That´s it. The ride´s finished! I reached the Ecuadorian border on Thursday after 10,020 kms of pedalling and decided that was far enough. The creaks from both the bike and my legs were becoming quite impressive and its definitely time to give the saddle sores a rest.
So I´m now back in Lima and met up with Emma yesterday. Fantastic!
Its been an amazing trip with extremes of weather, landscapes and tiredness, but four months of cycling every day and pretty much being totally alone is long enough. Its been a tough journey but definitely worth it with countless buzzing times. I just can´t believe that I´m not going to be cycling any more (ever again hopefully!), though I´m sure I´ll be able to think of something else to keep me occupied.
So the plan for now is to chill out for a few days together here then catch a bus up to the Cordillera Blanca (where Touching the Void is set) to do some trekking. Then that´ll be the end of anything remotely energetic and we´ll be heading up to Columbia´s Caribbean coast to spend the last month on a beach.
So this is probably the last post on the blog, though we´ll try and keep the photos updated. Thanks so much everyone for all of the comments through the trip. They really did help.
See you all in the summer.... ben
8 comments:
Hey Ben,
Fantastic you've finished, wonderful photographs. Hope the two of you are OK and you have a great holiday together. Hopefully see you before the end of the summer. Do they do Addlestones down there?
Thinking of you both
Richie and Alyssa
Congratulations on completing your trip!! I can't believe you're finished, it doesn't seem like that long ago you were just beginning it! Sounds like you had a wicked time, and you've got great photos to remind you of all the mountains you cycled up :-)
Have a well deserved break, and hopefully catch up with you both when you get back to the UK.
Congratulations buddy well done! Say hello to Emma and hope to see you both in the summer.
good effort fat boy. Enjoy the rest of your trip.
see you sometime soon hebson
good work beej, looks awesome, bit dissapointed you shaved your beard off though, was looking forward to seeing you on fells with your ronhills and that beard, look forward to catching up in the summer.
ps hebson is gay
Howdo Ben,
Just seen this blog for the first time now after following the link from facebook. I didnt even know you were doing this! Ill have to sit down and read all of it one day, it looks amazing from the photographs!! Congratulations, I really dont know how youve managed that (i mean the bike ride, not the beard!)
All the best
Andrew Cunliffe (aka Cuni)
Great adventure - this shouldn't be a blog, but a slog.
John
(Emma's cousin)
I am not sure why I have come to love swarovski so much maybe because it is Austrian and I love Austria!
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