Saturday morning was thankfully and luckily not rainy. I can’t say it was dry as there was still a lot of water about from the previous hours of torrential onslaught, but the stuff had at least ceased to fall from the sky. We were soon loaded up and on our way Cobá. Outside of Tulum […]
Yes we said we were going to wring out the last drops of excitement and fun from our trip and we had all intention to hop on the bikes the morning after the last post and pedal South to Laguna Bacalar. Then we got an offer to go to Akumal with Meg, the Coloradan from […]
We managed to ride from Playa del Carmen to Tulum without getting any punctures or heavily rained on. The road was much the same as the previous day – good quality dual carriage way with a decent shoulder – and we were in Tulum by noon. Though we’d been sent a map of the location […]
I was stressing a bit about bike boxes before we got them. The boxes we got when we were leaving the UK were too small and it was only due to good fortune that we were able to get bigger ones from the bike shop in Glossop (see Leaving the UK: The Last Few Stumbling […]
We got up super early at Corey and Carol’s as they had to get to work and it made sense for us to get an early start since we’d be cycling through city or suburbia for most of today’s ride. We hadn’t had any luck finding a host for what would be our last night […]
It had rained heavily during the night but it had just about cleared up when we left Ben’s. We blitzed it along the road to Orwell where we stopped for donuts and coffee at a little Amish shop. Sat on the bench outside guzzling down half a dozen donuts we had a nice chat with […]
Thirteen days off and in one place is a very long time. We needed it and it was wonderful, but it’s a long time. Time enough to unpack a lot of stuff and deposit it around the house. Also time enough to lose some fitness and feel a bit out of shape. I had intended […]
We set off from Massey Marina bright and early but were drowning in sweat in no time after the road turned to gravel and then presented us with by far the steepest grade we’d seen since Duffy Lake Road. Despite my instincts telling me to get off my bike I forced myself not to give […]
After getting dropped off by Bonnie at Osakis we continued following the Lake Wobegon Trail south east to meet up with Tory. The riding surface was nice and the weather was great so we kept a good pace. At one point a fallen tree blocked our way and it seemed easier to man handle the […]
From Fargo to Shakopee is about 250 miles and we’d planned to do this in four days originally, but with our impromptu day off in Fargo we wanted to try to do it in three so as to still arrive at Tory’s on the Thursday as planned. It was cool and overcast as we left […]
