Have you ever wondered what its like to be a packmule? Wandering the nasty trails and the Paramo for days at a time? I leave the bike behind for the authentic Colombian Packmule experience, no tourist package would offer you that!

A little comparison of all the bikes I've gotten to ride over the years and how they measure up for bikepacking/touring.

half paramo and half volcanic mountain side - it was time to ride towards the Nevado del Ruiz!

Overview of navigation at the end of year 3. Alpine Quest, Garmin Etrex20, OSM, Googlemaps, Paper and plain old asking people where to go

Riding through the foothills of the Cordillera Oriental to the Tatacoa Desert

Looking for bears, trails, sunshine and dry feet in the paramo in winter.

Back to the mountains and done with the heat! The only problem - rain season is starting

Running far and running free in the plains of Colombia. Eating like a trucker, napping like a dog and rolling like a moto! 

The continuation of Colombia, by invitation of a friend in a completely opposite direction of where I want to go. Why not! Searching for the beauty in the Paramo, the dust in the plains and the mysterious pink dolphins in the rivers.

One last ride for Deadhorse up to Los Nevados.

Riding a little bit of the Transandalus mountain bike route in Spain en route back to Colombia

A missed connecting flight in Spain and looking for the silver lining in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

The good news is the bike was there and the bad: I was in Khasab and my raft was waiting at Dibba, the only road had a military checkpoint not allowing foreigners to pass. How could I get over the Musandam Peninsula again without taking a ferry?

Where to go from Dubai? Paddling around the Musandam peninsula on a rubber boat, avoiding military bases, 6 times stopped by the coast guard, sleeping in sheikh's house in Kumzar and in the old cliff dwellings amongst the khors.

from the fresh mountains of Colombia to the urban wilderness of Dubai. A short visit to the Emirates for the Dubai travel festival and a little break from the trip south to Argentina.

riding through the colombian mountains in search of the dirt road warriors!

Meandering through the Colombian lowlands in hopes of reaching the mountains. Cows, coffee and busted rear hubs. 

Year 2 review of the bike, bags and tires

After 2 years it's finally time to leave North America and what better way than to cross the Darien Gap along the Caribbean coast. Through the San Blas and the Guna Yala territory to Colombia!

The last bit of Panama before paddling The Darien Gap. Few days of pavement, heat and humidity on the Panamerican Highway

Packrafting 600km of The Mackenzie river and riding down The Dempster Highway.

Bikepacking one of Canada's toughest trails - the 400 kilometers of 70 year old road (or no road) over the Mackenizie Mountains from the Yukon border to Norman Wells.

The South and North Canol road in the Yukon were built in 1943 by the American Army to service an oil pipeline from Norman Wells to Whitehorse. It shut down only 2 years later but today, the Yukon maintains the first 452 kilometers of the road to the Northwest Territories border.

A 6 day ride, paddle, bushwack over the coastal range to the Kemano power station and 4 day oddysey over the ocean channels back to civilization

Some of what goes on in the forests of British Columbia and Alberta. Why not go to work and live in the bush each summer and plant one hundred thousand trees?

Few months ago, I learned a very important lesson. One day in El Salvador I had the opportunity to ride a motorcycle for the first time without a license, insurance documents or a working rear brake... to a police stations... to climb a volcano.

Two week backroad ride around the volcanoes, the hills and the jungle of Panama. From cycling down Volcan Baru to a two day bike-drag through the jungle to the Caribbean!

There are two main ways to leave Costa Rica, the Caribbean or the Pacific. I took the third, crossing the tall central mountains and into Panama.