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.