Peru
March 26, 2010 Nazca – Puquio I rolled out of Nazca at 8 am, and within 5 miles I was climbing like crazy and into some chilly mountain air. At the top of one of the passes I saw a familiar bike…and pulled in and caught up with Bruno and Nathalie (the Brazilian honeymooners). It [...]
Sunday March 21, 2010 continued Nazca! Have you heard about the Nazca lines? They are these lines in the desert–nobody really knows why they are there— made my overturning the rocks int he desert so that the darker sides of the rocks outline figures in the desert. They are best seen from high up, but [...]
March 21, 2009 After a week of R&R at Hipocampo, I felt ready to continue south. Here are some sights along the Panamericana: Just south of Ica I got an imp: something I’d read in Lonely Planet I wanted to see, so I took a detour and headed West towards the ocean… I followed this [...]
Well, the next week was a blur. I kept staying “one more day” at the hotel (ocean view with a clean room and free Internet and breakfast for $15/day? Heck yeah! The truth was, I wasn’t quite “right”. Each day I kept hoping I would feel good enough to ride, and each day I felt [...]
The Islas Ballestas are often referred to as the Galapagos of Peru (otherwise known as the poor man’s Galapagos because a tour costs only $15) Boats leave at 8 am before the sun bakes the tourists and before the wind picks up. It’s also prime time to see the animals. We were told by the [...]
March 12, 2010 I got an okay place to stay last night and got to bed early. Next day I didn’t have too far to ride to my next destination, just a little further south on the Panamericana. I thought chinchas were bedbugs? I now entered the Pisco region, famed for it’s “pisco” wine, here [...]
March 11, 2010 I am happy to be out of Lima, and I found it interesting how this must be where all the “rich” people of Lima go on the weekends…look at the advertising I saw along the way. Some of it quite impressive…. …or in this case suggestive. What do you see when you [...]
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March 10-11, 2010 Well, after my lovely episode with the Policia Carreteras, I continued on south to Lima. I did not like this portion of riding. wow. Riding in Lima wasn’t exactly picturesque, nor really as bad as I’d been prepared to believe, but upon entering I discovered that my horn had died. what irony, [...]
March 10, 2010 Feeling a little bit better, I decided to ride BACK to the coast and go to Lima. I wanted to avoid Lima, and I was already in the mountains, set to avoid it, but my “intuition” told me I needed to get the bike checked. I’d been trying to find a 525 [...]