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An Amsterdam-based journalist blogging about life in the Netherlands. During the pandemic, she traveled to Mexico. Now she shares a fresh itinerary for a very interesting trip to Mexico.

For March 2020, friends have planned a commercial hike along the Lycian Trail in Turkey. The western part of the route was familiar to me, and this time I wanted to go east. The pandemic that was raging “out there” did not seem to be the reason that could disrupt my plans.

Pandemic Travel: Cycling from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Along one of the most scenic routes on the Pacific coast.

"When it gets boring, the brain looks for something to catch on, and the first thing it finds is your body."

Let's start the article with a bike check - a description of a bike that I traveled in Latin America. And then I will tell you how the idea of this bike tour came about, why the bike is cooler than public transport and how the first days of the trip went.