Everything you need to know about bicycle travel—from choosing your route and planning your trip to selecting gear, packing your bike, and navigating the challenges along the way.

In this article, I’ll explore the taboo topic of quitting through these questions and share some lessons and strategies I have learned from my experience of both quitting and completing big challenges.

Having completed three laps around the Baja Cape, I wanted to create a dedicated resource for those tackling the Baja Cape Loop. Alongside my 2024 Baja Divide Route Guide Update, I’ve assembled the following resources for the Baja Cape Loop, starting and ending at San José del Cabo Airport:

Using Pat Boyle's updated 2023 GPX file, I updated this multifaceted Ride with GPS resource for 2024. This includes Nicholas Carman's original waypoints augmented by my favorite POIs compiled from my experience riding the complete Baja Divide one and a half times, the Cape Loop three times, and revisiting multiple sections over my seven trips to Baja California over the past nine years.

While it's easy to romanticize bikepacking with your partner, it's essential to understand and prepare for the challenges you will likely face so that you can overcome, experience joy, and integrate bikepacking into your lives together for the long term. 

The setting was the Bolivian salt flats outside of Uyuni. The time was November 2019; Adam and I were one-and-a-half years into our relationship. It was the end of a month-long bikepacking trip that had started with getting stuck in La Paz during a coup d’état of Bolivia's then-socialist president, Evo Morales, and some of the most intense and frightening days we had ever experienced.

A practical introduction to bikepacking, covering the basics of gear, planning, and what to expect when heading out on your first multi-day ride.

A complete bikepacking pack list covering gear, tools, and essentials to help you prepare for multi-day rides in a range of conditions.

A breakdown of how I planned resupply points and key locations along the Tour Divide using Ride with GPS and detailed route mapping.

How to track my progress on the Tour Divide in real time, along with links and tools to follow the route and updates.

A detailed look at the gear I used for the Tour Divide, including packing strategy and what worked (and didn’t) over a long-distance ride.

A video walkthrough of my Tour Divide gear setup, breaking down the essentials for long-distance bikepacking.

A look at the physical, logistical, and mental preparation that goes into getting ready for the Tour Divide.

A video covering my motivations for riding the Tour Divide, along with expectations and common questions about the experience.

A guide to route planning and navigation tools to help build confidence and independence on the bike.

A practical bikepacking pack list covering the core systems you need for a multi-day ride - food and water, shelter and sleep, clothing, tools, first aid, and the small extras that make life on the bike more comfortable.

A multi-day ride from the city of Oaxaca to Mexico’s Pacific coast, traveling through mezcal country, Indigenous mountain villages, and the Sierra Madre del Sur before descending to the beach at Zipolite. This route guide captures both the practical shape of the ride and the richness of the places along the way.

An introduction to what it really means to pursue adventure by bike - not as a polished ideal, but as something built through curiosity, discomfort, adaptation, and a willingness to keep learning. This piece offers a grounded look at the mindset behind adventure cycling.

A beginner-friendly interview covering the basics of bikepacking, from planning a route and choosing gear to what makes a trip memorable once you are out there. It is a simple starting point for anyone curious about multi-day bicycle travel.