What a barren landscape. After three days of resting at this shoddy motel in Truth or Consequences I made the decision to try and get across to Pie Town, which is a stop point on the trail. It’s a 200+k ride across the mountains and ‘savannah’. There’s a stop at...

From whence I had come…*Day 3 (feels like day 300)* Last night we crashed at a hotel in downtown Silver City, an old mining town with historic buildings. The hotel certainly was historic…by that I mean it urgently needed updating! I had a bad night as I was having...

Silver City After a pretty rough nights sleep - tenting takes a while to get back in to the swing of it, so I tossed and turned all night, deciding I’d had enough by 6, so got up and went for a walk with my loo shovel and paper for morning offload! No toilets here!...

Dust StormAs I traveled on the last leg of the flight to El Paso I sat next to a couple who live in the town. They enquired when I was planning to ride to Hachita, the start of the Divide for me (about 45k from the official start). I noted I’d be going on Tuesday. You...

Here we go… So you know when you plan every last detail, then one small thing tips them all over….So my taxi was booked for 03:00 to get my bus. I’d liaised with the taxi company before hand advising I was travelling with a bike, and they confirmed they’d send a van!...

  Well, having slogged to get back to Cork after a bumpy few months early in 2024, little did I realise that bumpy and all as that was, it was nothing compared to what was to come! On arriving in Cork I stayed with my dear friend Barry for a few days, then I had...