von Helmut Johann Pucher | Sep 4, 2017 | Allgemein
As we all know the lure of the Alaskan wilderness has been around for a while. What got me started was way back watching an adolescent Ethan Hawk being chased by a grizzly in jaw-dropping WHITEFANG roughly 27 times. But than picking up a dozen years later my very...
von Helmut Johann Pucher | Aug 16, 2017 | Allgemein
Dear Pan American Highway, I vaguely remember doing my first bike ride. What I do remember is the build up to that very day. I was anxious over the outcome to quite an extent. As if being stuck in a remake of „Groundhog Day“ my mind kept looping a dream of...
von Helmut Johann Pucher | Jul 28, 2017 | Allgemein
They say you have to take the bull by the horns. Along with half a dozen Mesquitos, a couple of chickens and my trusted cyclocross I am squeezed into a pipante, the one and only mean of transport to navigate the backwaters of the Mosquitia. Set to finally...
von Helmut Johann Pucher | Jun 26, 2017 | Allgemein
In a time of copy and paste it is so important to create something new and nurture our own individual strength rather than look to others and try to imitate them. Because in the end what we tell is who we are. And that was exactly what I thought to myself on my fourth...
von Helmut Johann Pucher | Mai 5, 2017 | Allgemein
Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, San Salvador- todo lo mismo chorizo someone insisted while being out on a lengthy ride. Which translates to same sausage. After riding for months across Central America and pretty much chewing my way to the top, I...
von Helmut Johann Pucher | Feb 16, 2017 | Allgemein
After crossing over from Colombia, a sigh of relief came off my lips: „It’s done!“. Almost like a mantra I had kept repeating the word C-a-r-t-a-g-e-n-a to motivate myself. Sometimes simultaneously gritting my teeth or even calling the word out...
