Heading to Mexico from San Diego gave us two options: crossing the border in Tijuana or crossing it in Tecate. Tijuana would have been just south of San Diego, but the border crossing there is super busy, with lots and lots of lanes. On the map, Tecate looked a lot calmer, with only one small crossing point and the extra day of cycling seemed worth it to us. On top of that…
We left the city of Page and cycled over the Glen Canyon Dam. The weather continued to be nice and warm and our rain gear sank deeper and deeper into our bags. Our next stop: Buckskin Gulch, a beautiful slot canyon with red walls. In contrary to the Antilope Canyon, which is bigger and more popular, but at the same time very expensive, this one was open to anyone for just a few dollars. We…
Cycling out of Salt Lake City was way better than our last big-city-experience in Calgary. The first 40 km were almost entirely on cycling paths! We left quite late and it was dark, when we finally made it to the spot, where we had planned to camp – a fairly big park with camp site amenities. Unfortunately though…
Our first longer off-bike adventure was about to start! The two biggest logistical problems when bikepacking is – what to do with the bikes, and what to do with the stuff that’s not needed on the hike? We didn’t have a car to just lock everything in, like nearly everybody else. Fortunately for us the welcome center had lockers…
After a week in Stewart, we were on the bikes again and cycled back to Meziadin Junction. It was raining and we started quite late. In Stewart we finally had internet to research what kind of berries we had seen on the side of the road the week before. They were thimbleberries and edible! So we stopped and tried them when…
We left Whitehorse early in the afternoon. We had bought so much food that we had a really hard time fitting everything in our tiny bags and ended up having to use our small foldable backpacks. But the choice and prices at the Real Canadian Superstore were just so good! At that would be our last supermarket for a while.
The wildfire situation did not improve much during our stay in Fairbanks. At least it rained one evening, which lowered the temperature noticeably. The morning we left Fairbanks, the AQI (Air Quality Index) in the city was at 150, which was not the worst they have ever had, but most likely the worst we both have ever experienced. Thick smoke was in the city…
