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leaving guatemala

Once again, I’m leaving. A few parting images of Guatemala.

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2011 03 18 anna on my bike Comments (0)

leaving san jose

I’m always leaving and so you’d think that I’d be good at it.
But I’m not. It pains me considerably to rupture the friendships that are forming, despite themselves, with the people at Bio Itza.
Reginaldo invites me to eat with him and his family on Friday night and then the following day Paula, the school director, [...]

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2011 01 23 anna on my bike Comments (1)

leaving mexico

Since the extreme temperatures in the middle of the day make an early start imperative, I decide to try to get my papers sorted when I return from Yaxchamil so that I can get on my bike and leave first thing in the morning. I locate the immigration office opposite the museum and approach the [...]

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2010 05 27 anna on my bike Comments (0)

back on the bike

My stay in the area of Mexico City and Puebla has turned out to be a very extended one. By the time I ride out of Puebla, heading south towards San Cristobal de las Casas, in Chiapas, it is almost two months since I first arrived in Mexico City and I have only ridden the [...]

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2010 05 06 anna on my bike Comments (0)

under the volcanoes

By the time I pack all my gear onto my bike and ride out of Mexico City, it’s almost a month since I first entered the city. I’m on my way to Puebla, only a 130 kilometres away, where I’m going to meet an organisation that works with socially excluded children and adolescents with the [...]

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2010 04 10 anna on my bike Comments (2)

solo again

It finally stops raining and I leave Zacatecas.
I am armed with detailed maps, obtained from the Secrectaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes, of the states that I will pass through next. These maps are the only ones I’ve seen that detail secondary roads and dirt tracks with any degree of accuracy but acquiring them is a [...]

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2010 02 19 anna on my bike Comments (4)

zacatecas

We arrive in Zacatecas after dark and make our way through the bustling town to find Victor, our couch-surfing host, in his student digs.
Victor lives near the centre of town in a tiny semi-derelict house. Amazingly, the limited space Victor has at his disposal doesn’t prevent him from unquestioningly offering four cyclists accommodation. Victor is a [...]

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2010 02 16 anna on my bike Comments (0)

leaving guachochi (finally)

We are not overjoyed to be back in Guachochi; it is a charmless town that most tourists probably don’t spend more that half an hour in, if that. However, we are waiting for Cass to return from the UK and the state of Jeff and Jason’s wheels means that there is no possibility of leaving [...]

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2010 01 22 anna on my bike Comments (0)

baker

I continue on corrugated gravel track across the desert. The road is being worked on as I ride and the surface is deep and loose. The men working in the graders stare at me, as if I might be a mirage, as I pass.
I’m so glad I chose to struggle across the rough dirt tracks [...]

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2009 11 04 anna on my bike Comments (1)

on the road again

It occurs to me, as I ride out of the Bay Area, that I am always leaving – and that it suits me. Which is not to say that it doesn’t also pain me somewhat, at times even considerably; but the melancholy that leaving produces in me is so familiar that I wear it like [...]

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2009 10 22 anna on my bike Comments (1)