I’ll admit this right off the bat. You cannot visit Machu Picchu with a dog. You can get close, but you can’t actually take your dog inside the sacred site. We had hemmed and hawed about whether or not to visit Machu Picchu, knowing it would be difficult, but everyone told us we had to[...]
Our friend Flavia, whom we met early on in our travels at a Casa de Ciclistas in Patagonia, wanted to enlist our help in adopting a puppy with whom she had fallen in love a month prior in the small mountain village of Hanchipata. Suggesting a bike ‘n hike trip to dog-friendly[...]
Before heading to Bolivia, we put together fake documents to please the border patrol who would be issuing our visas. They like to see a place of residence, departure flight, and several other bits of information. As cycle tourists, we never know where we’ll be when, so we just found a[...]
Due to our own indirection and mistakes, we had a bit of a difficult time finding dog-friendly B3 Backpacker Hostel in Iquique, Chile. Fortunately, we found ourselves in the delightfully warm-weather-pocket of northern Chile that reminded us of San Diego, so getting lost wasn’t all[...]
Our original plan was to spend a month on the Chilean coast, two hours north of Santiago and care for four dogs, before heading onto San Pedro de Atacama, and then the Laguna Route in Bolivia. A fellow cyclist whom we had met on the road, however, had an accident on his bike resulting in[...]
