This is a short note to let you know Ride For The Trees has a new Wordpress blog!! Check it out at RideForTheTrees.Wordpress.com and comment on it to let us know what you think!...

Comments

Hey everybody! Sorry I've gotten so far behind on the journal updates and photos. I had some difficulties updating in Peru. But alas, I have made it to Ecuador!!! Here in Cuenca I am planning on taking a few months off to work, update the website, ...

Comments

Rohayhu Paraguay!!! This means "we love Paraguay" in the indigenous language of Guaraní and is pronounced Ro-hi-hu. Sadly, this will be the last blog entry of the Biking to Build Schools bicycle tour. But happily, we want to share with you in ...

Comments

Oui Oui, Hohn hohn a la Paris

Comments

Greetings from Encarnación, Paraguay!! After riding some 6,950 kilometers from the tip of South America we have finally made it back to good old Paraguay!!! It is hard to believe that we are already here. It seemed like it would take forever ...

Comments

Journeying through Florence, Munich, Dachau and Austria.

Comments

When the moon hits your eye...

Comments

in which Richard and Beth-Anne travel from Singapore to Germany.,

Comments

Well, here I am back at home in Melbourne, Australia.  I almost completely forgot to write this post which is why it's been so long since the time I got back and the time I'm posting this entry.  I'm sure you'll survive though.  :) &n...

Comments

Well, here I am sitting, once again, in the Re-LAX lounge at LAX in Los Angeles.  This time I've got 2 hours to kill and what better way than to do some online rambling.  You know what's coming next ... today's MTB term!   Punter - a...

Comments

It sucks to have to say that this trip is now pretty much over.  :(  However, I can't let that get me down so here's today's MTB slang term - you're all getting pretty good at this by now.   Owned - A term used when someone crashes ...

Comments

More than just shopping and eating this time, including a trip to the zoo and a ride on the Singapore Flyer.

Comments

Let the shopping and eating begin.

Comments

HOLA! Greetings from Buenos Aires (good airs), Argentina! The last section of riding was our toughest yet, but before getting into that, we would like to inform you about the progress of the Biking to Build Schools project, fundraising, and the bike ...

Comments

Education time!  Today's MTB slang term is ...   Pinned/to have it pinned - A term borrowed from motocross, meaning to have the throttle pinned, or held all the way open.  Used in mountain biking to descibe people riding really hard,...

Comments

So, are y'all learning heaps about MTB terms?  Ok, that's good.  Here's today's one then.   Case/casing/to case - To attempt a jump but land short of the downramp.  On double jumps if you land one wheel either side of the lip of...

Comments

A quick sum up of the plan. Can't wait!!

Comments

  After yesterday's comment about not taking a day off today I ended up doing exactly that.  It wasn't planned though - I just forgot to set my alarm in time to get up and have a full day riding ... oops.  Today's MTB term ...  ...

Comments

Ok, let's get started.  Firstly, here is today's MTB slang term - all in the name of educating those who know nothing about mountain biking.   Cookie Cutter - This is what happens if you crash and don't have plugs on your handlebars. ...

Comments

Ahhh yes, it's that time again.  Time for another completely random article title that won't make any sense until I explain it.  I'll get to that though.   Also, starting today, I'm going to put a random MTB slang term at the start o...

Comments

Ok, don't get me wrong but the more time I spend in Canada the more I'm noticing the little differences between here and a lot of other English-speaking places I've been.   New Zealand is awesome (naturally I'd think that).  Australia, pa...

Comments

Photos coming soon. For now, enjoy this crazy story. Day 1Said goodbye to my German buddies Sepp and Martin, who had to return to Alemania.Climbed a good climb over a ridge to exit Cuzco, then a good downhill on the other side. Fantastic paved road,...

Comments

Today I decided to get up early and head to trails before they got busy.  This turned out to be a very good idea as hundreds of riders turned up on an exceptionally hot and sunny day.  You'd think that going downhill isn't tiring or hard wo...

Comments

This is going to be a post with pretty much only 2 purposes - to share a couple photos and a video that I shot with the Whistler Action Cams helmet camera.  This thing is seriously cool and it's great getting the reactions of other riders when t...

Comments

So, what is up with that blog title anyway?  Let me explain.  :)   The first part is the name of a trail here, the second part is the sound I reckon a bear makes (coz I saw one today), the third part is the noise people make when the...

Comments

I figured this was worth writing about because of the sheer beauty of the area I had to travel through on the shuttle ride from Vancouver to Whistler.   From the moment we left Vancouver International Airport it was impossible to deny that Can...

Comments

Another uneventful flight from LA to Vancouver - I'm finally in Canada!  Other than Tim Hortons and some waiting around there wasn't much to do in Van.   The next part of the trip is the 3 hour shuttle up to Whistler, the end of the my tr...

Comments

Haha man I'm clever with my blog titles.  :)   Ok so now that I've got that out of the way I thought I'd fire together a quick update for those who may be following this particular foray into the great semi unknown.  Had to get up at...

Comments

It was only 9 days ago that I finally decided to bite the bullet and basically "just go" ... to Whistler (BC, Canada) for some mountain biking that I've always wanted to do.   When I bought the tickets my flatmate Adam, in his Canadian accent,...

Comments

Journal entries coming soon. For now, enjoy these photos!...

Comments

Friday May 8, 2009 La Paz to Patamanta: 40 kilometers   Returning from the hot, humid Amazon lowlands up to a cold, dry Altiplano winter. This after 6 weeks of gorging a stretched belly, but excercizing like a sloth. How would my legs hold ...

Comments

Many saludos from Mendoza, Argentina, the land of wine and good ice cream! Congrats to Chris Haynes who guessed correctly on the previous mysterious picture of viney plants... They were kiwis! We were confused at first as to what fruit looked s...

Comments

journal entries coming soon. for now, enjoy these photos!...

Comments

For the first post about living here in Melbourne I'm going to babble on about where I'm living for a bit.  Hope y'all don't mind.  :)   Over the last few days I've been busy packing my stuff in Brisbane and preparing for the move to...

Comments

Buenos días from the steep and colorfull hillisides of Valparaíso! We have been in this coastal city for the past 5 days taking a proper rest from the road...and celebrating Joel's birthday which was on the 23rd! We have a new contender for the my...

Comments

The last couple of weeks have been a complete blur of moving between friend's houses (thanks so much guys!), an extra unexpected week of work (including saturday and sunday over easter weekend!), goodbye drinks and of course the most pleasurable acti...

Comments

journal entries coming soon...

Comments

Hello again! We are writing from of Concepción, a busy and populous city on the Pacific Coast of Chile. We are well and happy to say that InterConnection, our American partner organization, has shipped 12 reused and refurbished computers to P...

Comments

Hola everyone and saludos from Bariloche, Argentina, the busy mountain resort town! Ok, so we are finally back on pavement and have completed the Carretera Austral road in Chile. Thank goodness because between the two of us, we had 12 flat tire...

Comments

Melbourne is truely a city of secret alley ways, cafés and bars. It's been a while since either Chris or I have been here so our collective memory about the place was a little patchy. However, after only a day and a bit here, it's totally living up to all the tallk.

Comments

Saludos from La Junta, Chile! (The map says that we are in Futaleufú, Chile but we haven't arrived there yet...we just had to enter it because TravelStash wouldn't recognize our current location of La Junta, Chile. We'll be in Futaleufú...

Comments

March 1, 2009: The border between La Quiaca, Argentina and Villazon, Bolivia is a mess of people shuffling about like drunken ducks carrying drunken duck packages. I didn't see many people stamping in or out. It looked like a free for all. So, ...

Comments

Altiplano loosely translates to High Plain. This place IS high, ranging from about 3,400 meters (11,100 ft.) to 4,200 meters (13,400 ft.) above sea level. It is mostly flat, as that range is only an 800 meter elevation range, but everything is m...

Comments

Hello again!! Its been a long time since we've had the opportunity to update our blog and a lot has happened between El Chaltén, Argentina and Coyhaique, Chile. We are doing well and we hope that all of you are too! Thanks again to all for you...

Comments

Tokyo! I stayed here for 2 weeks of my 3 week Japanese adventure, the last week I spent travelling around other parts of Japan on the 7-day Japan rail pass (mainly Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and Hiroshima) by myself. In Tokyo however I was with old flatmate...

Comments

Salta is a popular tourist destination, and for good reason. There is a gondola that takes you to the top of a hill for great views of Salta and the surrounding Andes. There is a strip of bars and restaurants with live Andean folk music. There are ho...

Comments

Hello from El Chaltén, Argentina!! Just a little reminder for new readers of this blog... Our names are Karen Schlatter and Joel Correia and we are in the midst of a six month, six thousand mile long bicycle tour to raise funds that will be u...

Comments

I can't describe how fortunate I feel to have done the Chaco portion of this tour. People from all over the world fly to Argentina, book bus tours or rent cars to tour the famous Gran Chaco… and now I am probably one of the few people in the w...

Comments

To be honest, I didn't realize how involved with my cause I would become when I was planning this ride. I thought I might travel, do some interviews, raise some money for charity, maybe even have a big impact in Paraguay. But I didn't expect to becom...

Comments

Hello all! Greetings from El Calafate, Argentina!! First, a few important notices... 1) Thanks to your support and those who have donated to our cause, our American partner organization, InterConnection, is preparing to send a pallet of comput...

Comments