July 25- August 8 The final weeks were spent reveling in having found our daily rhythm: loading the boat, mid-day snacks and yerba mate, Ikea bags key to moving kit…
Canoeing: Athabasca to Fort Chipewyan
June 6 – 19, 2022 We set off on our bikes from Arno and Elaine’s woodland reprieve feeling goofy and confident. We took our time, balancing covering ground with this…
Bikepacking Honduras
In brief I would say the western highlands and Cordillera Central are beautiful and welcoming enough to warrant slow travel. East of Tegucigalpa is not an area to loiter unless…
Bikepacking Chiapas Pt. 2: San Cristobal de las Casas to the Guatemala Border
End of February 2022 [While in real time I am in southern Canada, preparing to canoe the Arctic Drainage, the transition has kept me so busy I am still catching…
Bikepacking Oaxaca: A land of Diversity
February 2022 “Febrero loco, Marzo otro poco.” – Mexican Saying Diversity abounds throughout Mexico and Central America. Language, culture, weather, climate, food, and vegetation all change from one valley…
Bikepacking Puebla: Farm, Ranch, and Cowboy Country
Latter half of January 2022 “We do not learn from an experience … We learn from reflecting on an experience.” -Adaptation from A John Dewey discourse Once we were out…
Montezuma Cypress, Safety as Women Internationally, & Sustaining Slow Travel
Ahuehuetes, or the Montezma baldcypress, are Mexico’s national tree. The name comes from the Nahuatl (a family of Uto-Aztec languages) meaning “upright water drum” or “old man of the water.”…
Malinalco, Mexico: The Warrior City of Foxtail Grass
Once upon a time, we rode through a land where they build the roads around trees. Malinalco is another of the Pueblos Mágicos of Mexico. I stopped to take this…
Bikepacking: Aguscalientes to Guanajuato, Mexico
We resumed the Her Odyssey Route on January 3, 2022. Picking up bikepacking where we had left off in March 2020. “Jorche y Paco son muy chambeador!” They were my…
Tone Change & Bikepacking Perspective
Before I resume storytelling, suffer me a spiel. I’d like to explain a frame adjustment for our community of followers: Up to this point my objective in blogging has been…
