16th – 17th February Distance – 124km Total distance – 686km Day 10 El Rosario was a good centre for us to make a pit stop; good hotel and restaurant so we could catch up and clean up. The plan from here is to ride down the main road and catch up time. With 15 […]
Nueva Odisea – Rosario…feeling cactus!
14th – 13th February Distance – 80km Total Distance – 562km Day 8 It was great to wake to the sounds of waves breaking on the beach behind us. We returned to Nuevo Odisea to stock up for what was to be a challenging two day ride through high back country tracks through the renowned […]
Ejido Erendira – Colonet – Nueva Odisea
12th-13th February Distance – 143km Total Distance – 481km Day 6 Ejido Erendira to Colonet on MEX1 highway was only a short day in distance. Due to another late start due to the ongoing communications issue, we decided it wouldn’t hurt to have a lighter day anyway. We set off into town from where we […]
Ojos Negros to Ejido Erendira
10th/11th February Distance – 127km Total Distance – 338.4km We hadn’t been able to get or BGAN satellite device to work, despite understanding how to work it, and WiFi in Ojos Negros was poor and intermittent. Eventually I managed to get an email through to Ground Control from whom I had hired it, and it […]
A Challenging Start
San Diego – Tecate – Ojos Negros 7th – 9th February Total Distance 202km It took longer that we thought to make a start, mainly because it was a major jigsaw puzzle to work out how to pack everything into all the various bags and ensure they are balanced on our bikes. It was midday […]
Introduction – preparing for riding down the Baja Peninsula
Welcome to the very first blog for the new Breaking the Cycle Education site. I am drafting this somewhere over the mid Pacific Ocean, half way between Melbourne and San Diego (via Los Angeles). I am both excited and petty exhausted because, after months of hectic planning, collating all sorts of gear from some very […]
