Intro I spent Day 320 anchored to Cabanaconde, watching the dust motes dance in the clear Andean light while my body staged a quiet revolt. The weather is a crisp 20.3°C with a light wind, but the transition from the coast to these heights has left me feeling like a […]
Intro It’s nearly 10:00 PM in Cabanaconde, and the cold is beginning to seep through the thin walls of the Posada del Conde Clasico. Today was a vertical tax on the lungs, starting in the freezing shadows of Huambo and topping out at 4,020 meters where the air feels thin […]
Intro Day 318 began at a high-altitude roadside crossing, with the mercury sitting at a crisp 13.2°C under a perfectly clear sky. I rolled out of my warm sleeping bag at 06:00, knowing the day’s menu would be just as demanding as the 1,282 meters of elevation gain ahead on […]
Intro I’m writing this with toes that feel like ten little ice cubes, waiting for my sleeping bag to do its job. Today was Day 317, and on paper, a 23-kilometer ride looks like a coffee run, but when those kilometers involve 1,163 meters of vertical gain under a relentless […]
Intro I rolled out of El Pedregal this morning under a relentless, clear sky that pushed the mercury to 21.2°C before I’d even cleared the town limits. My panniers felt leaden, stuffed with a three-day grocery haul of avocados, bread rolls, and fruit intended to get me through the arid […]