See you again, Alaska
We end where we started. In the great outdoors with high ceilings and landscapes that are so magnificent that we have to pinch ourselves to be absolutely sure that it is reality. Alaska has always been high on our list of places we want to visit. We, like so many […]
Packrafting in Denali National Park
Our last post ended with us getting ready to sail down the Yukon River for four days, from Dawson in Canada to Eagle in Alaska. We were very excited. On what it would be like to sail with the bikes and all our gear. What we would think of it. And then the Yukon. […]
From the land of fire to the sea of ice
There are 930km from Dawson city to Tuktuyaktuk. There is only one road, the Dempster highway. Since last November, it has been extended all the way to the Arctic Ocean, rather than stopping in Inuvik. Before the new road, you could only get out to the sea and the small Inuit community of Tuktuyaktuk, in the winter, by […]
The Many Faces of America
Do you know the type? The TV program where a couple of 'anthropologists' visit the home of a well-known Dane and try to guess who lives there. That's how we feel today. We walk around an empty house and look at all the objects that say something about the owner. Here is a stuffed mountain goat, a large four-poster bed […]
Mexico, food and people
We stand and look out over the Rio Grande River. It is smaller than we thought. You could probably easily swim across if you really wanted to. Many have tried. Many have succeeded. But on the other side of the river, they will be stopped and sent back to where they came from. On the other side is […]
Guatemala – Mayan culture in a modern world
On a cold January 4, 2017, Pia Flores sat and watched Go' Morgen Damark when she was visiting her homeland. After she had seen the feature with two lunatics who wanted to cycle the length of America, she wrote to them: 'You must finally write when you get to Guatemala City, I will give a […]
Midway party
6 countries. 10 months. 13,000 km. 142,000 meters of altitude. And an extremely large number of cups of coffee. These are the key figures for what we can from now on, and for all eternity, brag about: Namely, that we have cycled the length of South America! We are actually quite proud of that. That is quite an achievement. But when it […]
The ravages of time have chewed a hole
In the blog The Ride South, Paul describes how people thought he was homeless when he wanted to change money at the coin laundry in the United States. We sat in our lovely apartment on Vesterbro and laughed about it in our clean-no-holes-nice clothes carefully selected from the closet in the morning. It was fun. Now we laugh at ourselves in […]
The Dammer family – heart space and house space
We wake up early to the cows being milked in the room below where we sleep. We lie in bunk beds with two other cyclists in a fantastic room built from sustainable materials. With mud toilet and hot shower, heated by the sun. We are on the Palugo farm in Ecuador. An organic farm, outdoor school and home for […]
The old ladies laugh at us
We enter a market, someone laughs behind me, I turn to see 3 elderly ladies with gold butterfly patterns on their teeth. They think I'm the funniest thing they've seen today and giggle and laugh and one of them says "Miiiiister" after me. We stop at a roadside restaurant, immediately people talk to us. […]