Category: South American epic
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Section 2, part 3: Coffee and Cocoa
Day 24: Pasto to Ipiales, 40k We rode the bus to lunch so we could ride to a tourist attraction/catholic pilgrimage site, Las Lajas Sanctuary. The planned ride was about 85k and the tour director recommend that we skip to lunch so we could ride the extra 12k round trip to the church. Bruce and…
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Section 2, Part 2: Coffee and Cocoa
Day 20: San Augustin to Coconuco, 110k The morning started out cool and cloudy. We had a long decent before we started to climb. Bruce missed the first turn on the descent and added about 20 minutes and 5k to his day. We began climbing into the town of Isnos. We stopped at a bakery…
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Section 1, Part 3: Undiscovered Country
Day 8: Medellin to Pipinita 91 k We joined with the Siclas group again for the convoy out of the city. We had to ride in a group on the highway during morning rush hour traffic. I continue to be amazed that Colombian drivers are beyond aggressive, but everyone seems to be patient. I have…
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Section 1, part 1: Undiscovered Country
Day 1: Cartagena to Maria Labaja, 90 k We left Cartagena at 6:30 am, rode in a large group throughout the city for the first 20k because drivers are crazy in the city and its our first day. Once out of the city and industrial parks we quickly approached rural Columbia: Beautiful rolling pastures,…
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¡Estamos aquí! We are here!
When we walked off the plane at the Cartagena Airport we were greeted with a blast of hot and humid air. The walkway was line with lush pergolas overhead and bright smiles from airline workers. We were ushered into the dreaded customs lines, which surprisingly only took 40 minutes. Once we got to baggage claim,…
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