An ideal day is different for everyone, but with minor variations, your day could look like this: After enjoying an early breakfast, pick up your sun block and head over to Cycle Bonaire where Andre Nahr and his staff of rough and ready riders are packing up the truck to take you to the starting point for your ride. Bottles of ice water are handed out along with detailed trail descriptions and before you can say "patch kit," you're off. Where you go next depends on the skill level you're up for that day. At the drop off point, your guide delivers a simple orientation, telling you to watch out for sunburn and cactus, and describing wildlife, rough terrain, and points of interest.

Almost all the trails run along the coastline at some point and some of them lie only inches from it (after all, this is an island). Maybe you'll pass by the old slave huts on the south end of the island, or maybe you'll peddle out to the old fishing village at Playa Frans. One trail takes you on a historical tour of the northern village of Rincon, its old church, Devil's Hill, kunukus (farms), a seemingly out-of-place duck pond, the first freeman's settlement following the abolition of slavery, and "the warehouse of the king." Another route puts riders hot on the trail of the elusive flamingos, and another winds up and down some of the most rugged loose rock and dirt hills imaginable. Maybe you'll see the old aloe plantation today or maybe you'll peddle out to the ancient undeciphered Indian inscriptions or the lighthouse or the lagoon. Different routes, different distances, different thrills every day for as long as you care to stay.
Shorter runs will have you back to town before noon. Stop by the market for fresh fruit and fish or have a nice lunch at your hotel and then take a siesta (everyone else does from 12 noon to 2 p.m.). Upon waking, go for a swim or gear up for a dive. Some trails include lunch and plans for an afternoon of diving the wreck of the Hilma Hooker, snorkeling at Pink Beach, or kayaking the lagoon. Either way, at day's end, you'll have plenty of fish tales to swap over dinner.