A neighbor of mine is a member of Warmshowers, an international organization that connects long-distance cyclists with hosts who offer a free place to rest and clean up. The other day, he invited me to meet two young men from Cork, Ireland, who were biking from Vancouver, Canada, to Ushuaia, Argentina—a journey of 12,641 kilometers.
The cyclists, Jack Kenny and Oisín (pronounced “Ushin”) Dennehy, had arrived in Guadalajara after 51 days of hard pedaling, sometimes covering as much as 165 kilometers in a single day.
I asked Oisín how Mexico was treating them.
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