Category Archives: 2014

We awoke to another sunny day, and one of the clearest, though maybe that was because it was also our earliest start so far, leaving the hotel at 6:30. We jumped on a blue bus to get to our meeting … Continue reading →

Today we took the bus to the Mitad del Mundo monument on the equator. For good measure we also visited the Inti-Nan solar museum next door, which claims that the correct equator line, measured using modern GPS, goes through their … Continue reading →

Our favourite weather-forecasting site, “yr.no”, has proved to be pretty useless in Ecuador. The weather forecast has been looking like this since way before we left home: This is what it has looked like in reality each day (view from … Continue reading →

We’ve been wondering what effect altitude would have on us, even though the organisers of this year’s Huairasinchi have promised that we will  “only” be going as high as 4400 masl. The airport outside Quito lies at a modest 2400 … Continue reading →

Our departure date is approaching fast. Jo Inge and Wendy leave home on November 1st and are busy packing. It’s obviously also a busy time at work, preparing for a three-week absence. Our training has been going well, with a … Continue reading →

The second race in the Swedish Adventure Race Series took place on the first weekend in June, this time on the coastline north-west of Gothenburg. We had been rather nervous about the paddling in WCAR … exposed sea in boats … Continue reading →