This blog tells the story of our journey cycling from Oaxaca to San Cristobal (via the Oaxacan Coast) in April 2018. If you’re looking to do a similar trip we go into a lot more detail about the logistics around…
Cycling South from Mexico City – The Logistics
If you’re looking to do a cycling trip through Mexico (specifically from Mexico City south), we’ve pulled together an overview of our route, thoughts on accommodation and other (hopefully useful…) information from our experiences in March-May 2018 to help you plan. If…
Cycling Mexico City to Oaxaca
This blog gives an overview of our experiences cycling from Mexico City to Oaxaca via Puebla – if you’re interested in doing something similar we have a much more detailed logistics and route planning blog available here. Cycling in cities…
Two Week Holiday in Mexico with the Family
The visit from my family had been a long time in the planning. While we were scurrying around in Canada desperately trying to salvage something from our beloved fire truck, my parents were trying to pin us down to a…
Cycling Baja California – The Logistics
If you’re looking to do a cycling trip through Baja California, we’ve pulled together an overview of our route, thoughts on accommodation and other (hopefully useful…) information from our experiences in February 2018 to help you plan. It is an…
Cycling Baja California
This is the (rather long, but hopefully enjoyable!) story of our 1600km cycle from San Diego, California to La Paz, Baja California Sur in February 2018. You can find out more about the logistics in our separate blog here. “You…
5 things I learned when I crashed our van
The 30th October 2017 started just like any other day on our trip. I woke up first, ate breakfast, tried to remove the excess ice from our windows, and began trying to coax Konstantin out of bed. We eventually got…
Fire Truck Update
The last few months have been an interesting time with some fairly dramatic developments on our adventure! On 30th October 2017 we crashed our van (after hitting a patch of black ice) in the middle of nowhere in northern British…
10 Days in the Canadian Rockies
We’d been told by a lot of people that we should concentrate our exploration of the Rockies in the Jasper area – it’s a lot less touristy they told us. Unfortunately Konstantin and I heard “not touristy” rather than “less…
Lake Superior
West from Algonquin we hit Lake Superior. The early settlers thought they’d hit the Pacific, and you can see why – the rugged coastline, the endless horizon, the choppy water. But instead it’s the largest fresh water lake in the…