Alaska to Argentina bike tour
Apr 09 2021
Some good has come out of Covid-19. Last December, I came to India to see my mother and I continued to stay here to take advantage of the ‘work from home’ situation – Thanks to Edron Academy who were kind to agree to this. The temperature here crossed the 30 degrees C mark and this …
Aug 15 2020
For the summer holidays, with travel disruption everywhere, I did the one thing that I know best – off I went on my bike without a tent, as they say, just credit card touring. The first trip was to the state of Michoacan, the capital of which was Morelia. I left Mexico city pedalling and …
Jan 07 2020
Here is the reason why this blog was dormant for a while – a back breaking accident, literally. On the fine summer morning of 8th June 2018, on my regular commute to work on my trusty steed, I was hit by a car from behind. I flew in the air and landed on my back. The …
Apr 18 2018
What’s life without at least one bicycle touring per year? With the ‘beast from the east’ making frequent visits to the British Isles the east coast of North America was the safe bet for some stable and warm weather over Easter holidays. Florida lost out due to the flight cost and Cancun won. The connecting …
Apr 29 2017
After a brief period of lull it was time to revive the cycle touring spirit albeit with a short tour, a very short one, compared to the previous journey. The criteria to select the place was warm weather and a place where I have never been. Cuba met this criteria and more – this country …
Mar 29 2016
Buenos Aires was hot all day and every day and it was a perfect place for a bit of chilling, reminiscing and future planning. This time was also used to catch up with some of my friends and also to organise a job and a place to live in London on my return. There was …
Feb 19 2016
The end was in sight and the countdown began. After El Calafate the next bigger place was Puerto Natales in Chile and there was a 70 km ripio (Spanish for gravel roads) section in between. I took the 75 km detour to avoid this even though it meant some potential headwinds when heading west from …
Jan 25 2016
Patagonia region spans over two countries, Argentina and Chile, and were quite distinct. There were several gravel road sections which my road bike tyres didn’t like and this on its own provided for some adventure. After Bariloche, the theme of lakes and mountains continued for about two days until El Bolson after which I had …
Dec 28 2015
My time in Santiago flew by and I could have easily stayed there longer. It was time to leave because things became too familiar and it was not the time to return to ‘normal’ life. I really liked this place though. I had originally planned a six days ride to Concepcion another big city in …
Nov 28 2015
This would be the last big pass in this trip about 3200m high. I will be going over some passes further south but none of them above 1500m. Leaving Mendoza was straightforward I just had to head towards the mountain. The highway was pretty busy and after the turn off the road became narrow with …