Despite a rocky/sandy start the roads of Azerbaijan soon turned into beautiful tree lined ups and downs. Now all we need to do is avoid the traffic.

Two days into riding Azerbaijan I became so dehydrated that I couldn’t ride so we decided to take an unscheduled day off and head to a place we read about in the lonely planet called Lahic. Here is how we spent our day off.

20 days ago Katie and I said goodbye to our beloved team mate Tom and a day later left Istanbul on our own path through Europe. It came as a fantastic surprise that not more than 2 days later after getting off to a bad start and narrowly avoiding being washed away, Zee German (Thorsten) [...]

For those of you who don’t already know our friend Stacy featured the BB team in a write up for her very trendy online magazine Discounderworld. You can read it on her site in issue #11 or download the pdf version here Thank you Stacy. We appreciate your support and promotion of our favorite charity [...]

I keep forgetting to put these online. TBSeFM contacted way back in Urumqi, China and most recently when we were waiting for the the ferry in Aktau, Kazakhstan. Listen to the Urumqi interview : Urumqi Listen to the Aktau interview : Aktau

My mum was kind enough to contact the local paper. They caught up with me while we were having a break in Tiblisi, Georgia and have since published an article about the trip. I have uploaded the article as a downloadable PDF file for anyone who would like to read it. Download the Star Article [...]

To pass the time along the Black Sea of Turkey I asked this question to myself and the team. You know you have been cycling too long when……. Waiting to take a dump in the woods seems like a better idea than using a public or paid toilet in a city. You start to wonder [...]

Uzbekistan, although not initially on our place to cycle turned out to be a very interesting place with amazing, friendly people and interesting cities. See the country through our eyes with the latest albums

Bukhara, like Samarkand had many very old, Indiana Jones style buildings and streets to wander. Here are some of my favorite images from the city.

The black market is the best place to get the best rate for USD in Uzbekistan.

Samarkand, an ancient city in Uzbekistan has some amazing buildings that date back over 500 years old. Here are some of my favorite images from the city

We learned that if you pay the right guard near the Registan in Samarkand that he would let you climb the Minaret.

After cycling 6000 km across China without meeting any other cyclists on the road (except the Koons brothers who were heading home) we were starting to wonder if we were the only ones out there. It turns out that they were all in Central Asia. As mentioned in a previous post we met the Belgian [...]

It was no more than 12 hours into Uzbekistan before we were invited into a strangers home to stay the night. I caught some of this on video.

In todays digital age it has been extremely easy to bring you digital photos from our trip virtually as they happen, but imagine a trip where the memories you bring back are more than files on a small piece of plastic. This is exactly what our friend Taka does. We first met Taka in Bishkek, [...]