Category Archives: Expedition Log

Writing is a critical part of my travels. This category contains articles from current and past expeditions. Some good starting points include the day I first left home, the biggest turning-point in my life so far, heading into Iran after an unplanned six-month hiatus in Armenia, and the start of a new solo ride to Africa and Arabia.

Europe From A New Perspective

I think hav­ing my wife along­side me for this, the final leg of my three-year bike jour­ney through three con­tin­ents and down one aisle, is going to be a really good thing.
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Confessions of a Novice Cycle Tourist

So, Tenny, what are you doing today, and why are you doing it? Today? Well now I’m drink­ing my cof­fee before I start sort­ing things out, pack­ing, clean­ing the flat, cook­ing… yeah. And why are you pack­ing and sort­ing things out and clean­ing the flat?
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Moving Forward From Vanilla Cycle Touring

Five years ago, I inven­ted cycle-touring. After reject­ing back­pack­ing out-of-hand as a ful­filling post-university form of escap­ism, I even­tu­ally hit upon the idea to ride a bicycle — a bicycle! — from Eng­land, all the way to Croa­tia. The loose motiv­a­tion for this was to visit a friend, but hav­ing a cool adven­ture in exotic, [...]
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Four Spectacular Moments From Mongolia

These com­pos­ite shots are from moments dur­ing my time in Mon­go­lia when I made a spe­cial effort to cap­ture the essence of the land­scape and the atmosphere. You can be the judge of how suc­cess­ful I was!
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The Long Road Back To Yerevan

Com­ing home meant two things: a very long jour­ney by pub­lic trans­port, and lug­ging an unwieldy col­lec­tion of funny-shaped bags and bits of metal through a vari­ety of cit­ies in the sum­mer heat. Choos­ing to travel exclus­ively by land meant that the excur­sion was really much more than just a bike ride in Mon­go­lia. It was [...]
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