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A female solo cycling trip in South America, from LaPaz, Bolivia to Ushuaia, Argentina between October 2013 and March 2014
After 1300 km, 5 pinched tires, two falls (one on each knee so it's balanced), meeting dozens of wonderful people and countless magical landscapes, I finished the Carretera Austral in a little less than a month. I think I have reached a peak of enjoyment,...
Just before Christmas I headed towards Mendoza to re-enter Chile and get a new 3-month visa as I was going to stay a total of 4 months in the country. I had planned to stay 3 days in Argentina then go spend the holidays back on the chilean coast in Valparaiso...
Two weeks already and more than 600 kilometers that I've been slowly cycling down the Chilean coast, and I have to admit overall it's been a delight. As my brother says, I'm now cruising, I found my pace, and after 2 months I enjoy my own company when...
After meeting my fellow biker Gonzalo in Vina del Mar, we took a night bus to head 1000 km south of Santiago, in Puerto Montt, where the Carretera Austral starts. On the first days, we enjoyed a comfortable, easy paved road, where I felt like flying after...
It is about time to tell you about the last weeks about my journey before it's too old to remember! I am actually back in the Yukon, and it is a bit heartbreaking to go through these memories that already feel so far away, even though I've been only back...
Well, if I ever wondered why I had undertaken this trip (and there are many reasons), last week´s route was one of the highlights I was looking forward to in terms of landscapes, and it really surpassed my hopes! PS: you can click on the pictures to see...
It took me less than three days to get from Sucre to Potosi, and I have to admit that the paved, wide road brought back my pleasure of biking. I entitled this post "between earth and sky" because I think cycling gets close to flying when the conditions...
Wow it's already been 10 days since my last news, time flies... As I mentioned in my last itinerary update, I left San Pedro and cycled 100 km to Calama in the middle of a blooming desert (which started by a pretty long mountain climb); when I got up...
Well I spent much more time than initially planned in Potosi; not that the city deserved that much time, but I've been in a sort of waiting zone for a few days. Waiting for some news from the job I had applied for, considering I haven't heard anything...
Well, it has been a pretty challenging week since my last post; I had the hardest 350 km bike ride of my life... It took me a couple of days in Sucre to recover before telling you a bit more about it. About 10 days ago I left Oruro with my biking partner...
My stay in San Pedro is coming to an end, and I can't say I've been the most active here, it was simply the perfect city for farniente, in the best southern meaning: chilling, relaxing, taking it easy. The sunshine, the little fresh breeze were a delight,...
After the challenges of Bolivia, the enjoyment of cycling solo on the Chilean coast, the latest part of my trip has been placed under the sign of social life. It all started about 50 kilometers past La Serena, as I was entering the Elqui Valley. I encountered...
After my last post, I was supposed to leave LaPaz with a Canadian couple and a Swiss couple, but when we left the Casa I quickly realized that the weight of my belongings was not properly organized among my saddlebags, which created strong vibrations...
5 days that I've been in Bolivia now, and I feel like I've already discovered so much! The first days I suffered of the high altitude (4100m, 13.450ft), and found it very humbling to be in a country in which I don't speak the language (I ended up developing...
It´s already been a week since I arrived in Sucre, and if I wasn´t paying attention I could easily stay for a while in this very pleasant city. As much as I felt pretty lost in LaPaz even after a week, I found my marks here in no time; I guess it´s largely...
Yesterday I met a cyclist from Poland while visiting the Casa de Ciclista (apart from him I mostly met French and Canadians there), and it seems like we can hit the road together tomorrow as we're going the same way for a few days, so I have one more...
No halloween in Bolivia, but a gathering of all the families at the cemetery to celebrate their deceased members. The place was filled with freshly cut flowers, offerings, and even musicians gathered around the graves. The belief is that the dead come...
In a few days I'll fly down to Bolivia to start my cycling journey, that should take me through Bolivia, Chile and possibly Argentina too. First I'd like to apologize to my Francophone fellows and family for having chosen to write in English, simply I...
Almost two years have passed since the end of my journey through South America, so it is time for a little update. A week after I returned from my trip back to Canada, I told my parents I was going to move to Chile... And I did so exactly a year ago,...
Los Angeles, 10pm, 3 more flights to go before LaPaz. In the plane coming from Vancouver, I started reading "In the Siberian Forests" by Sylvain Tesson. The author spent 6 months in an isolated cabin on the Baikal lakeside, a dream he wanted to achieve...
As my SPOT no longer works, I'll use a good old method to update you on my trajectory. Not much time to tell the latest tales, it'll be for later, but to make it short I cycled from San Pedro to Calama, where I took the bus to Antofagasta as the road...
