I find bicycle touring to very much be about the journey and not the destination. If you’re lucky, you experience ups and downs (literally and emotionally) and learn things that make you a better person and bicycle tourer. Some lessons were definitely learned in Southern Ecuador

 

 

Known for its music and great coffee, Loja is Ecuador’s cultural capital. And I could feel it as I walked the streets discovering this pretty little city

 

 

Some people say everything happens for a reason. If it wasn’t for what at the time felt like unfortunate circumstances, I would never have truly experienced Southern Ecuador’s cloud forest environment and its flying inhabitants

 

 

 

Incredible Northern Peru coming up next!