| Mar 20 2014: Final Days in Colombia They play this funny game in Latin America, it goes like this: whenever you see an Asian person, the first one to yell out, "Chino!" wins.
— in Ipiales, NariƱo, Colombia
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| Mar 16 2014: Bicycle Diaries I can imagine traveling on a bicycle, watching the scenery move past you at such a languorous pace. Your heart pumping, muscles working hard, the only fuel you burn is whatever you last ate, and time dilates in such a way that the horizon only looks attainable at the end of the day.
— in Purace, Cauca, Colombia
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| Mar 12 2014: Rain Drops Keep Falling On My Head We roll into town, and just as we had predicted, the rains makes their appearance again. Depressing...
— in Popayan, Cauca, Colombia
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| Mar 08 2014: Greyed Out The rocks here were slate grey and seemed a lot more dusty and powdery than the red rocks we saw yesterday at El Cusco.
— in Los Hoyos, Tatacoa Desert, Huila, Colombia
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| Mar 07 2014: Redshift Within the shapes of the labyrinth, you can make out the areas where water once flowed to sculpt these weird stone shapes that we were walking around and on top of.
— in El Cusco, Tatacoa Desert, Huila, Colombia
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| Mar 06 2014: Jedi Nights in the Tatacoa Desert The guide and I were locked in mortal Jedi combat, his green weapon inches from my face as I tried to wrest the deadly sword from his clutches!
— in Tatacoa Desert, Huila, Colombia
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| Mar 04 2014: Mudder-FAH...!!! My front wheel hits the far edge wrong and gets deflected sideways. I lose all momentum and the bike is leaning precariously to the left, so I put a foot down to dab myself back up so I can throttle out. But all my foot touches is air... ocrap...
— in La Plata, Huila, Colombia
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| Feb 24 2014: Down and Out of Commission in Cali More bike troubles force us to visit our second home on the road: BMW Service Centre.
— in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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| Feb 21 2014: Caf-Fiend! All I could focus on was how my right knee was tapping out a frenetic message in morse code against the underneath of the tabletop. Strange.
— in Hacienda Valencia, caldas, Colombia
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| Feb 20 2014: Many Zealous Churches After dinner we're going to fly us and the bikes to the Sahara Desert.
— in Manizales, Caldas, Colombia
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| Feb 18 2014: Lost Carcosa The shadows lengthen in Carcosa, where black stars hang in the heavens, and strange moons
circle through the sky. But stranger still is Lost Carcosa!
— in Cocora Valley, Quindio, Colombia
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| Feb 15 2014: Progress is Arrested We're told the fine for crossing a double yellow is that our motorcycles would be impounded for five days, and that we'll have to wait till Monday morning to plead our case with the judge.
— in Armenia, Quindio, Colombia
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