Category: Peru

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 host’s units. Huh! It just seemed like we…

Last night our host asked what time we would be leaving in the morning, which I thought was a little strange because we would be capable of exiting the hotel on our own at any time (this is not always the case in Peru! And entering this property required ringing the bell and having someone…

Prior to our 17 nights in Cusco, we had done a few days of riding through the Sacred Valley, but before that we’d had another 16 nights off the bikes in Ollantaytambo. So it’s really been five weeks without “serious” bike riding, and also while living in relative luxury. Even four years and a dozen…

Week 2.5 Despite two weeks in Cusco, we were still having a challenging and stressful time deciding where we wanted to go next, and how we wanted to get there. Having barely moved south in the last month, it would now be completely impossible to make it to Patagonia during its summer season under our…

Week 2 Cusco likes “7”. The flower-lined staircase that our AirBNB looks down on is named “Calle 7 Borreguitos” (“Street of 7 Little Lambs”). Nearby is “Calle 7 Diablitos” (“…Little Devils”), and there are five others around the city for a total of…7. More-recently, the city’s flag was designed with 7 rainbow stripes. And the…