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Final missive of three incredible years!

Reflections So how does one summarise the most incredible experience of a lifetime? It’s as impossible as the adventure itself! I have been on the road for the best part of three years, with minor health interruptions! I’ve had the opportunity to ride Bob in 5...

Job Done

Video Update - Final Miles...Well as many of you know, my final days ride in to Banff was washed out, and so I was determined to finish off the Divide as I had intended….on the Divide. It was a matter of finding the right time when it wasn’t raining! Since I arrived...

Fernie to… Banff (almost!)

So here we are….(nearly….see below) at the end of an incredible adventure. The last section of the Divide is a steady uphill drag from Fernie to Banff, with the last bit downhill…some sort of perverse reward for the near 200,000ft of climbing up to that point! I left...

Continue to Pie Town

Day three to Pie Town;I slept really well but gee it was a cold one this morning. I lay in my tent and contemplated whether to get up or just lie here for a few days! John, the guy who invited me to tea last night, popped over with a jug of coffee and an ‘over easy’...

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Outta Dodge

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...

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Days 3 through 6 (feels like day 300)

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...

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Silver City

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!...

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Day one of the Divide….Gulp!

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...

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Here we go!!

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!...

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