
In Search of the Aral Sea – From Khiva to Moynaq, Uzbekistan
Rather than retrace the direct route to the main road via Urgench, cycled along the smaller roads for a short cut towards Nukus. Riding through small towns and farmland. Uninspiring.…
Rather than retrace the direct route to the main road via Urgench, cycled along the smaller roads for a short cut towards Nukus. Riding through small towns and farmland. Uninspiring.…
Because it had taken three hours for the taxi driver to find 3 other passengers, it was well after dark when I arrived in Tortkul. So rather than cycling out…
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…
Revived after a couple of days of rest. Ready to reap the rewards of Baja’s best. From Guerrero Negro on the Pacific Coast, we traversed the Baja peninsula again. The…
She didn’t call us crazy! I could barely remember another time in the US when, having seen our bikes or telling people what we’re doing (which is riding bikes…just quite…
We crossed the border from California to Mexico at Mexicali. Without lingering, we pedalled south to San Felipe and on through Puertecitos to the horrendous dirt roads. Eventually we rejoined…
Southwest Utah is stunning. Wonders of nature abound. Wind and water have worked together over millennia to carve a country of deep canyons, creeks and citadel-style rock formations that compel…
Glad to be leaving Las Vegas, it was a dull day down the interstate to the California border. From there, we cycled through the Mohave desert, crossed old Route 66…
It was hard to leave Ely. One hell of a headwind. And with bad weather, in the way of snow, forecast it would have been easy to stay. But we…
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…
I’ve just created a short video of the cycle from Morocco through the Western Sahara and Mauritania. You can check it out on my new website: Helen’s Take On… video…
Not much mentioning of the bike recently? Apart from one puncture (the first since Ghana, 8,000km ago) it’s been a smooth ride. Good tarmac roads since I left Lubumbashi –…
From Sesriem I took a short trip to Sossuvlei to see the dunes there. Pretty stunning but dunes nonetheless. And I’ve seen a lot of dunes now! But with all…
The latest photos are from the ride from Uis to Henties Bay on the Namibian skeleton coast. Apart from sand, sky and my bike, there wasn’t really much else to…
Well after a week of wet marking my entry into Namibia, things started to brighten up. Not only did the sun come out, but I got off the tarmac roads…
I had heard that leaving Timbuktu can be a time-consuming challenge. So when I was in Kourioume, still 10km prior to arriving, I was searching out ways to leave. The…
Djenne Djenne is a sleepy place. Except for Mondays. Monday is market day. Market day means hundreds of people arrive in town, congregate, congest the streets. They usher in goats…
Since my last update in Nouakchott, where I signed off at the point of disembarkation of the iron-ore train with decision to take a bush-taxi to Atar in the depths…
In search of a beer – Photos from Nouadhibou, Mauritania to St. Louis in Senegal…
…This is Africa After spending the best part of a week travelling through the desolate desert, arriving in Nouadhibou was an assault on the senses…. it felt like we had…