Category: Chile

We set out shockingly late from our cabin (9:30am), because we knew we wouldn’t be able to check in to our new place very early, and predicted that we would have neither heat nor horseflies to beat. On our previous ride Rett hadn’t even needed to wear her net at any point, so our cautious…

Our ~US$55 room included breakfast, though when our hostess offered yesterday that it would/could be served at 7:30am, we hadn’t yet planned out today well enough to know if that would result in too late of a start, so we had been non-committal. By this morning, our plan was to get up, pack, and load…

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…