For the sake of our friends and family living on the West Coast I will try not to mention how hot it is here or the relentless sunshine. Hope it gets warmer there. From San Vincente de Chucuri we rode for about 3 hours on gravel and then found a paved highway. On the way out of San Vincente de Chucuri Jacklin saw a few cocoa farmers harvesting their crop and stopped to ask if we could try some cocoa. The farmer split open a yellow ripe cocoa pod and we devour...

Feliz Navidad everyone.  We are enjoying sunny days during this Christmas.  After our hiking to the glaciers in El Cucoy we have been back in hotter climates.  We doubled back to a village called Guacamayas which was a fun 13 km ride downhill on pavement.  Our destination from here was Capitanejo.  Sometimes the road we take chooses us.  We ended up on a road created for farmers and livestock and not vehicles.  We were skirting the inside of a valley with...

Leaving Aquitania we had a nice ride through rolling farmland around Lake Tota and onto Iza which is known for hotsprings and impressive variety of desserts - we enjoyed both. Then uphill to Mongui and a hike up to the Paramos. Beautiful ecosystem found above 3400m and near the equator. To start the trek people usually walk the 3km to the trailhead. When Juan found out we had bikes he suggested we ride it. We thought "3km, sure, no problem". What he did not ...

We were told it would be very difficult.  They were right.  It was 4 days of the hardest cycling that we have ever done, but it was also one of the most beautiful riding that we have done and would do it again. Yopal and the Casanares plains were hot and humid at about 500 meters above sea level.  We are now in Aquitania at about 3000 meters above sea level and the temperature is much cooler, almost cold. We started the climb from El Morro where the heat rea...

People in Colombia are so friendly and it’s a great place so far. On the way to Yopal we had to take the main road which is busy with trucks. They give us as much space as they can but the challenge was the roadwork. Worst was a stretch of single lane alternating traffic, over 5 kms with uphill, 31° and humid. It was a real push because we knew the traffic at the other end was waiting for us to come through before they got the go ahead so we were very relieved...