Photo of the Day: Copper Canyon

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Mexico’s Cooper Canyon. Coming from Baja and traveling toward Chihuahua we took the train just so we could travel through this canyon. This picture was taken at the train’s only real stop, where everyone unloaded and crowded into a little viewing platform to glimpse this canyon. Special thanks to Flickr user Itinerantlondoner for marking this [...]

Watching Le Tour De France

Watching Le Tour De France

As I sit here now, watching the final stages of the 2010 Tour de France, it is incredible to think of all that has happened on this year’s tour. The first few stages were a train wreck of crashes and disasters, those were some of the ones we were able to see while we were [...]

Biking Argentina’s Wine Country

We began our bike-tour of the Argentina while we were still in Salta. Unable to go mountain bikes we managed to find some ‘regular’ bikes to go for a spin around to the surrounding towns. The bikes were slow, we were out of shape from all this great food we’ve been eating, and we couldn’t [...]

Los Pinguinos (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)

Los Pinguinos (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)

After “mountain biking” with several companies in Mexico only to ride flat gravel paths we were convinced there was little commercial mountain biking to be found in Mexico. Although we had been in real bike shops in Mexico, none of the tours turned out to be real mountain biking. And then we met Ursula. Taking [...]