Category: Bike Tour

A headwind flowing down from the mountains had started up yesterday afternoon, which we’ve noticed is a bit of a standard pattern. What’s not standard is it continuing through the night (with gusts flapping the tent), and still going in the morning. Maybe it would take us three days to get to the tunnel? As…

At breakfast, served by our hosts at Los Capulies (excellent!), we were surprised to see another couple at a table, since it had felt like we were the only ones spending the night. Even more surprising was that she was clearly wearing padded bike shorts! Christina and Matthias are from Austria, and had just completed…

Finally we begin bike touring in Peru! Eva of course stopped by to see us off as we were loading up the bikes, and for the first time I think she really understood this crazy thing that we’ve been doing for nearly four years. It was also very satisfying to have a 15-minute conversation entirely…

Our stay in Huaraz has now exceeded a month, which is more than twice as long as we originally intended. And while I won’t say that we’re glad that Rett’s bike crash forced us to stay here longer, we’re at least glad that this was the place where we spent that extra time. It’s really…

Day 26: Laguna 531 We’ve ascended to glacial lakes in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca mountain range by a couple of different methods: group tours (Paron, 69) and completely-independent bike-and-hike (Churup). Our fourth (and likely final) ascent, to Laguna 513, was a bit different. For some reason, there is no high-volume infrastructure for funneling tourists to Laguna…