Did that all really just happen? WOWZA. It was a ride, alright! This trip in Colombia has been the most significant ride I’ve done since my first multiday trip around 9 years ago. At just under 2 weeks, it can hardly be considered epic. But I did my best to keep it interesting ;). I…

I’m not sure what else to say other than I f***ing crushed it today. I honestly didn’t set out to make it all the way here or to achieve some kind of anything, but sometimes you just have it in you. And today was such a day for me. 130 km, 7000 ft, 8 hours…

So here’s how my day started. Happy February friends! 😂 I feel like a friggin’ princeling in this place. If you ever come to Jardin, which I highly recommend (see below), it would be tragic to not stay in one of the two cabins here at Cabaña Blue Sky. Besides it being an amazing space…

I just got out of a 30 minute soak in my own private jacuzzi. Let me tell you about what it took to get here. I awoke at 6 and couldn’t go back to sleep, so anxious about getting out of Anserma and the possible steep downward inclines. My intense and well documented fear of…

Whoever christened San Francisco as having the steepest streets had never been to Anserma, Colombia. It literally feels like it’s teetering on the peak it’s perched on. Walking up the main strip northbound, all axis streets drop at improbable angles seemingly to nothingness. I can barely look down them. I had to ride corkscrew around…

Today was nearly perfect, therefore I don’t have anything to write about. Kidding! I needed a day like today. Started by waking up in what may have been the most comfortable bed I’ve ever slept in. It was also the first night I actually slept (this is not usually a problem for me) and the…

I did not ride a bike today. What I did do is take a jeep ride to hike around in the Cocora Valley to see the wax palm trees. Ironically, everything I was on today was totally suitable for biking 🤦‍♂️. This valley is unreal. Extremely lush and green, wildly hilly, and with the wax…

I’m going to tell today’s story based around 3 small acts of kindness. Part 1 About 40% of the way into my ride up a mountain this morning, I hear quick footsteps and a voice calling out something. I had just passed some road workers so assumed something had fallen off my bike. I turned…

I tried! That big hill that started my day was not something I could ride on. I pushed, pulled and generally dragged myself and my 2/3s loaded bicycle up the ridiculously steep and rough road for somewhere around 5 kms. It took 4 hours. I don’t think I moved more than 25 meters without taking…

I have some bad news. For those of you hoping to see me sporting slashed mottled jeans and T-shirt’s with all sorts of crazy stuff on them, well, we live in a global capitalist world where brands rule. I was able to find 100% Chad type clothes: Levi’s stretchy denim knee length shorts and gray…

I have picked a really unusual form of recreation and leisure 🤣. Got the whole gamut of cycling challenges today: Started the day out and about in search of coffee and food. After I successfully completed this mission, I learned my hotel room came with breakfast. So 2 it was. The first part of riding…

Thank you all for your kind and supportive words. It means a lot to have folks out there cheering me on. Yesterday was a tough one, today has been a whole new and better thing. Catastrophe free, or catastro-free 🙂 I figured I’d spend days berating myself for the fails of yesterday, but that hasn’t…