I couple of weeks ago while planning my route through Mexico I noticed I would be in Cancun a few days before the 4th of July. I thought it would be very nice to arrive in the United States on Independence day, so I go myself a Jetblue ticket on this date. My flight was [ Read More ]
I was spending a day in Cancun updating the blog and preparing the next part of the adventure in the US – including going to a bike store to pick up a box for the flight. The next morning I woke up to what would be my last day in latin America – and I [ Read More ]
Distance: 66.6 km Ride time: 3:18:39 Average: 20.1 km/h Max speed: 31.3 km/h Total: 37830 km I woke up feeling very tired – it might have something to do with the Tecate beers from last night. I was happy to know that there was only 60 something kilometers between Playa and Cancun, and it would [ Read More ]
Distance: 62.3 km Ride time: 2:48:47 Average: 22.2 km/h Max speed: 30.2 km/h Total: 37760 km The first thing on my program this morning was to visit the Maya ruins of Tulum. I remember the site from my visit to Mexico in 2008 – not so much because of the ruins themselves, but because of [ Read More ]
Distance: 95.2 km Ride time: 5:02:18 Average: 18.9 km/h Max speed: 28.4 km/h Total: 37694 km Knowing that today would be even more desolated than yesterday, I had learned my lesson and downloaded 6 hours of pod casts to my phone. I’m glad I did – only passed a single restaurant the whole day. The [ Read More ]
Distance: 115.6 km Ride time: 5:26:27 Average: 21.3 km/h Max speed: 33.5 km/h Total: 37591 km I left my beautiful camp site by the 7 color lake early in the morning and headed inland towards the town of Carillo Puerto. This part of Mexico is really desolated. In fact I don’t remember seeing more than [ Read More ]
Distance: 102.4 km Ride time: 5:09:51 Average: 19.8 km/h Max speed: 34.6 km/h Total: 37472 km It had pretty much been cloudy and rainy ever since I entered Belize a couple of days ago. Now, that might sound like a bad thing, but this part of Belize usually gets really really hot, and the clouds [ Read More ]
