So you think we’re crazy for taking a journey like this? Maybe you think we’re the only ones? WRONG! Since we’ve been on the road, especially here in South America, we’ve met loads of other cyclists doing trips like ours. Some are longer, some are shorter… some have more gear, some have less. We’ve even...
For our anniversary, we went all out and took a week off the bikes to go check out Iguazu Falls. Our original plan for the Tour had included riding there, but it turns out Iguazu is super far away from everything else and would have cost us somewhere around 15-20 days of somewhat dull riding....
Overall, we have loved the few weeks we’ve spent here in Argentina. But of course, along the way, there have been a few little quirks that have gotten under our skin. We hope that you’ll be amused, as we have come to be, with these “cultural differences.” 1. The “Baden.” Literally translated, this word means...
Something must have happened when we rode into the desert, because over the past few weeks, our stuff has started falling apart! Our most significant gear failure yet was Dave’s rim. About 30 km north of Jachal (read: in the middle of nowhere in the desert), his wheel started wobbling as we were descending from...
We had a tough time deciding whether we wanted to spend these few weeks of riding north in Chile or Argentina. Although it hasn’t been easy, we haven’t regretted our decision to make our way up Ruta 40 across the vastness of northwest Argentina. The desert has been some of what we expected, but in...
We had seen pictures of the pass we would ride over to “cross the Cordillera.” We had heard about the 30 switchbacks which would take us up and over the Andes. We knew that we would be making our way up to an altitude of more than 10,000 feet… on our fully loaded bicycles. Knowing...
