June 20- July 5, 2022 If your language was blinking toward extinction but you could choose one word of your heritage to be carried forward, what would it be? Mahsi…
Bikepacking Honduras
In brief I would say the western highlands and Cordillera Central are beautiful and welcoming enough to warrant slow travel. East of Tegucigalpa is not an area to loiter unless…
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: 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…
Her Odyssey Back in Motion on the Great Divide Trail
On August 14th, the Her Odyssey women resumed the travel component of our endeavor. On August 9th, Canada opened their borders to vaccinated and qualified US citizens, despite the US not…
