I’m travelling around the world rather slowly (5 years so far), and on a fairly small budget. Check out the Bike Ramble Blog to read the ramblings or the Bike Ramble Photos to see snaps of my bicycle adventures.
I’ve been travelling long distance by bicycle since 2010, and packed up and left Scotland in 2014 with three bags strapped to a bike. I sold all my stuff back home and don’t really have a plan; usually just going with the flow. I mainly travel solo, but also meet people on the way. This is a self-supported journey without taking any planes, buses or cars. I’m a bit of a purist that way. I work abroad as an English teacher, in hostels or other projects to fund my travels. Or maybe I’m a drug dealer (that’s a joke, Mum). I hate adverts and affiliate crap so you won’t find any on this website. I’m not sponsored by anybody either.
I woke up at -10°C in a culvert of frozen shit under a road at 4,000m (13,000 ft). It was the beginning of my first full day in China, and if I weren’t so pessimistic, I would have supposed things could only get better.
Accused of being a spider as I cross from Tajikistan into China over the Kulma Pass
Cycling one of the highest plateaus in the world, at over 4000m in the Pamirs, on the second-highest international highway in the world.
Cycling further up the valley and making the river crossing at Savnob.
We were invited to a wedding in the Pamirs, the heart of Tajikistan.
It was here, on the edge of nowhere, that I considered my own home and possessions.
