Ride The Road

Around The World On Two Wheels

TAIWAN

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Overview | How We Rate This Trip | Route Descriptions & Maps | Road Stories Overview The yin and yang and yuck. In April 2019, we bought into the concept of an around the island designated bike route. In summary it was 50% urban highway (yuck), 30% marginally OK (yang) and 20% nice highway and bike path […]

Colombia

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Overview | How We Rate This Trip | Route Descriptions & Maps | Road Stories | For What It’s Worth Overview     Colombia is a gorgeous country with friendly inhabitants. It has world-class colonial cities and towns. Bogotá is a bike friendly city especially on Sundays when many roads are closed off to motorized […]

Uganda

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Introduction January 1996, we rode through Uganda because a group of four American engineers, who traveled the world on bicycles for 6 years, included it as a highlight of their trip. The people impressed the engineers as both friendly and colorful. They were right. The main roads were either newly improved or under construction. The […]

Morocco

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Overview | How We Rate This Trip | Road Stories Overview We rode through Morocco in 1990 and can’t find our trip notes. They’ve got to be here somewhere. Picture us rummaging around in our attic. Page down to see the photos – we found them. How We Rate This Trip Roads: 6 Traffic: 5 Weather: 7 Winds: […]

How We Rate This Trip – Malawi

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Roads: 7 The main roads are paved, very good and frequently there is a paved shoulder. Occasionally, the paved roads have no shoulder with steep drops from the pavement, which makes it difficult to get out of the way when the road is congested. The dirt roads are ok except near the lake, where roads […]

Uruguay Route Descriptions & Maps

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February, 2003 – Itinerary Montevideo to Piriapolis 102Ks Out coast road, bike path and sidewalk most of the time. Then on a road which becomes a new four lane quiet road to El Pinar 36Ks. Straight on smooth dirt road to end, left 1/2 K to 1B. Views of beach. Moderate traffic, but you avoid […]

Uruguay

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Overview | How We Rate This Trip | Route Descriptions & Maps Overview When we rate any country simply by overall impression and feel, invariably our system of 15 criteria fits this impression. But Uruguay is a system buster. Our overall impression is lower than the score it gets, mostly because it fails so much in one […]

Chile Route Descriptions & Maps

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Chile to Brazil December 2003 – March 2004 Santiago to San Felipe 97Ks Cross the river and ride out Independencia Avenue (It’s very quiet on Sunday AM) We used minor streets to the left (west) of Independencia Avenue after the bridge (4Ks) then 10Ks to start of Highway. Independencia is the best way. Sometimes a […]

Chile

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Overview | How We Rate This Trip | Route Descriptions & Maps | Road Stories | For What It’s Worth Overview On a glorious sunny day in southern Chile, you think it’s the best biking area in the world. Suffering through two weeks of clouds, wind, and rain—erase all of this. It’s as simple as this: if […]

Fiji Route Descriptions & Maps

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Nadi to Sigatoka on Queens Highway 63Ks 2-lane, no shoulder, polite traffic, less and less traffic as you go. Some trucks. Very gradual rolling hills then at 17Ks a gradual to moderate 3K climb. Uninteresting rural scenery. Variable winds, plenty of sweat, occasional rain. Sometimes it rains for hours. Gradual 1-2K climbs and descents. Occassional […]