Of their first guide, The Highway That Has No Finish, Tim and Cindie Travis left their regular lives in Prescott, Arizona and took off to journey all over the world on their bicycles. Their second guide, Down The Highway In South America: A Bicycle Tour by way of Poverty, Paradise, and the Locations in Between, is the story of their travels by way of the South American international locations of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile.
In contrast to their first guide, nevertheless, which is basically about their wrestle to adapt to their new nomadic life-style, Down The Highway In South America, is a narrative extra about what it was like for this touring couple to really LIVE on the highway for an prolonged time period.
What I discovered most fascinating in regards to the couple’s first guide is how they saved up, labored onerous, and deliberate out their epic dive into nomadic dwelling, as it is a life-style alternative few folks will possible ever make.
As a result of they’d already been on the highway for months by the point they even began writing in regards to the happenings inside Down The Highway In South America, the guide lacks any of that “hit the highway and ditch our regular lives” enchantment. As a substitute, it’s an extraordinary journey guide about two cyclists roaming about in quite a few South American international locations.
For me, the guide as a complete was good, however there was nothing spectacular about it. Tim falls and injures his knee. The couple will get robbed. And each cyclists endure with diarrhea and fatigue.
The factor about touring is that, usually occasions, the entire thrilling and memorable moments occur originally. After some time, even essentially the most seemingly epic tales, locations and other people are inclined to grow to be extraordinary and routine.
And that, I worry, is what occurred with Tim and Cindie’s second guide. One of the best a part of their story (breaking away from their lives in Arizona) was recorded in The Highway That Has No Finish and this a part of their advnture makes for an exciting learn. However as soon as they’re on the highway, the Travis’ story is not any completely different than anybody else touring by way of South America (even if they’re on bicycles as a substitute of getting about by airplane, bus or vehicle).
General, Down The Highway In South America is a good document of the Travis’ adventures and it would make for a academic learn for somebody wishing to following the same route by way of South America. However when you’re in search of a guide that leaves you with a memorable lasting impression of South America, it’s folks, and the locations that make the continent so spectacular, then this most likely isn’t it.
My General Score: 6 Out of 10
Extra info on Tim and Cindie Travis and their bicycle touring adventures will be discovered at www.downtheroad.org
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