We thought while we had a moment in La Paz, we’d write a little post giving you an idea of what our days are like. We’ve kind of gotten into a routine on our biking days that seems to be working for us so far. As you might imagine, when we’re on the bike, most [...]
Filed under: General, Mexico on February 17th, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, we finally made it to La Paz, after 4 weeks and over 1200 km of cycling! We have had several firsts since our last post—our first 7-day consecutive stretch of cycling, our first day averaging over 20 km/h (amazing what you can do when riding downhill with a tailwind), and our first rear tire [...]
Filed under: Mexico on February 15th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Well, we’ve spent the last four nights camping. First in an RV park in Mulege where we got some laundry done and ate tacos. Then we spent two nights on the public beach of Playa Coyote (pic above) in Bahia Conception next to about a million US and Canadian RVs and Campers. Last night we [...]
Filed under: Mexico on February 9th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
We pulled into Santa Rosalia today just before dusk, after two grueling days of battling fierce headwinds and hills (we didn’t even get any rest on the downhills). I’ve been downloading the GPS data from the bike computer daily, and I usually give a check to see if we’re picking up wireless, and sure enough, [...]
Filed under: Mexico on February 4th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We ended up spending three nights in Guerrero Negro waiting out the storm that came through. The first day, even though there was evidence of rain in the air, we decided to go whale watching in the afternoon. Had we known at this point we were going to stay an extra day, we probably [...]
Filed under: Mexico on February 2nd, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a pretty wild last couple of days. We started our ascent into the Central Baja Desert on Saturday the 27th. The climbing went slower than expected, as we made our way up to 500 meters elevation. We wanted to make it to the oasis town of Catavina (120 km from El Rosario) in [...]
Filed under: Mexico on January 30th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
After four days of biking in a row, we needed a little rest—which was provided by a little community on Santa Maria Bay. We camped at another RV park, having pitched our tent just meters from the dunes. During our rest day, we did some laundry, read a little, took a nap, and tried (unsuccessfully) [...]
Filed under: Mexico on January 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We’re in a small town called Calamu (sp) after having biked our first three consecutive days. Our plans to have blog posts worked out on the computer and then upload them at internet cafes has been foiled somewhat by the lack of computers with USB ports that are easily accessible. So I’m winging this a [...]
Filed under: Mexico on January 23rd, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The distance itself was pretty easy. I could have gone further, but aiyaiyai the climbing! We rode around 50 km (30 miles) and climbed over 300 m (1000 ft). Given my current lack of training, it would have been tiring for me on my racing bike, but the extra 70 lbs of weight on the [...]
Filed under: Mexico on January 20th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Our first day in Mexico actually went pretty smoothly overall. It started by catching the first ferry from Coronado to downtown San Diego. Our first challenge was boarding the trolley (it’s really a light rail, not like the “real” trolley in San Francisco) to the border. We thought we might be able to just lift [...]
Filed under: Mexico on January 18th, 2007 | 2 Comments »