Distance: 45.93 km Ride time: 2:00:00 Average: 22.96 km/h Max speed: 56.35 km/h Total: 35264 km It required a bit of adjustment to return from the high octane life I had been living in the US for the last 10 days. On the other hand, when returning to everyday life means cycling around the world, [ Read More ]
The Dayton Hamvention might have ended, but my US adventure certainly had not. Paul had been putting together a road trip involving a lot of driving, visiting radio friends, watching a baseball game, a music tour of the South, and much more… We were supposed to drive together from Ohio to North Carolina to visit [ Read More ]
At some point a long way down in South America it was my goal to be in Dayton, Ohio for the annual Ham Radio Convention in the middle of May. With all my long breaks in Peru, Colombia, and beyond, it became clear that this was not going to happen… at least not by bike. [ Read More ]
Distance: 27.70 km Ride time: 2:22:04 Average: 11.70 km/h Max speed: 44.82 km/h Total: 35216 km Only a short two hour ride to my friend Jorge TI2HMJ’s house outside of San Jose, but when all 27 km are uphill even such a short distance can be hard enough. Also way from the Pacific coast, Costa [ Read More ]
Distance: 111.32 km Ride time: 5:33:14 Average: 20.04 km/h Max speed: 53.21 km/h Total: 35188 km There are good and bad places to get a flat tire – a good place would be next to a tropical beach. When it happened I made a break out of it, went down to the beach, had a [ Read More ]
Distance: 69.41 km Ride time: 3:42:17 Average: 18.73 km/h Max speed: 51.68 km/h Total: 35077 km I didn’t get much sleep in my tent last night – simply too hot and too many mosquitoes. As a result I aimed for a short day to the tourist town of Quepos where I knew there would be [ Read More ]
Distance: 106.20 km Ride time: 5:38:21 Average: 18.83 km/h Max speed: 54.36 km/h Total: 35008 km Wow, this was a cycling day as they should all be… easy cruising through a tropical landscape altering between rain forests and picture perfect beaches. The rumours that Costa Rica is a beautiful places certainly turned out to be [ Read More ]
Distance: 92.38 km Ride time: 4:26:35 Average: 20.79 km/h Max speed: 43.05 km/h Total: 34902 km I didn’t have many expectations when I arrived in Panama but I have very much been positively surprised. The people are as friendly as in Colombia, and there is so much diversity – from the sky scrapers in Panama [ Read More ]
Having hiked all night towards the summit of Volcan Baru, an extra rest day was certainly in order once we returned to the Bamboo Hostel in David. I like this place with it’s tropical garden, swimming pool, and associated tropical animals and birds walking around. The mornings here are hot and clear, but as we [ Read More ]
I had convinced Mariana that climbing Volcan Baru would be a real adventure, so one morning we were catching the bus to the mountain village of Boquete. Boquete in itself is a charming place with an alternative feeling to it. Many tourists stop by, and a large number of foreigners have even settled here. We [ Read More ]
