Category: Bike Tour

Once again we were up and out early, tiptoeing past Lee’s tent before 7:30am. Even though we only had 21 miles to ride, and were heading for an AirBNB (thus re-creating the problem of arriving at our tiny-town destination hours before check-in), we had a big pass to climb and felt that even with the…

Even though we had a proposed solution for Rett’s instinctive reaction to horsefly attacks, we hadn’t actually tested it, so we again tried to use the time of day to minimize their combative interactions. But we were slightly-more relaxed than yesterday, meaning we got up at 5am, and were rolling out a little after 7am.…

“We’re getting up at midnight to start riding again”, Rett had declared yesterday afternoon at the height of the horsefly assault. Adhering to an activity cycle unaligned with your predators is a time-tested evolutionary adaptation, and I agreed that is was likely to be our most-effective solution too. We didn’t go quite as extreme as…

The “bimodal” ferry from Hornopiren to Caleta Gonzalo is a much bigger deal than the ~40 minute ferry we took on our first day on the Carretera Austral. It’s an hours-long trip, with a road segment sandwiched between two water segments, runs once a day (at least for the version that takes bikes) and requires…

Somehow our room managed to cool down enough relatively quickly, allowing us to get a good night’s sleep (even though Rett and Lamby were far away in a whole separate bed!) We emerged into a cooler, cloudier day, which was good because we hit some hills with double-digit grades at the beginning, forcing Rett to…