Donivan Berube

International adventure cyclist, travel writer and award-winning music maker. Explore with me 🏕️

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

Plus one year of cycling from Alaska to Argentina and writing a book en route!

Prosaic heartsongs of reflection on my lifelong search for familial belonging, set against a cascading backdrop of dirt roads and remote villages across the Americas:

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[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

Proud to finally share some of my work in this winter’s issue of The Travel Almanac, a beautiful hardcover photo book and travel writing journal issued twice annually. Visit https://t.co/ZtDQb1ubq4 for issues and subscriptions.

#Books #Reading #Writing #Magazine #Publishing

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

Bikepacking the dirt roads of north Peru where services quickly faded toward nonexistence between the smallest of empty villages:

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#Bike #Bikes #Gravel #GravelBikes #Bikepacking #Backpacking #BikeTouring #MTB #Camping #Outdoors #Nature #Peru #Bici

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension and not another, unevenly. And sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.” - Anaïs Nin

Reflections on bikepacking the Trans Ecuador Volcano Corridor:

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Traced the famed @bikepackingcom TEMBR trail atop Chimborazo, Ecuador’s tallest volcano and new highest pass of my cycling career:

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#Bike #Bikes #Cycling #Cyclist #Bikepacking #Backpacking #Bici #Bicicleta #Velo #Ecuador #MTB #Hiking #Camping #Nature

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

Picking up the famed @bikepackingcom Trans Ecuador Mountain Bike Route atop Cotopaxi:

https://t.co/wQyZ3E8lLO

#Bike #Bikes #Bici #Bicicleta #Velo #Bikepacking #Backpacking #Cotopaxi #Ecuador #GravelBike #BikeTouring #Outdoors #Outside #Nature #Camping

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

“This town is filled with echoes,” Juan Rulfo wrote in ‘Pedro Páramo.’ Bikepacking the length of Colombia from Cartagena to the Ecuadorian border:

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#Cycling #Bike #Bikes #Bici #Bicicleta #Velo #Bikepacking #Backpacking #Outdoors #Explore #SouthAmerica

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Bikepacked the “Trampoline of Death,” somehow my safest option amongst FARC militias and guerrilla strongholds across southern Colombia:

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#Bike #Bikes #Bikepacking #Backpacking #Bici #Bicicleta #Camp #Camping #Outdoors #Nature #Explore #Colombia #Velo

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

Climbed +13,500ft to the Colombian Páramos with rare frailejones forests only found in specific parts of the Equatorial Andes:

https://t.co/JU620VyUEM

#Bike #Bikes #Bikepacking #Backpacking #Camping #Cycling #Bicicleta #Velo #MTB #Outdoors #Nature #Explore #Colombia

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

Loosely followed 250+ miles of the “Oh! Boyaca” route via @bikepackingcom across the Colombian Andes and El Cocuy #NationalPark:

https://t.co/B8VJd0Qa1F

#Bike #Bicicleta #Velo #Bikepacking #Backpacking #Cycling #Outdoors #Nature #Adventure #Explore #Colombia

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

With no roads to bike between Panama & South America, I found a small boat around the Darién Gap into Cartagena, Colombia:

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#Bike #Bikes #Bikepacking #Backpacking #Outdoors #Nature #Explore #Adventure #Bici #Bicicleta #Velo #Travel

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

Spent a few weeks loosely following @bikepackingcom’s Nicoya Traverse across Costa Rica, connecting muddy backroads to golden beach towns in the height of rainy season:

#Bike #Bikes #Bikepacking #Cycling #Outdoors #Nature #Explore #CostaRica

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

Found a speedboat between El Salvador’s southernmost corner and a remote immigration outpost in Nicaragua. #Bikepacking the border:

#Bike #Bikes #BikeTouring #Cycling #Cyclist #Outdoors #Bici #Velo #Adventure #Explore

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

Back at the dream in Central America, #bikepacking from Alaska to Argentina and over halfway there!

#Bike #Bikes #Cycling #BikeTouring #Adventure #Explore #Outdoors #Bicicleta #Velo

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

More shots of my rugged @PolygonBikes V9X #bikepacking buildout for the ride from Alaska to Argentina. More than halfway there now and bracing for the Andes!

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

Explored 200 miles of Arizona’s borderlands via @bikepackingcom’s Sky Islands Odyssey route with grazing pronghorn from afar, the comic burble of Masked Bobwhite Quail, hummingbird sanctuaries and entire hillsides of flowering ocotillo like extraterrestrial candelabra.

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

Gave the new @PolygonBikes V9X buildout a proper bikepacking test ride over the San Francisco Peaks of northern Arizona, featuring Flagstaff’s “fourth winter” of hail, snow, and the route becoming a literal ski slope over 9k ft:

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

I’ve been building out this incredible @PolygonBikes Bend V9X gravel bike for the second half of my journey from Alaska to Argentina. Salud to our lucky mud and the spirit of adventure!

#Bikepacking #AdventureCycling #PolygonBikes #RidePolygon #OnPolygonBikes #GravelBike #Bikes

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

From Rainbow Road to West Coast Wilderness, where the sky changes its mind every hour until all four seasons collide into one frostbitten sunset.

#NewZealand #Cycling #Bikepacking #Bike #Biking #Explore #Outdoors #Camping #BikeTouring #Adventure #Outside #Travel #Backpacking

[Donivan Berube @donivanberube]

Bikepacking my way south from Vallarta along grueling hairpins and switchbacks linking vacant towns to playas tortugerias, vast protected coastlines where overseers sheltered baby turtles in bucketloads and helped them out toward the water by cover of darkness.