We are currently in Manchester, England, preparing ourselves to travel by bicycle around the World starting on 2014.
As we will not race around the World, go through the shortest route, neither look for shortcut; this trip would take years. We seek to explore, discover and get to know those countries we visit; not to go just from point A to point B.
Our blog map so far.
January 2011: I started to travel. My plan was to make a few short trips during the year, my plan failed. I got caught by the travel bug, I started to join the dots and I didn’t come back home; I just continue backpacking on Europe. In a couple of months I replaced my first low cost flights for my thumb. I started to hitchhike.
“I hitchhiked more than 20.000 km, I put my feet on 25 countries thumbing up.”
Hitchhiking I covered thousands of kilometres, always without real plans, usually without map. I enjoy uncertainty, I still do. Reach a new country, a new currency and a new language without any previous research boost my adrenaline, make me feel life.
The road lead me to Riga, to meet Ilze.
We started to travel together a month later and we continue our adventures around Europe and Morocco, until we flew to SE Asia at the end of 2011.
We traveled for 6 months on Southeast Asia. We tried to live life as locals do. We tried to eat where locals do. We tried to move as locals did. We took songthaews and tuk-tuks, we rode, we cycled, we walked.
Singapur, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam changed our perception of life.
We are in England since June 2012. Considering that Ilze doesn’t speak Spanish and I don’t speak Latvian, we needed a neutral place where to work, save and plan our upcoming bicycle expedition.
Pedaling the World
In a few months we will start to ride our bicycles around the World. Right now we are gearing up, working and getting all the equipment.
We are planning to film this expedition with a DSLR and a action video camera. We will do our best for sharing with you our adventure.
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