The 1000 Cups of Tea Cycle Tour
The 1000 Cups of Tea Cycle Tour
Ruth López Tecles & Robert Harries
We are Rob & Ruth, a cranky couple of high rollers taking on the journey of our lives, a cycle tour. This is an podcast of our travels across North America, following the adventure we take on a couple of old push bikes as we try and drink our way through 1000 cups of tea and many more miles of dirt track, gravel and road. Ruth will be jibbering away in Spanish and Rob will be jabbering away in English, but fear not as we'll do our best to hold your hand over this language barrier and take you along for the ride. You can find more ways to follow the trip at 1000-cupsoftea.com. So buckle up and enjoy the road as much as we do!
A Holiday from our Holiday (RVing around Puebla & Oaxaca)
Mezcals by the dozen, Thanksgiving cauliflowers and old friends. Leaving the bicycles to hitch an RV ride from Cholula in the state of Puebla to Oaxaca city.
Nov 30, 2020
32 min
Tearing Up the Blueprint (Bike Touring in Hidalgo & Puebla)
Mexican Cornish pasties, Mayan non-calendars, smelly bodies and Pueblan choirs. We take our push bikes through the mountains of Hidalgo and end up in bustling Puebla.
Nov 23, 2020
37 min
Mexican Cyclists and Fire Fighters, Our Heroes! (Cycling Querétaro)
Boiling water, the Chichimeca, saving cheese and selling ones soul to a saint. All while cycling from Guanajuato city to just over the state border of Hidalgo.
Nov 16, 2020
39 min
Warm Welcomes and Zombies (Pedalling Michoacán & Guanajuato)
Poems from politicians, the golden age of Mexican rock and roll, Purépechan classical music, election night and unpronounceable names. The bike tour continues as we pedal our bicycles from Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán to the tunnels of Guanajuato.
Nov 9, 2020
35 min
Colourful Decisions (Cycle Touring Michoacán)
Sandal churros, colourful humming birds, mezcal and the coming of the dead. We load up the panniers to go between the towns of Vista Hermosa and Tzintzuntzan.
Nov 2, 2020
28 min
End of an Era (Jalisco)
Chundering, drowned sandwiches, poor Galicians, missing gear and the return of the dead
Oct 26, 2020
33 min
Lagoons, Craters and Tequila, Lots of Tequila (Jalisco)
Music, good piss ups, tequila and mariachis
Oct 19, 2020
31 min
Tasty Touring (Nayarit)
Cheese, tripe, drug trafficking and stuffed chillies
Oct 12, 2020
30 min
Bread, Pancakes and Vampires (Sinaloa)
Sad times on the docks, town square food, growing tomatoes and plenty of narcos
Oct 5, 2020
49 min
Mexican Happiness (South Baja California Sur)
Tortillas, turtles, town drunks, independence and no regrets
Sep 28, 2020
50 min