Dear Curtis
How nice you are to judge me without even knowing me. Kev and I have travelled in Latin America since 1996, done over 100,000 miles there on one or two bikes since then. Yep, one 17,000 mile trip was an endurance ride and it got a world record. Why? Because we like to ride. The rest was travelling, pure and simple. Sometimes on a bike. Sometimes with a back pack. If I got a quid for everyone who played that predictable line of why do an endurance ride it, I'd be very rich. Same reason why runners from all over the world go to New York and do a marathon, but never see beyond the route. All bozos, I guess.
We are all out there, all on bikes, all riding the world. Let's encourage each other and share the dream, eh?
And the the answer to the original question, having just ridden Alaska to Ushuaia, Aug - Dec 05 with 12 other bikers, once you've conquered the Dalton Highway, you can stick to tarmac the whole way, apart from minimal good dirt of TdF. It'll all be black stuff in a year or two.
Cheers, Julia
[This message has been edited by GlobeBusters (edited 26 February 2006).]
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