Its been hard getting used to the weight of the bike, everything handles in slow motion and you really feel that weight on the uphills especially since I'm doing like 4mph.
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| Fellow bike tourer Ernesto. He started his trip in Nicaragua and has planned a two year journey. |
I found Ernesto resting at a bus stop between Tulcan and Ibarra. We talked for a bit and found out we had the same destination so we started riding together.
Day one was from Ipiales, Colombia to Ibarra Ecuador. It's about 50mi but the hills are brutal. We started seeing all green and damp then we descended and it became very arrid. They closed the road for an hour twice because they were cutting a mountain face to widen the road, those shovel operators are fucking crazy.
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| Cool monument between Tulcan and Ibarra |
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| Crazy operator |
Due to the road closures we weren't gonna make it on time so we picked up a ride before it got dark. When we arrived to Ibarra it must've been around 18:00 and we had nowhere to stay. We went to the fire station to see if we could set tent, they said no, so we went to the Police station and after some begging they let us stay in a tiny concrete room with no windows or lights. We set our sleeping bags and just passed out.
Next day we head out to Quito, it's like 60miles of the most painful climbing I've ever endured. Not much to say about this or pictures to take, I was just suffering the entire time. We finally got to Quito and the traffic is like L.As but with no structure, pretty scary.
We asked around to find some hostels and we ended up in a pretty touristy area, we found hostel Nassau, showered (after 3 days) and passes out.
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| Cemetery nearby. We also ate some potatoes with spinach. Real antibonk. |
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| Finally in Quito, the traffic was insane. That fixie guy that makes movies would love it. |
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| Hostal Nassau was $22 a night between is two, neat! |
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