August 24- September 1 We paddled into the pebbly beach on one of dozens of coves which frame the Inuvialuit hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk around 8:30 pm on August 24th. John…
Canoeing the Dehcho [Mackenzie River] Pt. I
July 13-July 25, 2022 Fort Providence- Tulita Setting out from Fort Providence we navigated our first thunder and lightning deluge. We’ve watched them skirt the river and it was fascinating…
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…
Her Odyssey Expedition Complete
On August 24, 2022 Bethany Hughes and Lauren Reed paddled into Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, Canada. This completes Her Odyssey expedition’s mission to physically connect the Americas from Patagonia to the Arctic…
Her Odyssey Final Season Launch: Canoeing the Arctic Drainage
Sweltering up a steep, sun-exposed climb in western Guatemala, a realization dawned on me. I pedaled to catch up to Neon and shared that a longstanding inside joke might soon…
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…
