Archive for April, 2006
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
Getting Ditched in Arequipa
So I performed brilliantly on the traveling thing today. I managed to make it all of 10 minuted before I got lost…or my sister her ex and this Peruvian guy ditched me depending on how you look at it. Hardly an auspicious start I have to say. So we emerged from our hotel at roughly [...]
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
Thoughts on Peru
So Peru is a bit of trip, or maybe it is normal for South America, and I have just been far too spoiled by traveling through the South American version of Europe, only with hotter women and cheaper prices (yes you read that right). Slight aside: after a while, you feel like you need to [...]
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Bike Ride Day 46: 3/04/06
Bike Ride Day 46: 3/04/06 75 km from Custos to Firmat along rte 11
Time in the saddle: 5 hours
Conditions: Rain and wind were the clarion calls of the day. There was a constant headwind, made painfully and drenchingly obvious by the wind that showed you in no uncertain terms that it was all up in [...]
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Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Bike Ride Day 50: 07/04/06
Bike Trip Day 50: 07/04/06 50 km from Salto to Carmen de Acero
Time in the saddle: 3 hours
Conditions: The last day had a vague head wind and some slight hills. The weather was not too hot, the traffic was only heavy on a 5 km stretch after we turned towards Carmen. The asphalt was genearlly [...]
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Thursday, April 6th, 2006
Bike Ride Day 49: 06/04/06
Bike Ride Day 49: 06/04/06 55 km from Rojas to Salto along rte 31
Time in the saddle 3.25 hours
Conditions: Laziness and knowing the end is rapidly approaching is what made this relatively short trip so “long”. Granted, there was a constant, if mild, headwind, which certainly didn’t help matters, and there were a few areas [...]
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
Bike Ride Day 48: 05/04/06
Day 48 5/04/06 50ish km from Colon to Salto along rte 8 and then 31.
Time in the saddle: 3 hours
Conditions: Not really so nice, although made worse by self inflicted stupidity. What, yesterday, was a great tail wind, suddenly flipped and was now a head wind…which made the miniscule uphill bumps seem much more impressive/daunting. [...]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
Bike Ride Day 45: 01/04/06
Day 45: 4/01/06 90 km from J. Posse to Corral de Bustos
Time in the saddle: 6 tough hours
Conditions. Hot and windy…not the good kina of wind pushing your butt along, but the kina that occasionally surges into your FACE and forces you to ride that much harder. The wind switched its orientation yesterday….not us…and the [...]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
Bike Ride Day 44: 31/03/06
Day 44: 31/3/06 125 km from General Featheringham Hernando to J. Posse
Time in the saddle: 5.5 hours
Conditions: Once again really good. The wind continued to blow from the Northwest, which is very convenient for two people riding towards the south east. Route 6 doesn’t have all that much traffic, and is well paved. Although we [...]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
Too tragic
Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates.
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
Bike Ride Day 43: 30/03/06
Day 43: 30/3/06 60 km from Oliva to General Featheringham Hernando
Time in the saddle: an easy 2.5
Conditions: These are the days that are made for bike riding. The weather wasn’t very hot, helped by the fact that Tess, as a British woman unaccustomed to real heat, is quite sensible about getting up and starting early. [...]
