“Cut-and-run”, we learn, means to “Hurry Off”. It’s a shipping term. In the old days, a captain may decide to leave quickly to avoid danger or peril. And he cuts free the anchor! Today, ship management may decide to cut-and-run without off-loading or up-loading its cargo. This is to avoid further delays or a congested port. Our ship, the MSC Chloe, cuts-and-runs, from Montevideo, with our bikes!!! Off to Rio de Janeiro.   Here our bikes wait to be loaded on a [...]

Once, we lie side by side. Like twins in Earth’s womb, Africa and South America! Snug, a mere 250 million years ago. And then, the massive slabs of rock we sit on tear us apart. Torturously slow! Molten rocks rise. Rifts screech and ease into valleys. Mountains surge. Seafloors spread. And continents drift apart. It’s terrifying, but unseen. All of it, at a snail’s pace. And now, a whole Atlantic Ocean separates us, from South America. And our early bonds – DNA and [...]