Category: Bike Tour

Like Cusco, Puno has a multi-modal road corridor built within just the last couple years, though instead of running alongside the airport like in Cusco, it runs along the shore of Lake Titicaca, effectively a brand-new “Lake Shore Drive”. That meant it was even easier getting out of Peru’s 21st-biggest city than it was getting…

Today would be the real test of the Juliaca-avoiding route that we and our temporary Italian friends were attempting. Although we’d had a big hill to climb after we left the main highway yesterday, it was a relatively-short section mileage-wise, while today the entire route would be “off the (car) beaten track”, including a 10-mile…

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…

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…

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…