After more than 8 months living in Whitehorse, (the whole winter) finally came the time to say good bye to all of them that we met and walk away from all our friends we made and built strong friendship feelings along all this months.

Say good bye to our special friends Tinto, Nick, Chica y Rodney, they were very special company, because our love for the creatures of animal kingdom; friendship that born based in our love for the animals. Say bye is sad but this is our life of cyclist. Hopefully one day we will see them again and reunite all our friends that accompanied us on this adventure at Whitehorse, all the winter It have been plenty of unforgettable experiences and strong friendship.

Along of our webpage we want to thanks to all of you; and let you know that our home in Colombia is your home at any time.

We traveled to Edmonton, to visit Agustin where we made the final adjustments to our equipment, and we get ready for the trip

From this point we got again on road moving forward to Jasper, with a rainy weather, but the Mother Nature rewarded us with beautiful landscapes and beautiful sceneries

In fact the Canadian weather is too cold for some one like us a tropic lovers, that is why we enjoy every single time we got sunny day and we take it as a gift of the Mother Nature

Now we are at the huge national parks on the Canadian Rockies Jasper, Banff. Enjoying the summer and its wonderful scenery and landscape, expecting to see the wild animals from this area, like moose, rams, bears, etc

ONE ADVENTURE MORE OUT OF OUR BICYCLE SADDLES; NOW WE ARE IN WHITEHORSE YUKON TERRITORY IN CANADA, WHERE WE ARE PLANNING TO SPEND THE WHOLE WINTER, EXPERIENCING THE CULTURE THAT A WINTER GENERATES (MODUS VIVENDIS). FROM HERE WE WILL LET YOU THE NEW ADVENTURE WITH THE SNOW.
AFTER PEDALING AROUND TEN HOURS A DAY TO REACH THIS POINT IN THE WORLD BECAUSE THE SEASON( SUMMER) ALLOW US TO.( LONG DAYS WITH SUN LIGHT) THE WEATHER NOW MADE US TO STOP.NOW HAPPEN THE OPPOSITE ;SHORT LIGHT DAYS AND LONG NIGHTS.

WE HAVE SEEN THE FIRST SNOW FLURRIES AFTER A SHORT AUTUMN WHERE THE MAJOR SPECIES OF TREES HAVE BEEN CHANGE ITS COLOR FOLIAGE; FROM THE GREEN TO THE ORANGE THEN TO THE RED, TO GET FINALLY A NAKED LANDSCAPE THAT WILL BE SETTLE BY THE QUIET AND WHITE SNOW; SCENERY THAT WILL BE THE SAME FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS,LETTING GO OUT THE SPIRIT TO ALL OF US FOR THE SNOW AND WINTER SPORTS AND ITS MONOTONY.

SO FOR A WHILE OUR BIKE WILL BE HIBERNATING AS WELL AS THE BEARS; SO UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT SPRING WE WILL BE AGAIN IN OUR LITTLE STEEL HORSES (OUR BIKES),FOR NOW WE WILL ENJOY THIS UNIQUE CHANCE THAT OUR ADVENTURE IS GIVING US .

SEE YOU !!!!

Cold is Colder in the Yukon
This cold in the North of America is the coldest we ever imagine, we have felt it day after day, and it has turned into a great experience, we have learned how climate varies suddenly from a radiant sun to a strong rain, they are very great distances with many pines at each side of the highway and where the only company is the wind, the dangerous bears do not show themselves, because they are more afraid of the humans than we of them. Different motor-homes pass us in the highway constantly, reminding us that each one takes in life what they wish... our bicycle home!It will stay with us in this long route, showing a little more of the world and of LIFE, now we are in Whitehorse, the capital city of Yukon. In the highway we have seen a bear cub, which was startled when it heard a car; swans, fox, beavers, white collar eagle, squirrels that do not cease to work for wintertime!!! And the giant raven which is the one that cleans the carrion and wastes. Also gorges with very nice translucent water! It is important to see how the great majority of the inhabitants care for the water. The H2O IS NO PROBLEM!!!!! for us, what is a kind of problem is the coooooooooooooooold. Well, we are very far from our house, seeing people that pass by us very swiftly, it is difficult to see persons in the streets, you only see cars that go by rapidly, there are few houses and in most of them you can see nobody, when we reach a town there are few persons, it is not like South America, in which we saw people in the route and many people in the towns. .Maybe in South America life is in the streets and here it is the other way around? Or the weather makes the people stay much at home? Or are people hre more accustomed to loneliness? Well, we do not know what the reason is. Of what we are certain is that it is a different life style

One Push of the Pedal nearer to Colombia
Alaska! State of USA, which in summer has approximately 20 houres of light, where the vegetation grows very swiftly...all this is for us very strange, since we feel it is day until 11:00 p.m., but our biological clock lets us know that it is already time to rest!!! Pedaling from Anchorage to Fairbanks we have found a territory with many pines and beautiful animals which appear suddenly in the way, such as squirrels and rabbits of which we have seen a lot, also a large cub of black bear that suddenly showed up and disappeared, we have felt the cold which is very strong in the days it rains. But it is very pleasant when the sky is blue, the sun warms us, the dragonflies, butterflies and bees, fly around us, but for the traveling cycle the weather is never perfect ….. It is perfect, the landscapes, the smell of nature and the sounds of this are felt fully. After visiting the Denali National Park and only feeling rain for several days and not seeing more BEARS!, we went to the second most important city of Alaska, Fairbanks, arriving in three phases of which the last one was the strong mountain. Here we will rest a little with some friends and will visit the city. The places are constituted by the people and Alaska is no exception, we have found very kind people who are very respectful and excellent hosts. From here we say “From now on each pedal push we do is nearing us more to our dear nation “Colombia”

I'll let the direct translation do the writing. Angelica is writing;
Once we came out from Colombia we arrived at the CardioStart headquarters in Tampa, Florida, and there we met an Angel called Luz Estephanie, a Peruvian little girl, 5 years old, who had an accident in her country lost her right arm and is being supported by CardioStart so that in the city of Tampa she is receiving the necessary prostheses for her rehabilitation, more information in http://luzestephanie.blogspot.com/. Several days in that beautiful city and the great day arrives, we take a plane for Anchorage- Alaska, the two of us in different flights, Angelica with a stop at Phoenix – Arizona, Claudio with stop at Minneapolis-Minnesota, we met again in Anchorage, we stayed three days in friend Owen’s house. Saturday we started the adventure taking the route North to the Denali National Park and then on to the city of Fairbanks, it has been four days of hard pedaling, a new period of adaptation to the highway and luggage. A beautiful cycle route from Anchorage to Willow and then on by the highway. We have met very kind people, the weather has not been favorable, because in this season of the year there is much rain in Alaska, on the fourth day of the trip we met Ricardo Ernst, an American citizen who lives in Trapper Creek, and who some years ago lived in Colombia. He invited us to his house. He wanted us to know a typical house of the region. He prepared a delicious dinner with wine, beer and red salmon, we rested all day today, we dried the tent, washed our clothes, we write and studied a little, we visited the surroundings and will have supper of moose. Ricardo remembers Colombia very much because people there were very kind with him. Tomorrow we will start pedaling again and hope the weather improves.

Good news from Angelica and Claudio. They made it to Anchorage and met Kenny. After a few days preparation they left for Denali and their Alaska adventure. After Demali we expect them to head south to the lower 48. I will try to meet them in Missoula, Montana, at the home of Adventure Cycling. Nancy and I will be coming across the upper US from Portland, Oregon, headed for New Jersey and hope to spend a day with them. Enjoy the photos. These are all I have for now. They are having a difficult time getting internet connections. Claudio said everytime he sits down to try connecting on his portable he finds a bear looking over his shoulder. Maybe on the next post I'll tell you about their adventure with the wolf. Remember to click on the photos to enlarge them for better viewing.