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 […]
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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 […]
Breaking the Cycle Greenland… never mind the weather
The Nordlandair flight from Akureyri, Iceland’s northerly capital, just below the Arctic Circle, to Constable Point in Northeast Greenland, about 71 degrees N, was spectacular. The Greenland coast was fringed by kilometres of fragmenting sea ice, gradually dispersing into the North Atlantic.
