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.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…
Her Odyssey Final Season Launch: Canoeing the Arctic Drainage
Sweltering up a steep, sun-exposed climb in western Guatemala, a realization dawned on me. I pedaled to catch up to Neon and shared that a longstanding inside joke might soon…
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…
Her Odyssey 2022 Maps & Plans
15,000 miles and counting! Since November 2015, the Her Odyssey explorers, Bethany ‘Fidgit’ Hughes and Lauren ‘Neon’ Reed, have traversed 15,000 of the 20,000 mile proposed human powered journey to…
‘Share Your Story’ Shirt Sales: pay it forward recipients ‘WeGotNext’
Her Odyssey is powered by a community of curious and forward-thinking people invested in seeing the world through different lenses. The ‘Share Your Story’ Campaign is a fundraising effort for…
Jorche de los Bicis
*Written by Fidgit* Our bikes were as beat up as we were rolling in to Aguascalientes. Neon had broken her shifter when she flipped into a highway. My tires were…
Abuela en la Parroquia de Santo Domingo
*Written by Fidgit* She was what made me acknowledge that we needed to go home. It wasn’t quite time yet but this was the moment I acknowledged that it would…
