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Along the Rio Santa in Peru on a bicycle tour in South America
Our narrow tandem tires cut into the dust and bounce and slide from one auto-tire slickened rock to another. We hope to avoid the shattered and sharpened hidden ones, capable of ruining our day, and one of our tires. We have one spare, and wonder if we should not have brought two. A few times a particularly viscous rock (by the second day I was attributing evil intent to certain rocks) would throw the front wheel toward the abyss, necessitating a dual bail out. Read the rest of this article…
Northern Brazil Savannah to Bom Fin
We finally had a great day on the bike, from Boa Vista to Bom Fin on the border with Guyana. I’d always thought all of Amazonian Brazil was jungle, or rather cut down jungle, second growth, but the north is wet savannah, much like the Gulf Country of Queensland, Australia. We saw more birds in one day of 130 kilometers here than we have seen in the entire trip so far, all but one or two new to our “life list.” There were stops every 30 to 40 kilometers with roadhouses, also much like Australia but closer, where we got much needed cold drinks to add to our load of water. It is very hot and humid here just north of the Equator, and we were soaking wet most of the time. Our final stop was nearly an hour so we could cool down to a reasonable level before going on. Read the rest of this article…
We leave Huaraz
By Bob and Claire Rogers We leave Huaraz northbound eventually to Cajamarca, in hopefully less than two weeks, probably our next usable Internet. We hope to catch a large agricultural fair there. The route will stay high in the Andes, … Read the rest of this article…
It sounded like a parade
by Bob and Claire Rogers It sounded like a parade, a particularly raucous parade. It seemed to be on the same alley as hospedaje Nana, in Huaraz. We love a parade. This parade, this band, was very special, from Jardin … Read the rest of this article…
Fiesta del Virgen del Carmen
First Days in the Andes
We arrive in Lima
Bob: When we arrived in Lima, Zippy’s cardboard box, a good one, looked bad. We had to tear it off to get him in a taxi, and the pallet wrap seemed intact. That spent the afternoon building him up in … Read the rest of this article…