From Anchorage to Ushuaia by Bike

For the past week we have been enjoying a respite from the heat in the shade of the majestic redwoods. Redwoods are related to Sequoias, and these gigantic trees can grow up to 100 m high and can live for more than 2000 years. The trees can reach 6 m in diameter around the base! We felt like ants next to these ancient flora.

Since Crescent City we’ve been riding with Nathan and Ben, the two brothers that we ran into a few times before. It’s been a real pleasure to share our day to day lives with them: we laugh a lot, and encourage each other, and helpfully we have just about the same pace of travel! They actually were “attacked” by wild animals two nights in a row: first by a skunk and then by a raccoon that sniffed around inside their bags!

We’re discovering the “real” California now, the California that is warm and sunny. The landscape is dry, inland and along the coasts.

We’re now about 3 days away from San Francisco, and we hope that next week we will be able to meet with some of the key players in the world of microfinance.

Sara & Sébastien