Mid December 2022. In planning for this 2022/2023 leg of our Alaska to Patagonia odyssey we were faced with two choices: riding south from the latitude of Santiago, Chile, or…
Mark WatsonJanuary 1, 2023
Early December 2022. Following on immediately from our last blog post, from El Sosneado our plan was to make a deeper dive into the Andes following a large portion of…
Mark WatsonDecember 17, 2022
November 2022. I had imagined that the first post I wrote from our return to South America would be full of reflection on how it feels to be back on…
Mark WatsonDecember 16, 2022
| The Journey is the Destination | This post will be the last, for now, of nearly four years of regular dispatches recounting our life on the road cycling from…
Mark WatsonApril 5, 2020
| Parque Nacional los Alerces | As most of our readers probably know, we're now back home in New Zealand, safe with family and passing our days in self isolation…
Mark WatsonMarch 30, 2020
| A Taste of Home | Getting underway with our ride south into Patagonia has been like entering some sort of luxuriant paradise. For the first time in many months…
Mark WatsonMarch 10, 2020
| Ruta del Captain José León Lemos | We've now crossed the Andes between Chile and Argentine four times (via Pasos Socompa, Pircas Negras, Agua Negra and Portillo de Piuquenes),…
Mark WatsonFebruary 29, 2020
| Friends in High Places | Between finishing Ruta de los Seis Miles in Guandacol and arriving in Mendoza (where I'm writing this post) we crossed the Andes two more…
Mark WatsonFebruary 12, 2020
| Traversing the Chilean/Argentine Puna, Part II | This post covers the second part of our Ruta de los Seis Miles odyssey. Where the northern half was 18 days riding…
Mark WatsonJanuary 30, 2020
