Leg 47 Sierra Vista - Nogales (Mar 23): 106 km, climb 611 m. Total distance 4747 km. Today was most likely the best ride this far. Nice morning with some scattered clouds but dead calm. The first 11 km along Buffalo Soldier road was [...]
Leg 41 El Paso - Las Cruces (Mar 14): 59 km, climb 344 m. Total distance 4147 km. So nice to wake up to a clear crisp (6C/42F) blue sky this morning with abated wind, only 10-20 mph (16-32 m/s) and no sudden gusts. [...]
Leg 39 Van Horn - Fabens (Mar 11): 145 km, climb 588 m. Total distance 4013 km. Chilly morning (6C/42F), luckily we had a 162 m vertical climb to warm us up to begin with. Long ride today along the interstate 10 under excellent [...]
Leg 35 Del Rio - Sanderson (Mar 6): 191 km, climb 1478 m. Total distance 3542 km. Well, todays distance was not 191 km. Riding that long in completely uninhabited country didn't feel safe, not to mention that we wouldn't be able to complete [...]
Leg 30 Alice - Hebbronville (Feb 26): 87 km, elevation 250 m. Total distance 2958 km. Nice and warm day, could ride in our bike shorts. First couple of hours in pretty thick fog. Ms. Google Maps took us along a lot of nice roads [...]
Leg 29 Corpus Christi - Alice (Feb 25): 82 km, elevation 132 m. Total distance 2871 km. Heading out of Corpus Christi today we hit some major oil indursty. The first 20 km was endless lines of oil plants disgorging smoke. Was like moving [...]
Leg 25 Galveston - Freeport (Feb 20): 58 km, 44 m elevation. Total distance 2532 km. 7C (46F), cloudy and windy. Texas is cold! Looking at the map todays ride should have been great, just a thin strip of land surrounded by the Gulf [...]
Leg 24 Port Arthur - Galveston (Feb 19): 143 km, elevation 138 m. Total distance 2474 km. Long ride today in cold, windy and wet weather. Shit, when planning for this adventure I was a little bit worried we wouldn't be able to carry [...]
Feb 18, recovery day in Port Arthur, well needed. Amazing to see how much of the planned route we've already accomplished. Mixed feeling, on one hand the feeling of just having started the journey and on the other hand Miami being so far in the [...]
Leg 23 (Feb 17): Lake Charles - Port Arthur, 123 km, elevation 161 m. Total distance 2331 km. Fifth concecutive day of biking. Exiting Louisiana through some nice swamp regions. Generally nice road condition. Crossing Sabine river and entering Texas, our fifth state during [...]