Here are the videos of where the day went wrong. David Breaks a Spoke Now the Weather David Gets Dirty

Here are the videos I took on the day we decided to take the road less never traveled. This is a 2 part post as there are six videos. Getting on the Road Dark Tunnels Avoiding Traffic

In Kazakstan, a Mars still helps me work, rest, and play. Mmmm.

A while back our friend Craig from South Korea made a comment on a post asking us to write a post about 3 things we wished we didn’t bring and 3 things did you wish we had with us. Immediately after I mentioned this, Katie turned around, looked at us lads and said “I know [...]

I have finally had the time to collate a bunch of photos and have put together a new photo album of our travels across China. If you use Facebook then you would have seen most of these on Tom and Jared’s profiles, however there are other photos that are exclusive to this album.

Today is the day we should be crossing the Kazakhstan border marking the completion of our first and biggest country. With well over 5500 kms under our belt now we are trucking along just fine, looking forward to the learning curve that will be faced when entering a new country, culture and language. So on [...]

It has taken 5700km, 74 days, 2 visa extensions and a long time sitting on our bikes, but on the 24th of June 2009 we made it to the Chinese border town of Korgos. As I sit here early on the morning of the 25th thinking about packing and getting ready to make my first [...]

We had the opportunity to chill out in Urumqi for just under and week while waiting for our Kazakh visas to be processed. Urumqi seems to be a hub for the more adventurous types with people showing up in 4WD trucks, on motorcycles and also bikes. This is where we had the opportunity to meet [...]

Nothing like waking up to a gorgeous day in a valley far away from the noise of Xi’an to see that the truck traffic jam that had been avoided the nday before now stretched 30km or so. Here is the tail end of it. [mediaplayer src="http://www.brakingboundaries.org/wp-content/uploads/video/traffic-jam.wmv"] To watch movies on the Braking Boundaries site you [...]

As you would expect, riding in the desert involves carrying a lot of water. Most days we can get away with 3-6 liters on the bike and refill at small towns or villages along the way, but there have been a few days where carrying over a days supply plus enough for camping has been [...]

Or at least, they wont be televised live. Our steady stream of posts and videos is set up that way for a reason: to ensure that you, the reader or viewer, are drip-fed just enough high-quality content to ensure your continued interest. Were we to drown you in a deluge of info, you might get [...]

Over the past couple of days you have been able to read about our mission to get to Urumqi in a day. Here is some footage of that trip.

A few days into this Tour de Fun, my dad came up with a brilliant idea: to send me one quotation for every day I’m away. I initially thought, perhaps, his words of wisdom would be sources of divine inspiration for a struggling cyclist in the throes of China. Typical to my father’s style, however, [...]

We are now in possession of our Kazakh visas. They have an entry date of June 25th, giving us a definite exit date for China. We can’t enter Kazakhstan before that date and, barring any unforeseen complications, should comfortably reach the border by then. Finishing our first country, the largest one of the trip, will [...]

I said before the trip that it would make us appreciate the simpler things in life. One of those things would definitely be the use of a proper porcelain throne. Squatting is the norm for pretty much all of Asia. The people here have been doing it all their lives and have developed the necessary [...]