Colombian coffee is grown in mountainous and challenging terrain. Colombia is number two in coffee production in the world, and the world’s top producer of higher quality Arabica beans. In order for the Colombian coffee to be produced, the workers need to get to the fields. Their transport comes in the form of The Willy’s. [...]
Archive | May, 2012
Colombian Coffee Zone Cycling Tour: Day 5
The Colombian Coffee Zone Cycling Tour entered its fifth day of riding with a quick trip to the local bike shop to insure that Wilma’s rack would stay in place for the rest of our journeys. You see, her rack had a stripped thread on the one side, and we needed to have a more secure [...]
Cocora Valley: Extreme Horseback Edition
The Cocora Valley, or Valle de Cocora was where we decided to take a day off of the bikes. As an ironic twist, we were still in saddles on this given day – horse saddles. Three cyclists pretending to be cowboys. The Cocora Valley is home to Colombia’s national tree, the wax palm. These trees [...]
Colombian Coffee Zone Cycling Tour: Day 4
The Colombian Coffee Zone Cycling Tour has entered its fourth day, and I’m proud to say we’re all alive. We’ve ridden hard for four days through some of the most beautiful and challenging terrain the world has to offer. Today’s ride was planned to be a short, easy, and painless ride. Sometimes plans change. Sometimes weather [...]
Colombian Coffee Zone Cycling Tour: Day 3
Our Colombian Coffee Zone Cycling Tour took us from Riosucio to Pereira, Colombia on day three of our tour. It was by far the longest journey of our trip so far, at 115kms. The day was a near perfect day of cycling, with amazing views, some good climbing, a world-class decent, great food, close friends, [...]
Colombian Coffee Zone Cycling Tour: Day 2
The Colombian Coffee Zone Cycling Tour just finished Day 2. It took us three crazy Canadians from La Pintada, a little resort town 75kms south of Medellin to Riosucio, an amazingly beautiful pueblo up in the mountainous coffee region. We saw this beautiful dance in a pueblo called “Guamal” One of the amazing things [...]
CouchSurfing in Colombia
I have been a member of the CouchSurfing community now for over three years. For those of you who are not familiar with this movement (it’s so much more than a website,) it started out as a site for travellers to help other travellers by offering a spare room or couch to those who may [...]
Colombian Coffee Zone Cycling Tour: Day 1
The Colombian Coffee Zone Cycling Tour started today. My first visitors from Canada arrived the previous night to join me on a cycling journey through Colombia’s coffee zone, or zona cafetera. I have heard nothing but great things about this part of the country, and have been anxious to check it out for myself. Let [...]
Day Trading in Brazil: Things Don’t Always Go As Planned.
Believe it or not, I don’t facilitate all of my traveling through professional travel writing. This may seem hard to believe, and you may be asking “but Brice, if you can’t make a living travel writing, who can?” That’s a fair question, and I’d like to ask the gods that be the same question. However, [...]
EAFIT University in Medellin
The EAFIT University in Medellin is a private university in Medellin’s El Poblado district. It has great Spanish as a second language courses there for foreigners, as well as a variety of high quality options for studies in Spanish. My good friend and professor at EAFIT University, Daniel, invited me to come visit the campus. I’d [...]
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