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BACK TO MAIN PAGE --- Cyclists we met II --- May 2009 - ??? (North America, Central America, ...) 21. and 22.05.2010, 01. and 02.06.2010, Trujillo and Cordillera Blanca (Peru), (again) Ed: Ed was just some days ahead. On the stretch around Paján he got mugged on the Panamericana by three "amigos" (see News and Reports, S-America). We meet him again in Trujillo, where he is trying for weeks to get new documents, creditcard,... Then we are ahead, but since we do some hiking in the Cordillera Blance, Ed is catching up and we are riding together for a day through an amazing landscape, until we go different directions again... www.edwardherbert.blogspot.com 
27.04.2010 and 02. to 07.05.2010, in Quito and on the way to Cuenca (Ecuador), Ed: We have met the funny British a couple of months ago for the first time on the Baja California (see post from 02.12.2009) and did not loose track of each other. We are at the same time in Quito and exchange experiances and stories of the last months. Ed is leaving a day earlier from Ecuador´s capital city. A few days later we catch up and ride together for two days across numerous ecuadorian hills, through fog and rain until Cuenca. Here our paths seperate again. Ed stays in the hills and we are riding down to the coast...  
20. and 21.04.2010, from Ibarra to Quito (Ecuador), Juan: Juan from Venezuela is crossing our path on our second day in Ecuador. He wants to wheel around South America and started two month ago. For two days we are riding numerous hills and great downhills together and cross the equator. Before coming into Quito we part again, because we ride different ways to get to our Quito-hosts... www.enbiciporsuramerica.blogspot.com  
 
14.04.2010, Popayan (Colombia), Tim: We meet Tim in our hostel in Popayan. The US-American started two years ago and cycled through Central America. He worked for a long time in Medellin (Colombia) and just started some days ago to his second lap. He is on his way to Bolivia. 
04.04.2010, Medellin (Colombia), Carlos: Via our friend Alejo we learn to know the funny Colombian cyclist Carlos. In two weeks he will start a two year trip around South America. www.pedaleandoalma.org 
23.03.2010 - 25.03.2010, Cartagena (Colombia), Wai Ling, Andrew and Andy. On 24.03.2010, Olivia and Bhinti: We have already heard from the Kiwi-triple Andrew, Andy and Wai Ling (foreground on the left and middle in the back) being ahead of us. As we check into our hotel in Cartagena we see three bicycles parked in the yard. We spend nice afternoons and evenings with the three and talk about god, the world and flat tires. Wai Ling, Andrew and Andy started in New York and are on their way to Brazil... Wai Ling and Andrew: www.libertytoredemption.wordpress.com Andy Rowan: www.andysballbustingadventure.blogspot.com There are even more cyclists in town and on the 24th of March we are having cyclist’s dinner in a nice Pizzeria. Olivia from Germany and Bhinti from the US (background on the left) started in California and are already on the road for 15 months. Slowly, slowly they want to make it down to Argentina... www.crazyonbikes.com 
12.03.2010 – 15.03.2010, at the border from Costa Rica to Pamana and in Panama (Costa Rica and Panama), Stefan and Gareth: We met Stefan from Switzerland (right) nine months ago in Canada for the first time (see cyclists we met post from 17th of June 2009) and knew that it is just a matter of time when we will ride into each other in Costa Rica or Panama. We meet again exactly on the border between the two countries. Since a few days Stefan is riding together with Gareth from Great Britain. Gareth was backpacking in South America, but that became too boring for him, so he bought a bicycle and is riding criss-cross around Central America. Now he is on his way to Colombia to meet up with his girlfriend. Stefan is almost on the end of his trip. He is on his way to Panama City, where he wants to catch a boat to Colombia, from where he is flying back to Europe. We are riding more or less together with the two boys for some days and stay at a friendly Couchsurfing place and at the Catholic Mission in Tolé. Gareth’s bicycle is having more and more problems and we split again... 
01.03.2010, before getting to Managua (Nicaragua), Kim: Headwinds are turning our relatively short ride to Managua into a long torture, as a female solo-cyclist is "flying towards us". Kim from Scotland has started her trip together with a group in Panama and is riding solo since Granada. She is travelling from one social project to the other, is working on her way and wants to bicycle all over Central America. We chat for a long time beside the road, tell her our experiences in the countries ahead of her and advise her definitely not to bush-camp in Honduras and El Salvador – which was her actual idea... www.justgiving.com/kimcycles 
23.02.2010, along the beautiful coastal road in El Salvador (El Salvador), Mayeul: We are sweating like crazy while pushing up the hills of the lonesome coastal road in El Salvador, when the Frenchman Mayeul is coming from the other direction. He is a funny character and we enjoy exchanging experiences in Central America. As we stand and chat, he notices that one of his tires is flat and starts fixing it. It is easy to see: Mayeul is definitely not a mechanic – we have never seen someone fixing a flat in such a complicated way. It takes forever, but anyhow it gives us much time to talk J Mayeul has started his trip in Patagonia on a motorcycle, paddled with a raft in Columbia and is bicycling in Central America... www.carnets2cousins.canalblog.com 
22.02.2010, at the border from Guatemala to El Salvador (Guatemala), “the crazy” without a name: In the border-village of Guatemala we roll into another cyclist. He is a strange experience. His bike has a flat and he is trying to find a new tire, whilst he is selling self-made earrings to female fruit-vendors and is trying to sell us Marihuana after the first "hello", because he is running out of money. We deny, so he is loosing interest in us immediately and continues pushing his old bicycle through the village. The "man without a name" comes from Costa Rica and is travelling around Central America since two years – riding or pushing, who knows... 
11.02.2010, on the road close to Tecpán (Guatemala), Björn: Björn from Germany is coming north when we ride towards Antigua. He is wheeling Yucatan, Belize and Guatemala for a couple of months. 
02. and 03.02.2010, San Cristóbal de las Casas (Mexico), Paul: The first time we met the American Paul when we were camping together in a State Park in Oregon, USA. Now, months later, we meet again in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Mexico. As us, he was cycling along the west coast of the States, but then stayed on the coast in Mexico. Now he is on his way first to Yucatan and then turns south again towards Patagonia... www.panamericantour.net 
16. and 17.01.2010, Puebla (Mexico), Doro and Sven: We were in contact with the Germans Doro and Sven (left and right) via Email already since a while and had the plan to meet up in Puebla. Great that it really worked out, since they are actually coming the other way, and we meet cyclists going north usually only for a quick chinwag beside the road. Doro and Sven are already on the road since a year and are heading from Patagonia to Alaska. In the hours we spend together with these happy cyclists we exchange lots of information, warnings and recommendations. www.auf-radreise.de 
02.12.2009, La Paz (Mexico), Ed: We meet Ed at the Marina of La Paz. He is also trying to get a lift across the Gulf of California with a private Yacht. The British started in Vancouver and is riding down to Argentina. Together we are wheeling to the harbour where the Ferry is leaving. Ed is trying two more days to catch a ride... 
27.11.2009, shortly after Ciudad Constitución (Mexico), Dave: We were not long on the road today, as we are again running into a “north-rider”. Dave the Brit started in Argentina and is wheeling to Florida. We chat, joke and laugh for more than an hour, and one more time we feel sorry that we often learn to know the nice people just by passing each other... www.crazyguyonabike.com/daveholmes 
26.11.2009, only a few kilometres before Ciudad Insurgentes (Mexico), Tom: We leave the mountains of the southern Baja California behind us and are just rolling down a never ending hill, as we bump into the Canadian Tom. He started in February in southern Argentina and is on his way home (Vancouver). We are having a long chinwag beside the road and exchange tips for our journeys. It is a pity that we often meet cheerful people like Tom just by passing each other... http://blog.mosphere.ca/TomAndSJ/ 
19.10.2009, between fields of artichokes along the Pacific-coast of the USA (California - USA), Seth and Parker: We heard from those two tall US-American guys before and finally we met them. Seth and Parker are riding from Alaska to South America. Most likely we will see them again on the way south... www.pebblepedalers.com 
02.10.2009 until 07.10.2009, on the Pacific-coast of the USA, north of San Francisco (California - USA), Simone and Uwe: We meet the likeable German couple on a beautiful stretch along the Pacific-coast. The chemistry matches from the beginning and we are travelling together for some days, having a good time and freezing late at night, because we can’t stop chatting. Simone and Uwe are riding to San Diego, then in New Zealand, Australia and Southeast Asia. www.habebo.net  
31.09.2009, 06.10.2009, 07.10.2009. Prairie Creek Campground and on the way to Fairfax (California - USA), Anna: Anna from Australia is the first woman that we meet on our trip riding solo! She started in Deadhorse and is riding with an open end towards South America and probably further. We meet her a couple of times along the Pacific-coast of the USA. www.wishfish.org 
30.09.2009, on the road to the Prairie Creek State Park (California - USA), Tomo: It is already getting dark, as we get stopped by a roadblock. A helicopter has to land on the road to pick up an injured person. Here we meet the Japanese Tomo, who is riding from Vancouver to Patagonia. It is already dark as we are allowed to continue riding, and we are wheeling together through Redwood-forests until we reach Prairie Creek State Park Campground... 
17.06.2009, before Fort Nelson (British Columbia - Canada, Stefan: The Swiss guy comes from the other direction. He started in Vancouver and heads for Alaska, and then further on somewhere… The sky becomes dark after we part and it starts raining heavily. 
15.06.2009, just after Tetsa River Lodge (British Columbia - Canada). Ed: We are rolling down a big hill (already seeing the next uphill in the distance), when we meet Ed from the US sweating uphill. We talk shortly, as the mosquitos are getting annoying. Ed is also travelling towards Alaska www.ed.longkruse.com 
15.06.2009, Tetsa River Lodge (British Columbia - Canada). Dave: We just fill up our water bottles, as Dave starts talking to us. The friendly American is cycling to Alaska. His wife is accompanying him by car, but he still carries all his gear on his bicycle... www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/davesdream
12.06.2009. After Watson Lake (British Columbia - Canada). Cal and Dee: We are not yet long on the road that day, as we meet two trike-lists. Cal and Dee from Kansas are on the road for about half a year, cycling from home to Alaska and back...
07.06.2009, about 20 km after Teslin (Yukon - Canada). Kristian: We had just decided to keep going for another 1-2 hours, as we see Kristian from Berlin parking his bicycle beside the road. He is in a bad mood, as the headwind, mosquitos and black flies are bothering him. But his mood is changing quickly for the better, as we are chatting and decide to camp together that night. It turns into a very funny evening with lots of cycle-stories J and uncountable numbers of stinging and biting insects L Kristian had started his trip about one and a half years ago in Argentina and is on the way up to Alaska, after that towards New York...
07.06.2009, just after Squanga Lake (Yukon - Canada). Henrik: Just after meeting Sohei we meet another cyclist, the likeable German Henrik. He is going northwards from the US up to Alaska. www.henrik.freehostia.de
06.06.2009 Squanga Lake, 10.06.2009 Watson Laken, 17.06. til 23.07.2009 cycling together from Fort Nelson til Fort St. John. (Yukon and British Columbia - Canada). Sohei: We meet the funny Japanese guy Sohei for the first time as we are camping at the Squanga Lake. Some days later we run into him again in Watson Lake. And again after some days we happen to camp together in Fort Nelson, where we decide to cycle together for the next days. Sohei carries a BIG LOAD of stuff! He is the most “loaded cyclist” we have ever met – and one of the funniest! His English is almost in-existent, so we talk with hand and feet. He is fascinating to watch as he puts on Nutella on his pancakes with chopsticks!! And he carries a coffee grinder! We camp together at very nice bush camps, roast marshmallows at fire places, play guitar, sing, watch a movie on our small EEE-Pc, while it is raining in the middle of nowhere... Sohei is on his first trip abroad, cycling around Alaska, across Canada, down to the US...  
 
01.06.2009, Alaska Highway – after the border Alaska/Canada (Yukon – Canada). Aaron: After a cold night on a great campspot we are riding our first kilometres into a bright day and meet Aaron from the US. With lots of luggage he is on his way to Alaska, where he plans to job for the summer, then hop on the bike again – we guess heading south ;-)
29. and 30.05.2009, Alaska Highway – before the border Alaska/Canada (Alaska – USA). Chris: All day long we have to take our raingear on and off several times. When the first sun is coming out we see a tent and a trike beside the road. Chris from Germany is welcoming us in his bad-weather-camp and we completely forget about time when we start chatting with him... Chris is well equipped (we really envy him for his solar-milk-frother :-) and on his way for five months from Whitehorse through the Yukon and Alaska... www.long-expeditions.de  
13.05.2009, Parks Highway, Denali National Park (USA - Alaska). Karin and Marten: We have just started riding the Americas two days ago in Anchorage and run into Karin and Marten from the Netherlands, who are also on their way to South America. They also stay with Ralf from "warmshowers" (www.warmshowers.org). We meet again and again on the ride to Fairbanks and in the Denali National Park and often camp together... On the way to Whitehorse we produce "Roadart" for them to cheer them up (see the creative page).
  
  
  
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