Torrential rain, backyard barbeques and dance parties
To those enduring a bitter-cold winter, South America might sound like a tropical oasis, an escape from the snow. At least it did to me. And a week riding through Patagonia during the Trans-Andes Challenge seemed like an ideal pre-season training camp. But this year, that temperate weather turned sour, and most days we rode through relentless rainstorms—over seven days in Chile, the regions received more precipitation than notoriously wet Seattle and the Netherlands during that time. Mother Nature was clearly laughing her ass off … More