Posts Tagged cycling
The Shortest Summer Ever Arriving back in Canada in early September means we have a few weeks of summer-like weather before winter hits. We’ve been taking advantage with daily rides. Sometimes its on the touring bikes and sometimes its on mountain bikes. Riding off road has been a pleasure as I’ve been tied to the [...]
A New Postcard, An Old Photo, and Some News Less Text – these postcard’s aren’t about the text; they’re about adventure photography and exploring. This means no more lengthy posts with my weekly Friday postcard This isn’t new – This marks the second week I didn’t post a shot taken in the previous seven days. [...]
A Dog Bite, A Tongue Bite, and A Flat Tire We cycled out of Cafayate in high spirits. The weather was beautiful, the planned day was short, and we didn’t know our Karma had gone from good to bad. As the saying goes, bad luck comes in threes: One of our four Shwalbe Marathon Plus [...]
A Rest From Riding After a peaceful stop in Humahuaca, we continued down the Quebrada to Tilcara and Purmamarca. While both towns are beautiful, they’ve both changed in their authenticity badge for a tourist-trap version. Even the artisan markets take Visa. We kept cycling south to Jujuy, across La Cornisa, to Salta. In Salta, known [...]
As Gregg Bleakney’s website biography says, he was never interested in photography, as a career, until 2005 when “a slick camera salesman talked him into spending two-months of his trip’s budget on a SLR camera.” In the end, Bleakney cycled the Pan-American Highway, nearly 30 000 km from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, with plans [...]
The week has gone by surprisingly quick. Since returning home from my ExperiencePlus! Pedal the Andes tour, I’ve been working long hours on several articles. Although I didn’t have time to get out much this week, I did catch a couple of stages of the annual Vuelta de Mendoza bike race. It isn’t exactly exploring, [...]
My ExperiencePlus! Pedal the Andes Plus Chiloe cycle tour ended with three sunny days on Chiloe Island. Yes, I just said sunny days and Chiloe Island in the same sentence without lying. In this image, ExperiencePlus! Owner Maria Elena Price is seen cycling through a defining Patagonia scene – rolling farmland, blue skies, and ocean [...]
