Category: bikepacking
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Colombia: Belén to El Cucoy
I picked up the bottle in the D8 tienda, which is like Colombian Aldi’s– put your own groceries in a used cardboard box after checkout. “Ron Viejo de Calandas” I wondered if it was some kind of brown aquaguardiente (aguaguardiente…
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Colombia: Villa de Leyva to Belén
Thunder, louder than it should be, boosted by the echoes on the green steep rocky walls of the valley, pounding rain. Booming cumbia reggaeton mixes, yelling dudes, and fighting barking dogs compete with the storm to be the loudest thing…
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Bikepacking Colombia
A little drip of sweat in right eye, burns, I stop pushing my bike up the rocky track and try to get a dirty glove finger under my sunglasses to wipe it away. Instead of wiping it out I add…
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Ha Giang to Lao Cai
We just finished dinner at a little farm called the Cinnamon Eco Lodge, and the grandpa of the family just brought out his jungle pipe. As long as we’ve been here, I’ve been seeing guys sitting next to the road…
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Vietnam: Ha Long Bay to Cao Bang
“Man, Colleen couldn’t you have picked a place farther up the hill?” I’m doing the paper boy up the super steep street in Cat Ba Town, to the hotel Colleen picked which is like five feet below the very very…
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Vietnam: Hanoi to Ha Long Bay
“Try, try it, this for you,” says an old lady with a cone hat. She pushes a little donut into my hand before I know what’s happening. Colleen and I were just walking down some busy side street in Hanoi,…
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Hello Vietnam
I never finished writing about New Zealand last year, work just got too busy. We rode all around the South Island, it was nice, I’ll write it up sometime. (And here’s a plug for a good gig- if you’re interested…
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Auckland to Coromandal
The road is one of those impossibly steep ones, the kind where you’d shift a car into first gear to try to creep down, but it’s still too steep so the by the time you’re at the bottom the brake…
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The Big Boy
This is the Big Boy. I like her very much. So first, why- in the last year I’ve been real taken with skateboarding. I couldn’t imagine taking a winter off the board, but I still wanted to go bike touring.…
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Florida and Mississippi
We’ve just crossed the Alabama Florida line, and the 15th and 16th dogs that day run out of their yard to chase me, and I snap. “Arff arff arff arff arff!” they yell. “Fuck you fuck you fuck you!” I…
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