by Peter Having said our goodbyes at the bus station, I crossed the street of Palenque only to run into a couple of kids on a bike tour to the bottom of the world. A couple of gringos with some sort of something to prove, we chatted for a second about sleeping outside. They said … Continue reading
*This post is written by me, Jorie, but I am no longer on bike tour. If you are visiting this blog to read about biking in Mexico check out our earlier posts or look for new ones from Peter. This is about natural building and my time working with an environmental education project. Word* May … Continue reading
Ever travel outside your comfort zone and find you just love to point out all the little inconveniences? Us too! Here is an on-going list of our favorite things to complain about that don’t really matter. We like to call them”First World Problems.” In no particular order: Not enough vegetables in the food People not … Continue reading
We got in to San Cristobal early on a typically chilly morning. High in the mountains, this “Hometown” of the Zapatista Movement has spawned quite a tourist draw in the years following their coming out party on the first day of the inception of NAFTA, January 1, 1994. In fact, its kinda gross how overwhelmingly … Continue reading
Tues Here’s a thing we don’t get: Why do people give such blatantly questionable directions? In the morning as we were packing our bikes, Peter asked the woman working in the cabaña office what the road to Oaxaca was like from Ixtlan. Her confident reply was that it was just a little bit uphill, then … Continue reading
This post spans April 9 – 16 With the ceiling fan controller box melted from faulty wiring, we woke in a sweaty blur to load our bikes and push on to Veracruz. The ride was short and easy into the notorious city which supposedly has a reputation as a raging party port town. We didn’t … Continue reading
Sweet Street Art and Graf Pieces that We’ve been finding in Mexico. Oaxaca takes the cake for most bombs dropped per block. Heres a website of more fresh Oxacaño art Uuuuuhh!!! Tiiight! IF YOUD LIKE TO ADD A LITTLE GREASE TO OUR TRIP YOU CAN MAKE A DONATION BY CLICKING HERE
April 1 As we weren’t too stoked on the idea of beginning our first bike tour trying to fight our way out of the speeding tangle of traffic that is Mexico city, we opted instead to leave by bus and head 1.5 hours east to Puebla (Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza). It´s been easy to take … Continue reading
tread banda de rodadura reversible stem poste de timón rear dropout orejas de chasis traseros bar grip mango rear derailleur desviador; cambio delantero handlebars timón/manubrio tension pulley polea de tension brake lever manesilla derailleur cage caja de desviador deraillleur cable cable de descarrilador barrel adjuster tornillo de aguja brake cable cable de freno freewheel piñon … Continue reading
Cabo Pulmo, Sea of Cortez, Southern Baja California, Mexico. (Farkling with the Fam) We were 1560 miles apart, yet with uncanny telepathic unison, we both scrambled up to the last minute to get our bikes together before boarding flights to Mexico. Although our bike boxes were bigger than the over-sized size, and we could have … Continue reading
Two bikes, one Flexico.. So we wanted to make this blog for few reasons. Mostly it was to keep track of our moves, a little to ease the concerns of our friends & fam, but also to give back to the bike touring community and hopefully inspire and support the next round of folks coming down … Continue reading
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