This project with Conservation International attempts to harness the deep and longstanding cycling culture of Colombia to highlight the need to look after these paramos.
Cycling adventurist, bikepacker, travel writer, photographer, speaker, professor of philosophy. Route designer of Ted King's VTXL, the Green Mountain Gravel Growler beer tour, the Silk Road Mountain Race course 1st edition, and many more.
Category: South America
Colombia postcard
Saturday swirl darkening evening sat just to watch, frosting color blinking lights in barely chilly, more people sound motion than might have been imagined by the plaza architects. The whole town here. Couples in nice […]
Colombia postcard
Stacked cloud piles, scale against which we judge the immensity of blue. Déjà vu homemade nativity scene in front of a church that looks like it’s going to fall over, roofpeak Mary smug between the […]
Colombia journal
Gregarious full voice, skylit eyes that we’ve encountered in so many Colombians, it never goes away though there are times they mark and times they mask. He’s mentioned his farm up in the hills, it […]
Colombia postcard
Open mouths on this steady ten, twelve percent, drift right, toward the bottom of the basin of the lifting curve where it’s slide moss bright green slime for a gutter. Chug sputter, Willys Jeep careens […]
Colombia Group Ride
We’re all laughing so hard we’re doubled over heaving for breath, I’m in tears. Hardly ten minutes into the ride, Ivan flats, he and John are working through the change and Ivan has backed against […]
Bogota’s CicloRutas
Bogota’s celebrated urban network of bikeways, when you look at the latticework map, picturing the loops and outs and backs, the commute or ways out, it stuns with forward thinking audacity. The reality more in […]
Bogota postcard
Lean forward, side sway to see the tops of buildings, taxi accelerating to stop bicycle hard cases clunking behind us. Concrete and the trees, maybe the fences make it look like a brick Miami, it’s […]
Colombia Trip Planning I
Two in two suitcases, one by design the other not but can, a welcome evolutionary spandrel. Mountain bikes for a revised plan, one that involves airlines, buses for some big spans between altitudes, deserts, jungles, coffee plantations hillsides. Tracks, trails, […]
Colombia bound
Returning to South America to Colombia’s glorious history and present, not least of which is bike culture but then again culture in a thousand more ways—a highlight for so many. A short holiday span, 1100, […]
Joe Cruz 