Inuvik to Ushuaia
Into Mexico
We are in Magdelena de Kino. We rode 68 miles yesterday through - from
Patagonia through the border crossings to Imuris, Sonora, Mexico. What wonderful folks.
All sorts of people giving us waves and friendly beep and calling out from
the side of the road. The Nogales border crossing from Mexico to the
United States was had a line of semi trucks three deep and miles long waiting
to get into the USA. We got so many waves and beeps and whistle it was
almost embarrassing but I still kind of enjoyed the attention.
As evening approached we got looking for a place to camp for the evening a
guardian angle appeared. This American from Tucson stopped by the edge of
the road to say hi and ended up escorting us to his house 20 miles away.
He drove in back of us with his lights blinking and flashing. Our private
support vehicle. Bill is truly an angel. read more here... lee mas aquí... »
Camping in the Sonora Desert
Riding along the four-lane divided highway that is Highway 15 I was thinking about some of the things I like about Mexican drivers. Two things I like:
1. The Mexican drivers do their absolute best to give us some space on the road. The truck drivers try to move over as soon as they see us (and there are two lanes in each direction, so it works most of the time).
2. Mexican drivers know how to use their horns to communicate, not just to irritate. They have one honk to say "watch out" and another to say "go for it" and yet another to say "hey -what a beautiful woman!"
Camping at the rural police station
We stayed a police station last night. Evening came, and dark was nipping at our heels as we came to a intersection of two roads. The store and the gas station were the only thing around and they were both closed. The man with the little hot dog stand was closing up but had four hot dogs for sale which we gladly purchased and greedly wolfed down.
In the dark we noticed another building with a TV playing and a police car in front. We went to the door and knocked. We asked permission to camp there at the police station, a very safe place to stay.
Two of the policement asked if we needed anything.. I said yes - I would like two cans of beer. They went to the town many miles away 45 minutes later drove back with their lights flashing. The beer had arrived.
There are 5 guys who live at the station for a week to ten days, 24 hours a day. They make 100 dollars a month. Wow. read more here... lee mas aquí... »
Site Navigation - Our Various Trips
Here are links to our various trips - we've taken the links off the front page so it can concentrate on the current trip.
Our Big Trip - Arctic to Antarctic, Canada to Argentina, North Pole to South Pole
- Canada: Inuvik to Victoria (June-August 2006) blog triplog route photos
- USA West Coast (Washington, Oregon, California (August, September, October 2006) blog triplog route photos
- Mexico (starting in Arizona) (January 2007 - ???) blog triplog route photos
Older Rides: Central Mexico (2003)
blog triplogOlder Rides: Great Divide down to Copper Canyon (2003)
Older Rides: Denver to the Pacific Northwest (2004)
Older Rides: New England (2005)
Contact Information
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Our phone number is +1 303.241.7711, but you can also call our SkypeIn number at 303-731-3611 - it's a little easier for us. Our Skype username is randyfay.
Our physical address is:
1340 Zenobia Street
Denver, Colorado 80204
USA
But we're not home right now!
Website Updates - Hope you like it
We re-did the website - Hope you like it! You can now get to lots of things on the links up on top. Some of the changes:
- Info from all of the trips is available in order if you want it that way. It's kind of hard to read everything backwards! So for example, you can choose "Canada" from the top of the screen and read about our Canadian adventures in order.
- Buttons on the top lead you to the most-commonly-requested articles.
- I added a "Contact" page in case people want to get in touch with us.
Luis Alfonso Valencia - Bicycle commuter near Navojoa
Do you notice the wonderful reflectors he has for safety on the back of the bike? They're discarded CDs. So why do we use anything else? We're going to try to get some for our bikes.
In the flat agricultural region from Navojoa to the sea we saw many, many cyclists, mostly on bikes like Luís's. In one small city we saw three bike shops in one small region of the downtown. And we've seen bike shops in several towns we've been in. We're just hoping they have some of the parts we need when the time comes.
Candelario Viniegra Chavez in his 6th grade classroom
Exhacienda Minera near Batopilas
Even today there are mining activities in the far mountains in Copper Canyon where new roads have been built giving people access to areas of this region where before only foot access was possible.
