Category: Bike Tour

Despite our 13,000 ft. wild camp being slightly-warmer than our previous 14-15,000 ft. camps, it was still far from “warm”, with the temperature dropping to 36°F by bedtime last night, and apparently down to 32°F when I got out of the tent at 6am (the thermometer inside the tent read 43°F in our still-windless shelter).…

Rett’s intestines continued to settle overnight, but she was still nowhere near healthy enough to ride on from Huanta. But she also wanted to reach the AirBNB we’d booked for three nights in the big city of Ayacucho, and Andrew and his family had suggested that they might be able to take us there just…

We’d had an AirBNB booked last night in the decent-sized city of Huanta, and then another, for three nights, in the much bigger city of Ayacucho. Rett’s illness meant that we’d obviously cancelled Huanta, and our next goal was to see if we could manage some sort of transport to Ayacucho, because Rett figured she…

When we got rolling at 6:30am a couple mornings ago, our bikes were simply sitting on a patio under our hotel room, and even if the external doors were closed, I knew we’d be able to open them on our own to “escape” (it turned out our hostess was up and cleaning and had opened…

The whole concept of yesterday’s unplanned off-day was that it would be more like half an off-day. Thankfully the dance-and-drinking party didn’t rope us in, and we were able to get to bed early enough that our 4:13am alarm didn’t feel quite as brutal as it sounds. It also helped that at this 9,500 ft.…