by Odyssey | Oct 17, 2023 | Journey 2023
It was a beautiful ride through the mountains in the rain: no wind and many landslides, rough roads, and climbing. We did 76k and 2265 m. Rachel said the jungle was slowly covering the road. We had very little traffic, saw very few people, and hardly any towns. The...
by Odyssey | Oct 17, 2023 | Journey 2023
We continued traveling through the mountains of the region known as El Amazonia. Large green mountains shrouded in grayish clouds. Today’s ride avoided the ever-threatening rain, and we had a short 74k ride with 900m of climbing. We ended the ride in Mendoza, a...
by Odyssey | Oct 17, 2023 | Journey 2023
The ride down the mountain was the opposite of the cold, wet, windy, hyperthermia ride up the mountain. The downhill was long, and sunny and took us through one one the world’s most amazing valleys. There were waterfalls, rivers running high and swift beautiful...
by Odyssey | Oct 12, 2023 | Journey 2023
by Odyssey | Oct 12, 2023 | Journey 2023
Today we went in the van to clear Quito, because we had a dangerous tunnel and did not want to do that. We went to a place for breakfast and to start a short uphill ride. We rode about 30k to the summit. It was the highest point for the Octoodyssey at 4040 m (13250ft)...