by humoftheearth | Apr 12, 2019 | Places I've Been
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...
by humoftheearth | Apr 6, 2019 | Places I've Been
Baños was a lot of fun in the sun. Maybe too much, since some of my skin was now in revolt from the generous offerings of UV you get in Ecuador (Ecuador is Spanish for Equator). After taking a dark day I felt perhaps I was ready to head south to Cuenca? ...
by humoftheearth | Apr 2, 2019 | Places I've Been
With my bicycle issues resolved? It was time to soak in some more Ecuador. What better place than Baños? Similarly to San Gil in Colombia, you can’t throw a rock in Baños without hitting an adventure sport activity location. But as a frugal...
by humoftheearth | Mar 29, 2019 | Places I've Been
My Schwalbe Marathon Plus tires had arrived a day early. And my Ecuador research was complete. I was ready to embark upon this new country. But it wouldn’t be an adventure if things were that easy From the modicome of...
by humoftheearth | Mar 23, 2019 | Thoughts
If you would rather watch me discuss this topic while hiking in Southern Colombia, scroll down below the text for the video version of the article Out of the countries I have visited so far, on my bicycle tour from Canada to Argentina, Colombia is the country...
