Week 130. Not as planned. In last two weeks there wasn’t a single thing that went as planned. It was overwhelming and brought both good and bad things. The bad thing – we’re still haven’t reached Puebla. Seriously, how hard can it be to cycle 300 km? Too hard, apparently. The good thing is that all the unexpectedness lead us to discover incredible things, like eating cactus, playing with tumbleweed, exploring rooftops of old monasteries and meeting a girl who travels with a cat!
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Quiz Friday! Here is Sven with a rescued cactus. When a new motorway was being built, this cactus was found in it’s way. Workers wanted to explode it with dynamite, but Etno-botanical garden in Oaxaca decided to rescue it. It wasn’t easy, because it weights many tons and has sharp thorns, but they made it! Question: How old is this cactus?
A 100 years old
B 250 years old
C 500 years old
The winner will get a personal kilometer as well as a place in our Hall of Fame (http://on.fb.me/1JAdFTC). The quiz ends on Monday (00:00 GMT). The winner will be announced on Tuesday(ish). The winner will be drawn at random from all the correct entries.
Week 128: Leaving Oaxaca Valley
Week 128. Leaving Oaxaca Valley. The first part of the week felt like running a marathon, even though we haven’t cycled. We were busy in Oaxaca with running errands, from 7am to 10pm. All of us – Sven, Kira, Tulku and our bikes – had check ups. We fixed our teeth, Tulku got medicine for her infected ear and our bikes got a lot of new parts. Luckily, we sneaked in some sightseeing and visited couple of UNESCO sites. Now we are in Mexican Highlands, on our way to Puebla.
What to Do With Theese
These are the parts that needed to be changed after 14.000 kilometers. Not really sure what to do with them now…
Week 127: Sight Seeing, Check Ups
Week 127. Busy week: cycling, sightseeing and check ups! We finally finished cycling the last big mountain and reached Mexican Altiplano. Here we already visited many sights like Hierve el Agua, Mitla and the biggest tree in the world (by grith). We set a base camp in Oaxaca as it’s time for medical and dental check ups as well as mechanical check up for our bikes. Also, we started making videos! One is already online and another one is still being edited.
We Made a Video
We made a video! LINK HERE: https://youtu.be/yTsIq-ktUUs It’s not our usual cycling day, but it was fun filming it! We hope you enjoy it! It has cycling, sighseeing and a UNESCO site. Share it with your friends and tell us what you think – it is our first video with scrip, editting and everything!
We made it to the top!
We made it to the top!
Quiz; Thorns
Quiz Friday! Here is Kira’s hand with a million thorns in it. To celebrate our arrival to the cacti land we dug out this picture from Guatemala, where Kira oh-so-slightly touched a bamboo. It was the place where we noticed that we are approaching the cacti land. Question: how long did it take to take out the thorns out of Kira’s hand? Hint: at least one hundred of them stayed in the hand for forever.
The winner will get a personal kilometer as well as a place in our Hall of Fame (http://on.fb.me/1JAdFTC). The quiz ends on Monday (00:00 GMT). The winner will be announced on Tuesday(ish). The winner will be drawn at random from all the correct entries.
Week 126: Climbing to the Mountains
Week 126. Climbing to the mountains. In order to reach Mexican Altiplano we have to cross 11 mountains. We have already climbed over 10 mountains, so there is only one left. It is the highest, the steepest and with the longest climb. Sven is excited, Kira not so much and Tulku is just happy, because she had her 8th birthday yesterday!
Week 125: Off to the Mountains
Week 125. Off to the mountains! We’re still not ready (not at slightest), but oh well… On the bright side, the landscape here is very different. Jungles are truly over for a while now, and we are surrounded by blue mountains, yellow grass fields and brown leave-less trees. The air is dry, it’s not that hot anymore and all plants have thorns. Also – cacti! Plenty of them all over the place. We haven’t seen them since Argentina and we are very happy to see them again.
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