This latest short video is from our ride along the back roads (and virtually non-existent roads) of Nevada and Utah. We did eventually make it to town though. A rather big one in fact – Las Vegas! Was great biking, if somewhat hard work at times… If you’re interested, there’s more on this bit of [...]
One of the most beautiful roads I’ve cycled has to be highway 12 in Utah. From Torrey to Zion National Park, passing via Calf Creek Falls, Bryce Canyon and Red Canyon. We camped all the way. There had been snow a couple of days previously, it was still cold, and the ground still white. By [...]
And here is the video for the second half of our Nicaraguan packrafting adventure. From the confluence of the Rio Bocay, we paddled down the Rio Coco passing several Miskito villages. Some nights we camped in Honduras, others in Nicaragua. Eventually we made it safely to San Carlos below the rapids, which we either ran [...]
There’s no doubt about it. Packrafting in Nicaragua was one of the highlights of my journey through central America. Apologies for not yet finishing the blog of the trip. I will do it. In the meantime though, here’s a video of the bus ride from Jinotega and the following four days paddling it took to [...]
I cycled 2,000km acros the DRC. But the DRC is a huge country, and that still didn’t get me all the way. So by the time I reached Katanga province, a train ride seemed like an appealing option. From then on I knew the roads would be better, the hassles fewer. Cycling here had little [...]
While in Mali, travelling with a friend and without the bike, we spent three days walking along the Bandiagara escarpment in Dogon country. It really is best to go with a guide. Mamadou, our guide, was a wealth of information and without him, much of what we saw would have been interesting but fairly meaningless. [...]
Still one of my favourite parts for biking, was the three weeks we spent cycling from Guinea Bissau’s capital to Kindia in the south of Guinea on my ride through West Africa. The majority of the 1,000km (ish) was off-road. Guinea Bissau was wide orange dust tracks and narrow single-track paths through overgrown grass and [...]
Before I left England, I had envisaged being one of the toughest sections of my Take On Africa bike ride would be crossing the Sahara. I expected extreme heat and long lonely stretches of road with nothing to do but cycle and not much to look at either. I thought the fierce sun would be [...]
One of the highlights of my 20-month cycle ride through Africa, didn’t actually involve any cycling… it was in fact, the two weeks spent paddling a locally-made wooden pirogue (fisherman’s boat) down the Niger River. To say it was all fun would be a lie. It was one of the most physically demanding 2-weeks of [...]
