Manual del Ciclista Valeverguista
El Valeverguismo IntegralHace muchos años, un par de amigos me platicaron sobre su filosofía de la vida, prima hermana del Budismo tibetano y ligeramente semejante al Zen: El valeverguismo integral, que principalmente consiste en no preocuparse demasiado y dejar que las cosas pasen: Heráclito lo resume mucho mejor que ellos con su principio de, Panta Rhei (lit. todo fluye). Es decir, deja que…
After sleeping under the stars for 978 days and travelling the entire length of the equator several times, he packed his bike into a neat little box and boarded a flight back to his home country. He was a borne adventurer, a rough man with a steady, firm, handshake and worn out hands that would regularly get him out of trouble in his travels. He arrived at the airport with time to spare, checked…
I feel a pretty deep connection to Holger Franz Hagenbusch. I met him on a beatiful morning on the mountain pass between Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl. I recognized him instantly as a fellow bike traveller. I had looked exactly like he looked in december 2010 when I had climbed that very road to Paso de Cortés with my bike, on my way to Chiapas and eventually Cancún, just like him.
Skipping most…
Postales del fin del mundo.
We have always needed to work to get what we want, that isn’t new. From time long past, the work we required to do involved a certain amount of physical activity, we traded abilities for goods, goods for other goods or daughters for land, all of them required hard work. Even after currency was implemented as a medium of exchange, after Plato’s Akademia came into being (the birth of the geek who…
…Fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot…
Getting to the summit of Izta with v.good weather
Peña Ordóñez, Iztaccíhuatl
Weekend at Iztaccíhuatl with Luna and my first rock climbing teacher :-)
Yelapa is a very small fishing/mountain beach town. It is cramped in between the mountains and the ocean, and so far away from it all thato credit cards are kind of useless and it’s streets aren’t wide enough for cars, i.e., perfect for walking. You can drive there, but only on a beat up 4wd track through the mountains; the best way to get there is on a boat (water-taxi) from the town of Boca de Tomatlán, 30 minutes south of Puerto Vallarta on a classic folksy bus that you can catch from the centro.
Mountaineering, if that’s what you mean… is rather useless. What drives a man to climb a mountain is a psychosis of sorts, an instinct of evasion against common life and to a point, oneself. But it is an instinct, and as such it’s partially blind.
Memories of my time in Puerto Vallarta. Sunsets, sand, sorrow and a sinking feeling. I was there for eight months, but it felt like a slow moving trip.
#type1 1600 1982 @110 Cruising all over the mexican landscape inside a car with more WWII history than a many textbooks #vw
From Kirkenes to Oslo by Bike! Exploring the Scandinavian peninsula: Midnight sun, ferries, random travellers, fjords, trolls, mountains (!!!) and epic roads. Filmed using a smartphone… Riding, filming and production (if you can call it that) by Everardo Barojas – climb.mx
Music, inspiration and lyrical support by Jaxx “Low-C” Landry
The open road, the moving landscape and the promise of freedom. What more can you say? There are many sets related to my Norway trip, but none of them encompass the trip as wholly as this one – The beginning: the map. The trip: the roads and Oslo, The End.