Starting in Banff (Canada) in August 2010, and finishing (reluctantly) in April 2012 in Punta Arenas (Chilean Patagonia); this (as much as possible) off-road bicycle journey changed us to a degree. To a much greater degree it reinforced and magnified what we’d always known we were.
This is a chronological list of posts. With a varying amount of assiduousness I recorded route information, particularly if I felt it was hard for me to find and the segment was worth riding. Use this information freely – but please tell us how you found it and especially if it’s significantly wrong.
Canada
- Jet lag, big dummy building and deciding on a start point
- Playing in Canmore – still not started riding yet
- Banff to Elkford
- Elkford to Whitefish
USA
- Whitefish to Lincoln
- Lincoln to Lima
- Lima to Pinedale
- Pinedale to Rawlins
- Rawlins to Steamboat Springs
- Steamboat Springs to Silverthorne
- Silverthorne to Del Norte
- Del Norte to Cuba
- Cuba to Silver City
- Silver City to Silver City – via Antelope Wells
- Silver City to Columbus NM – via Antelope Wells (again)
Mexico
- Columbus to Nuevas Casas Grandes
- Nuevas Casas Grandes to Creel
- Creel to Uriqué
- Uriqué to Balleza
- Balleza to Tepehuanes
- Tepehuanes to Durango
- Durango to Zacatecas
- Zacatecas to San Luis de la Paz
- San Luis de la Paz to Mineral del Chico
- Mineral del Chico to Teotitlan de Flores Magon
- Teotitlan de Flores Magon to Oaxaca
- Tierra del Sol, Tlacochahuaya (nr Oaxaca)
- Tierra del Sol to Tehuantepec
- Tehuantepec to San Cristobal de las Casas
- San Cristobal de las Casas to Lago de Montebello – via Palenque and Benemérito
Guatemala
- Lagos de Montebello to Huehuetenango – via Gracia a Dios and San Mateo Ixtatan
- Huehuetenango to Panajachel
- Panajachel to San Andrés Itzapa (Mayapedal)
- San Andrés Itzapa to Copán Ruinas (Honduras)
Honduras and Nicaragua
Costa Rica and Panamá
- Granada (Nicaragua) to Liberia (Costa Rica)
- Liberia to Laguna Arenal: via Nicoya Peninsula and Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve
- Laguna Arenal to Alajuela
- Alajuela to Bocas del Toro (Panamá) – with off-bike side-trip to Quépos and Montezuma (Nicoya)
- Bocas del Toro to Ciudad de Panamá
Colombia
Ecuador
- Pasto (Colombia) to Tumbaco (Ecuador)
- Tumbaco to Riobamba – via Cotopaxi, Lago Quilotoa and Chimborazo
- Riobamba to Loja – via Macas, Zamora and the Orient
Perú
- Loja (Ecuador) to Cajamarca (Perú) – via Zumba and Leymebamba
- Cajamarca to Caraz – fat tyre inspiration and paths found
- Caraz to Huaraz – via Yanama, Chacas, Juitush and Quebrada Honda
- Huaraz to Huánuco
- Huánuco to Huancayo – via Pallanchacra, Cerro de Pasco and Órdones
- Huancayo to Ayacucho – glorying in the heights!
- Ayacucho to Abancay – protests and rollercosters
- Abancay to Cusco – via Nevado Salkantay and Machu Picchu
- Cusco to Juliaca – little roads worth taking
- Juliaca to La Paz – via Puerto Acosta and the north side of Lake Titicaca
Bolvia
- La Paz to San Juan del Rosario – rain and salt
- San Juan del Rosario to San Pedro de Atacama – lagunas and washboard
Chile/Argentina
- San Pedro de Atacama to Olacapato (Argentina): via Paso Sico
- San Antonio de los Cobres to Belén – isolation in uncertainty
- Belén to Mendoza – heat and siestas
- Mendoza – a phoenix in red, white and black
- Mendoza to Junín de los Andes – Southward trucking
- Junín de los Andes to Villa Santa Lucia – Lots of lakes and cyclists and a little bit of ash
- Villa Santa Lucia to Villa O’Higgins – Protests and hospitality on the Carretera Austral
- Villa O’Higgins to El Chaltén – Lakes, mountains and singletrack
- El Chaltén to El Calafate – wind and a glacier
- El Calafate to Punta Arenas – Torres, new friends and an ending
In addition to these travelogue posts, there are a number of Sarah’s posts (Random Ramblings) and Galleries.
We met a number of other cyclists and travellers during the trip.
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