Author: neil

We try to avoid calling this thing we’re doing a “bike tour”, since we spend so much less time actually riding our bikes than that term implies. But even for us, sixteen days between significant rides is a rarity only exceeded by our time off in Redlands, CA while Rett’s back was healing. Luckily much…

Part 2 Day 2 Now off the island, we started our transition back to unhealthy eating by extracting the maximum value from the included breakfast buffet at our fancy hotel. Then we spent much of the morning rearranging the contents of our bags to get them back to bike-touring mode rather than the kayak-touring mode…

Our island camping has reached its end, but we still had a 7-mile morning paddle to accomplish. The final leg would take us back to the beach we launched from, to close the loop on our circumnavigation of Islas Espiritu Santo y Partida. Although our kayaking arrangement had worked fairly well yesterday, it must have…

After yesterday’s 9-mile kayak push, we’d get an easier day, right? Wrong, we’re upping it to 11 miles, transiting nearly the entire eastern side of Isla Espiritu Santo from north to south. But after yesterday’s paddle proved the imbalance we all expected, and we would need to bring up our lower-than-average group speed to complete…

Making sure that our slowest kayakers are paired with someone else in a tandem kayak is a key to moving forward efficiently as a group. The tour company doesn’t assign people to specific kayaks, or guarantee tandems or singles, but rather, leaves it a bit to the group to work out the best configuration, and…