Southern Patagonia

The fantastic stupidity of riding a bike in Patagonia

The Carretera Austral

Running on autopilot on one of the world most famous roads

The Places in Between

A realistic day in the life of long distance bike touring

Last man on earth, first on another planet

Cycling the through the empty villages and salt flats of Bolivia’s altiplano

Washout

Dealing with the arrival of the rainy season in the Peruvian Andes.

Beyond The Blanca

Continuing along the mountains of Peru

Turning up the Epic

Expectations vs reality in Peru’s Cordillia Blanca

In search of El Silencio

My first, loud impressions of Peru. Cajamarca – Caraz.

Two out of Three Volcanoes

I left the Casa de Ciclistas in good company, in the form of the Swiss cyclist, Martin. He’s on a similar worldwide trip like mine and whose reason for riding to wild and remote places was ‘to escape humans’. Naturally, we got on well. Leaving Tumbaco we continued to follow bikepacking.com’s TEMBR route, winding our […]

Who do you find at La Casa De Ciclistas?

Tumbaco is a plain old suburb to the East of Quito, but it’s likely to be on the map of everyone travelling in South America by bike. It’s near a disused train line turned cycle path, that’s gentle gradients were a merciful change to the steep climbs of Ecuadorian roads. But the main reason for […]