This is an overview of the Otso Voytek carbon plus/fat bike, covering our impression of these versatile bikes for long distance touring, as well as explaining how we set the…
Mark WatsonApril 13, 2020
| 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
| Chasing the Seasons | Today we only rode 47km, the road was paved and cars sped past at pace, but we had the luxury of a cycle path most…
Mark WatsonMarch 1, 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
| Traversing the Chilean/Argentine Puna, Part I | The Ruta de los Seis Miles is a 1300km-long remote bikepacking route that traverses the length of the Central Andean Dry Puna…
Mark WatsonJanuary 8, 2020
