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- Nicaragua
No story as yet, but some photos in the gallery http://journals.worldnomads.com/thefuegoproject/gallery/19475.aspx with a more detailed description than usual to give an idea of our time in Nicaragua.Enjoy!Read the original article here.
- Honduras and Diving Utila
For months we’ve been looking forward to diving on Utila. Utila is one of the Bay Islands, in the Caribbean Sea, off the northern coast of Honduras. Also for months we have had our doubts about cycling in Honduras, because of political instabili
- Flores to Punta Gorda
Flores to Punta Gorda 26/8/09 - 6/9/09 545 kmWhat kind of sound does a howler monkey make?... It’s 4am and we awoke to the sound of howler monkeys singing in chorus through the canopy of the jungle at the ruins of Tikal. It was a call and res
- Xela to Flores
9/8/09 - 20/8/09 Xela to Flores 445 kmWell we did it, we finally left Xela after a few previous attempts to do so. It had been one of those places where no matter what you try to do, you may never leave. What started as a few weeks of Spanish langu
- Lago de Atitlan, Volcan Pacaya and Antigua
Xela to Lago de Atitlan, our overland trekking adventure. Rina and Lior our fearless guides from Quetzaltrekkers, led us over the mountains, past a highland town called 'Alaska', through cloud forests, past highland villages, past treacherous lands
- Oaxaca to San Cristobal de las Casas
13/5/09 - 22/5/09 Oaxaca to San Cristobal 468 kmOaxaca is a great city to enjoy some downtime, relaxing with our cycling friends Martin and Susy, checking out Monte Alban, wandering the markets and artesanias, the leafy ‘zocalo’ and workin
- Guadalajara to Oaxaca
13/4/09 - 7/5/09 Guadalajara to Oaxaca 1204 kmThe days in Guadalajara with Nobu, Hiro and Ken fly past. They are captivated by the city with its climbing wall, cinema and skate boarding and decide to stay longer, while we get back in the saddle, wa
- Mazatlan to Guadalajara... lagoons, volcanoes, agave and tequila
30/3/09 - 7/4/09 Mazatlan to Guadalajara 534 kmAfter nearly two months off the bike, we saddled up and rode out of warm and sticky Mazatlan where we had enjoyed a tranquil time with our amiga Chamely and her puppy ‘Blitz’. Mazatlan itself was
- Baja California Sur...gray whales, sea of cortez and the endless
21/1/09 - 4/2/09 Guerrero Negro to La Paz 840 kmSometimes things happen exactly at the right moment. For us this was meeting Vincent and Michel, two Swiss cyclists, who also started their expedition in Alaska in May, and were on their way to Arge
- Baja California Norte
10/1/09 - 19/1/09 San Diego to Guerrero Negro 724kmIt is a fine and sunny day in San Diego, the chickens are scratching in the yard, ‘the Casita’ (our home for the past week) is cleaned and bikes are loaded into the back of Merle’s pick-up tr
- Christmas and New Years with Caroline: San Francisco, Yosemite, M
During Christmas holidays we flew to San Francisco for a two week holiday with Caroline, alias Coenie, Anna’s best friend from the Netherlands. Our week started off with a sightseeing tour of the city on the Hyde and Powell tram, an exhilarating r
- Las Vegas to San Diego...the Mojave desert, Joshua Tree, the Salt
Our entry into Las Vegas is great. Google maps instructs us the shortest route to our host, of which four miles are on 'the Strip', the epicenter of casino's. Along the way we see marriages in small wedding chapels and a red leather booted Elvis giv
- Bryce Canyon to Las Vegas...hoodoos, Zion and the North Rim
As we pushed on into the wind for the last 15 miles uphill to Bryce Canyon, Anna spots another cyclist riding up behind us. 'Could it be Wayne?', we spot the beard, the cap and the dark bags, 'it is!'. He had been pushing hard to catch us on the hil
- Moab to Escalante.... Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef and the G
It wouldn't be a stay in Moab without hitting the world famous trails and slickrock. We were lucky enough to have some local mtb guides in Nancy and Rachel who took us on an epic ride from the slickrock trail, up the hill nine miles to the Porcupine
- Wyoming to Utah: the Flaming gorge, Fruita singletrack and Moab
After the snowstorm passed, we left Jackson WY on a sunny but cold afternoon. We pushed untill after sunset, and found ourselves on a high plateau, the Green River Basin, the sagebrush covered in a thick blanket of snow.The temperature overnight dro
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