by PeterMurtagh-user | Feb 15, 2023 | Blog
February 10th 2023, Rosas. They lugged their belongings in plastic bags and in shopping bags, in pillow cases and cardboard boxes, and in those weekend break suitcases with the little wheels, utterly useless in the circumstances but what can you do? There was...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Feb 14, 2023 | Blog
February 8th 2013, Ipiales, Colombia. “What do you think,” I said to the Ecuadoran customs officer in military-style uniform sitting under the little canopy by the roadside, “he gave me 86,000 Colombian pesos for $20. Is that good?” The customs...
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...
