If you didn’t already know, and were wondering what I am doing with myself now that I am back in the UK (I have been for a few months), then I thought I would tell you: I am writing a book about my Take On Africa bike trip. That’s what I’m supposed to be doing [...]
This latest short video is from our ride along the back roads (and virtually non-existent roads) of Nevada and Utah. We did eventually make it to town though. A rather big one in fact – Las Vegas! Was great biking, if somewhat hard work at times… If you’re interested, there’s more on this bit of [...]
One of the most beautiful roads I’ve cycled has to be highway 12 in Utah. From Torrey to Zion National Park, passing via Calf Creek Falls, Bryce Canyon and Red Canyon. We camped all the way. There had been snow a couple of days previously, it was still cold, and the ground still white. By [...]
And here is the video for the second half of our Nicaraguan packrafting adventure. From the confluence of the Rio Bocay, we paddled down the Rio Coco passing several Miskito villages. Some nights we camped in Honduras, others in Nicaragua. Eventually we made it safely to San Carlos below the rapids, which we either ran [...]
There’s no doubt about it. Packrafting in Nicaragua was one of the highlights of my journey through central America. Apologies for not yet finishing the blog of the trip. I will do it. In the meantime though, here’s a video of the bus ride from Jinotega and the following four days paddling it took to [...]
With only a couple of weeks left until the end of this trip, where I fly out of Cancun, Mexico, I wanted just one more mini-adventure. And it would be in Belize. I had read on Cass Gilbert’s blog of an off-road route he had taken through northern Belize. Having missed the fun dirt-track biking [...]
With only a couple of weeks left until my flight home from Cancun, I decided to spend it cycling the length of Belize, including off-road riding… Belize is a little country with a lot to offer. I didn’t make it to the most likely of places (not even the world’s 2nd largest reef), but I [...]
From the Caribbean coast in Guatemala, we cycled inland and up hills to El Salvador. A brief stop in San Salvaldor to recuperate and we hit the cross-country route Honduras. And that was much harder than either of us expected… killer hills and roads not on our map. But it was fun too (in a [...]
…And so we survived our first day and night on the river. But who knows what the new day will bring… It brought crocodiles. The day started calmly. The early morning hovering mist had dispersed and a blue sky emerged. All was still except for the few birds that had missed the dawn chorus. A [...]
It was a good feeling to be reunited with the bike. No more at the mercy of rickety buses and well worn backpacker routes. Even cycling across Tegucigalpa was ok. Except we got lost. But then we were shown the way by a father and daughter in a large 4×4. The last day in the [...]
