Nepal is a country I have wanted to visit for as long as I can remember. Maybe it’s the draw of the mountains themselves, or the country’s deep spiritual connection to them, or the mystery surrounding mans need to try and ‘conquer’ them, I don’t know. But for whatever reason, it was important to me Read more

Almost immediately, Laos felt different to Vietnam. We were only a few meters away from that arbitrary line in the road that defined the border and already; goats roamed the streets, a huge gold painted Buddhist statue towered over everything, mounds of bananas defied gravity piled high on mopeds, all the houses were wooden huts Read more

The day had already been a long one. I was tired – A reflection of the continual riding, only six weeks earlier we had started our journey up the USA and now we were less than a week away from the Canadian border. I could tell Ted was flagging too by the gentle, understanding glances Read more

The morning air is fresh now, it has a coolness to it that feels so unfamiliar. I grab my fleece from it’s crumpled home at the bottom of my dry-sack, pulling it over my head. The golden light of dawn draws me outside and I pushed open the creaky cabin door, coffee in hand, careful Read more

As we crossed the border from Arizona into Utah, the second state of our journey across the USA, the approach of the 4th July was becoming evident. American flags adorned houses, shops and street lights in preparation for American Independence Day. Ted turned to me one morning whilst riding through a sleepy flag-covered village and Read more

One of my favourite things about travelling by bike is all the places in-between that it takes you. You set out aiming for a particular town or village, and more often than not, the places you trundle through in order to get there end up being more interesting than the place you’re aiming for. The Read more

Our time in Peru started with a birthday. Ted turned 37 the day we crossed the border at Concordia, right on the coast – not that we could see the sea from there. The landscape was desolate. An ugly, grey, dry, hot desert, with piles of rubbish strewn all along the highway and beyond. The Read more

“If we read borders as narrative lines, sometimes they tell different stories than their authors intended. Sometimes the original plot runs wild.” I love this quote. It’s taken from an essay written by Kate Harris, who also wrote one of my favourite books of all time ‘Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Read more

It feels like a little while since I last put pen to paper – or more accurately tippie-typed away on my phone. We’ve seen and done a lot over the last few weeks, in three different countries – so that’s three different types of currency, three different phone SIM cards and three different accents of Read more

There is a route across the Puna Region of Northern Argentina that is legendary amoung bikepackers around the world, even mention of its name brings the fluttery feeling of fear and excitement to your stomach – The Ruta de Los Seis Miles Sur. This is our Ruta de Los Seis Miles story, so grab a Read more

Before we set off on our travels in September, we were so busy packing up our lives at home that I didn’t really dare let myself imagine what life on the road would really be like. Taking my attention away from the business of organising, packing and sorting, to conjure up romantic notions of what Read more

We are five months into our trip. We still find ourselves saying ‘Can you believe we are doing this?’ Sometimes it still doesn’t quite feel real. The vastness of the scenery, the change in cultures, the different people we meet, living on the bikes, waking somewhere new (almost) everyday make everything feel so disparate from Read more

Re-entering Argentina after about a month in Chile was a joy. We both just really enjoyed being somewhere different. The culture is very laid back, the people are super friendly and the horse is a legitimate mode of transport to the local shops – What’s not to love?! There’s something about Argentina that I don’t Read more

All those months ago, when we were starting to scope out this trip and put together ideas of what it might look like, starting off by following the sun south through Europe seemed like a sensible idea. Ted and I don’t often do sensible, but on this occasion I’m really glad we did. We’ve now Read more

As everyone who bikepacks knows, the only plan in bikepacking is that the plan goes out the window the moment you set off – It’s part of the joy of it all. So our plan to have a few days of plain sailing after crossing the border into Spain didn’t quite go as we had Read more

After three and a half weeks we say ‘merci, au revoir!’ to France. Despite France being a country that was pretty familiar to both of us before this trip, we’ve both enjoyed new experiences and learnt a lot about life here by travelling through it on our bikes and staying with locals. We’ve found comfort Read more

Since our last post, it feels a bit like we’ve been playing a real life, good old fashioned, game of Snakes and Ladders, with tears and tantrums included! Albeit in our game, it’s all been upside down – the snakes down have been the great flowing fun single-track, and the ladders up have been the Read more

During the week that the UK has been shocked and saddened by the horrific destruction of the infamous Robin Hood Tree on Hadrian’s Wall, we feel incredibly privileged to have spent the best part of our week living among the trees and woodland of Germany and France. Heading South from Koln we were soon into Read more

So we are one week into our trip, and being honest it just feels like a lovely holiday at the moment. But that being said, we have experienced a number of firsts, which we know with hindsight will be a momentous occasions or the first of many along this journey. None of the firsts have Read more

After a week of heartfelt goodbyes we are finally on our way. There’s so much we want to say but kinda just don’t quite know how to articulate that slightly nervous apprehension….. no, wait, we already wrote a post about that! It’s been overwhelming the amount of love we have felt from friends, family and Read more

Back in 2013 (ish), when I was young enough to still have hair sticking out from that flat cap I never took off, and at the time when I had too much money to know what to do with, I bought a classic mini – On my lunch break. It looked great in the advert. Read more

* (noun) Swedish: The restless race of a traveller’s heart before the journey begins, when anxiety and anticipation are tangled together; a ‘travel fever’ that can manifest as an illness. In hindsight, making the decision and setting our departure date was the easy bit. No one ever talks about the bit after the decision is Read more

It started as a silly joke really – When general adulting just felt exhausting; the frustrations of work were getting to us; or we were tired of debating which type of skirting board we needed (!) the flippant side comments just seemed to come so easily – ‘Doesn’t matter when we are cycling around the Read more