Have we ever mentioned how awesome our parents are? Well, it’s true. And we wanted to take this Father’s Day to bring honor to both sets of our parents—fathers and mothers. They have done so much to empower and encourage us in our entire lives, but especially as we have embarked on this journey. Let’s...
Before we even left on our trip almost two years ago, we began a campaign to have people meet us along the way. We’ve always hoped that friends and family from home would be a part of our journey by sharing in the experience of it with us. We’ve had lots of family come and...
I thought my left arm might be permanently damaged. Well, maybe not permanently, but I knew at a minimum, it was seriously fazed. I couldn’t lift it without feeling some kind of combination of pain and exhaustion. I was both disappointed and frustrated… after all, I would consider myself to be in decently good shape....
After being on the road more than a year and a half, we began to notice something: we seem to have developed our own “language” in regards to our life on the bikes. OK, so it’s not really a language… it’s all in English, but along the way, we’ve coined terms for different objects or...
We’re back. No, we’re not home. We’re not done traveling. We still have some 4,500+ miles to go. But we’re in the USA. And it feels good. We’ve really been talking about it for months. Our return to the homeland has been long-anticipated. We didn’t exactly want to rush our arrival to the US, because...
The Asian section of our journey had a clear beginning and now a clear end. We started in Hong Kong to get visas for China. We spent Christmas in Chengdu, China, with friends, then cycled south. We rode through Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and finally, into Singapore. We spent four and a half months...
