by PeterMurtagh-user | Feb 8, 2023 | Blog
February 8th 2023, Quito Even before arriving in Quito, things were starting to look good. When I’m biking, I tend to just ride and when I’m hungry, I stop somewhere that looks vaguely OK and eat whatever is going. Well, rattling along the Panamericana E35...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Feb 7, 2023 | Blog
February 5th 2023, Riobamba. Leaving Guayaquil was a relief, to be honest. I had done next to no biking in the previous 10 days and I was beginning to feel guilty. Yes, I had gone from the city down to the coast and spent two days at a resort named Playas. But that...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Feb 6, 2023 | Blog
January 29th – February 4th 2023, Galápagos Islands.I know I am in the Galápagos Islands because, when walking from the plane to the terminal building on Baltra Island, there’s an iguana asleep in a flowerbed right by the edge of the footpath. At first, I...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Feb 6, 2023 | Blog
January 23rd 2013, Machala, EcuadorCrossing from Peru into Ecuador proved to be a frustrating experience. When one enters the frontier complex, which is run jointly by both countries, the first building is the Peruvian customs operation. You queue up at a black glass...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jan 28, 2023 | Blog
January 25th 2023, Cabo Blanco.There are a couple of ways out of Paita. One is directly back onto the Panamericana. OK. So we know what that heralds — a flashy duel carriageway north and out of Peru. The other is a lesser, local road that hugs the coast and...
