Those of you who’ve been reading along all these years will understand our trepidation about returning to Nicaragua or even whether we would be allowed back in. I am delighted…
Bikepacking Guatemala
Public adaptation of a Patreon post which was shared in March, as events unfolded. [In real time we are in Canada, preparing to canoe the Arctic Drainage.] Greetings from the…
Bikepacking Chiapas Pt. 2: San Cristobal de las Casas to the Guatemala Border
End of February 2022 [While in real time I am in southern Canada, preparing to canoe the Arctic Drainage, the transition has kept me so busy I am still catching…
Bikepacking Chiapas Pt.1: Sumidero Canyon to San Cristobal de las Casas
Late February 2022 [In real time we are in southern Canada, preparing to canoe the Arctic Drainage. The transition from completing Central America to coming back to the north has…
Bikepacking Puebla: Farm, Ranch, and Cowboy Country
Latter half of January 2022 “We do not learn from an experience … We learn from reflecting on an experience.” -Adaptation from A John Dewey discourse Once we were out…
Montezuma Cypress, Safety as Women Internationally, & Sustaining Slow Travel
Ahuehuetes, or the Montezma baldcypress, are Mexico’s national tree. The name comes from the Nahuatl (a family of Uto-Aztec languages) meaning “upright water drum” or “old man of the water.”…
Malinalco, Mexico: The Warrior City of Foxtail Grass
Once upon a time, we rode through a land where they build the roads around trees. Malinalco is another of the Pueblos Mágicos of Mexico. I stopped to take this…
Bikepacking: Guanajuato to the Monarch Butterfly Preserves
Riding out from Guanajuato we initially followed the Trans Mexico Bikepacking Route which crossed a small range the locals simple call La Cruz, to the city of San Miguel de…
Bikepacking: Aguscalientes to Guanajuato, Mexico
We resumed the Her Odyssey Route on January 3, 2022. Picking up bikepacking where we had left off in March 2020. “Jorche y Paco son muy chambeador!” They were my…
Tone Change & Bikepacking Perspective
Before I resume storytelling, suffer me a spiel. I’d like to explain a frame adjustment for our community of followers: Up to this point my objective in blogging has been…
