-
Mexico : Mazatlan → San Blas : June 2016
I was all but decided that I would take a hiatus from the bike tour, flying home to Seattle from Mexico City to wait out the heat come mid-July. The seed was planted as I started my North-South traverse of the Sonoran desert, and the notion flowered as I took on this arid expanse, day
-
Mexico : Topolobampo → Mazatlan : June 2016
It’s really funny how some prejudice mixed with a little lack of friendliness can taint an impression of a place. Yes, Sinaloa is home to the worlds most powerful cartel, but does that mean that it’s a bad place to tool around on a bicycle? I think I was reasoning “well, it can’t mean that
-
Mexico : Hermosillo → Topolobampo : May 2016
I say goodbye to Moises, and as we part ways, so too do I return to the shameless ways of a budget vagabond. I buy breakfast makings, along with calories for the trip to Guaymas, at the near by Walmart, and eat them under the shade of a tree near an entrance to its parking
-
Mexico : Santa Ana → Hermosillo : May 2016
I’ve got good 3G-ish coverage in Mexico so far, but not a lot of WiFi/broadband, and the only real grief I have with WordPress and blogging from my phone is around the pictures I try to include in the blog posts and what a crappy job the WordPress android app does of uploading them. The
-
Mexico : Nogales → Santa Ana : May 2016
Rodney comes back to his bicycle shop, as he said he would, not long after I finish my last post. He has a couple of younger folks trailing him in a different car. They’re from the local news station and are there to get some footage of him expressing his views on marijuana in Nogales,
-
USA : Arizona : Catalina → Nogales : May 2016
I upload my previous post from Lupe’s and then cycle the last 8 miles to Maria and Art’s place in Catilina, which, turns out is a town separate from Tuscon by about 20 miles. Their place is up a bluff in a new, nicely executed housing development where the yards sport native cactus in well
-
USA : Arizona : Tempe → Catalina : May 2016
I gotta say, Tempe is pretty great. I stayed three nights there, and while I’m still not inclined to do a play-by-play, I have to say that Veronica and Michael were both super great to get to know. I met three sets of their friends, rock climbed, yoga’d, ate my first PB&J&Fried Egg, and honestly
-
USA : Arizona : Coconino NF → Tempe : May 2016
As I take a couple tablets, along with my last gulps of water just after waking up, I jokingly think to myself that ibuprofen is like water in tablet form in the sense that, lacking sufficient water, it’s the next best thing to alleviate a dehydration induced headache. I also have a couple of granola
-
USA : AZ : Sedona → Coconino NF : May 2016
The open air sleep was pretty great, though a touch cool just before daybreak, enough so that I’d pulled the bag over my head by then. While puttering and packing, I heard what sounded distinctly like the flame thrower of a hot air balloon. But it sounded loud enough that if that was what it
-
USA : AZ : Cameron → Sedona : May 2016
I Started the day with a lovely sunrise from my roadside perch. The route into Flagstaff was only another 45 miles, but included a 2000 foot ascent over about 7 of those miles. I could see the top of the climb from its outset, and it looked deceptively close. When I got to it in
Jeremy's Bike Blog 