In the footsteps of the Inca. Aside from its magnetic cultural interest, one of our reasons to visit Cusco was a desire to use it as a base for more…
Mark WatsonApril 26, 2019
City Break. Hello all! It has been a long pause between blog posts but I promise that they'll start to become slightly more frequent from here on. Currently we're in Cusco…
Mark WatsonFebruary 21, 2019
Alone on the Altiplano Here's the story of our 570km ride from the Bolivia/Peru Border at Deasaguadero back to sunny Arequipa via some remote stretches of the departments of Puno, Tacna…
Mark WatsonDecember 5, 2018
Bolivia, briefly. As I described in our last post, our original plan had been to enter Bolivia for just a few days and then turn north, towards Cusco, where we were…
Mark WatsonDecember 2, 2018
Introduction Bikepacking is a new name for an old sport: multi-day mountain biking or dirt-road touring with an emphasis on travelling light and seeking adventurous routes. Ever since the late…
Mark WatsonNovember 12, 2018
More Cones and Canyons. This post comes from just inside the Bolivia border, at Copacabana. It has been a fascinating and tough 10 day ride from Arequipa to here, once…
Mark WatsonNovember 11, 2018
Welcome to our gear list V3.0. Edit - for the latest list (V4.0), go here. After two years and four months non-stop on the road since we left Deadhorse, Alaska…
Mark WatsonOctober 29, 2018
Climbing Volcan Chachani. We arrived in Arequipa nearly three weeks ago, and it's from here I compile our latest post. Leaving has become something of a daily joke as we keep finding…
Mark WatsonOctober 28, 2018
Cones & Canyons Part Two. Northern and central Peru are shaped and defined by the great mountain ranges of the Cordillera Blanca, Cordillera Huayhuash and the less-glaciated Cordillera Central, but by…
Mark WatsonOctober 22, 2018
