had they just arrived? No, they were loading up and preparing to leave just like us, having stayed in another one of our host’s units. Huh! It just seemed like… Read more…

Last night our host asked what time we would be leaving in the morning, which I thought was a little strange because we would be capable of exiting the hotel on our own at any time (this is not always the case in Peru! And entering this property required ringing the bell and having someone… Read more…

Prior to our 17 nights in Cusco, we had done a few days of riding through the Sacred Valley, but before that we’d had another 16 nights off the bikes in Ollantaytambo. So it’s really been five weeks without “serious” bike riding, and also while living in relative luxury. Even four years and a dozen… Read more…

Week 2.5 Despite two weeks in Cusco, we were still having a challenging and stressful time deciding where we wanted to go next, and how we wanted to get there. Having barely moved south in the last month, it would now be completely impossible to make it to Patagonia during its summer season under our… Read more…