See you again, Alaska
We end where we started. In the great outdoors with high ceilings and landscapes 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 would like 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. About what it would be like to sail with the bikes and all our gear. What we would think of it. And then on the Yukon. […]
From the land of fire to the sea of ice
It is 930km from Dawson City to Tuktuyaktuk. There is only one road, the Dempster Highway. Since November last year, it has been extended all the way to the Arctic Ocean, instead of stopping in Inuvik. Before the new road, you could only get to the ocean and the small Inuit community of Tuktuyaktuk, in the winter, by […]
The many faces of the United States
Do you know the type? The TV program where a couple of 'anthropologists' visit the home of a famous Dane and try to guess who lives there. That's kind of 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 looking out over the Rio Grande River. It is smaller than we thought. You could probably 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 lies […]
Guatemala – Mayan culture in a modern world
On a cold January 4, 2017, Pia Flores was watching Go' Morgen Damark while visiting her homeland. After she saw the segment about two crazy people who wanted to cycle across America, she wrote to them: 'You guys must finally write, when you get to Guatemala City, I'll give you a […]
Midway party
6 countries. 10 months. 13,000 km. 142,000 meters of elevation gain. And an extremely large number of cups of coffee. These are the key figures for what we can boast about from now on, and forever: 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 exchange money at the laundromat in the US. We sat in our lovely apartment in Vesterbro and laughed about it in our clean-not-holed-nice clothes carefully selected from the closet in the morning. It was funny. Now we laugh at ourselves in […]
The Dammer family – heart and home
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 a dirt toilet and hot shower, heated by the sun. We are at the Palugo farm in Ecuador. An organic farm, outdoor school and home for […]
The old ladies laugh at us
We walk into a market, someone laughs behind me, I turn around and see 3 older 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, people immediately start talking to us. […]