George the Cyclist

Friends: It is about 600 miles from Paris to Cannes , mostly south but a bit east as well. This is the fourth year in a row that I have m...

Friends: It had been seven months since Eelco, a Dutch cyclist, and I had met on Hokkaido in Japan and spent a day cycling and camping to...

Friends: It was a long (nearly twenty miles), gradual climb on the autopista over a ridge of mountains and then a sharp descent into the val...

Friends: As I climbed towards the junglish Guatopo National Park , 60 miles from Caracas, more and more people told me it wasn't safe to...

Friends: As I sat in my tent last night after another great day on the bike, a most satisfying 98-miler, eating a dinner of garbanzo beans a...

Friends: After 350 familiar miles, doubling back on the only road to and from Santa Elena , I branched off at Upata towards the Raul Leoni D...

Friends: It is the dry season here, but what with the weather misbehaving everywhere, I´ve had a couple days of not so unwelcome rain. It k...