Category Archives: Bicycle touring

Campeche — pirates on the Gulf Coast

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Bryan Keith

Crossing from Yucatán to Campeche took us from milpas to agribusiness.  I hardly expected that such a straight line on the map could delineate such a difference on the ground.  If you don’t know what a milpa is, think Milagro … Continue reading →

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Yucatán — time among the Maya

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Bryan Keith

An overnight bus ride from Zihuatanejo to Mexico City and another overnight ride to Mérida.  From there I started pedalling again.  Jack arrived in Mérida a little after I did on a plane to Cancún and a bus from there.  … Continue reading →

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Antalya again, Turkish again

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Bryan Keith

Back in Erzurum, back in Hopa, back in Akhaltsikhe, back in Borçka, back in Bayburt, back in Ankara, back in Antalya.  I feel like I’m doing circles.  I do intend to start bicycle touring again.  Soon.  Maybe.  For now I’m … Continue reading →

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Trekking in Yenice, Karabük — more fall colors

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Bryan Keith

There you have it.  Four months of touring on one compact map.  I’ll call this chapter of my tour The Pontic Alps Explorer.  From Erzurum to Bayburt (with detours).  Haha, I really did start this tour in Erzurum after taking … Continue reading →

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It’s too late for the Çoruh

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Bryan Keith

A slow, rotten death that I had the opportunity to experience firsthand.  A mistake and disaster on the scale of Glen Canyon.  It’s over 200km from Muratlı to İspir and just about all of it is or will be flooded.  … Continue reading →

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