The Vitals Dates: December 5 – 17, 2018 Location: Vientiane to Thakhek (bus) then to Don Det (bicycle) Distance: 543 km cycled Photos by Brittany Total Route The Trip We’ve ridden 80 days since leaving Almaty on August 12 but without the benefit of rail, steamer, or hot air balloon, we have yet to circumnavigate the […]
The Vitals Dates: November 17, 2018 – December 4, 2018 Location: Mengla, China to Vientiane, Laos Distance: 660 km Photos by Brittany Downloadable GPS track for this section is at the bottom of this post. The Trip Northern Laos Riding every day really had me down for a while in November and it was exacerbated by […]
The Vitals Dates: Nov. 6 – 16, 2018 Location: Jinangcheng to Mengla, China Distance: ~455 km in 8 riding days Photos by Brittany Downloadable GPS track for this section is at the bottom of this post. The Trip Brittany and I are sitting in the city of Mengla, one short day from the border with Laos. […]
The Vitals Dates: October 23 – November 4, 2018 Location: Kunming, China to Jiangcheng, China Distance: ~615 km cycled (8 cycling days) Partners: Brittany Activities: Cycle touring/bikepacking Photos by Brittany Downloadable GPS tracks and interactive maps for each day are at the bottom of the post. The Trip I’m sure you’ve heard of a “Chinatown” before, […]
The Vitals Dates: October 4 – 11, 2018 Location: Dushanbe, Tajikistan to Samarkand, Uzbekistan Distance: 401 km cycled Partners: Brittany Activities: Cycle touring/bikepacking Photos by Brittany Downloadable GPS tracks and interactive maps for each day are at the bottom of the post. The Trip If you stuck a toothpick into the Central Asian section of our […]
Riding Stats Overall Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Uzbekistan Total km 2539 313 983 1183 60 Riding days 46 5 19 21 1 km/riding day 55.2 62.6 51.7 56.3 60 Total days 61 5 30 25 1 km/day 41.6 62.6 32.8 47.3 60 Days camping 33 5 12 16 0 Longest Day: 98 km (entering Dushanbe) […]
The Vitals Dates: September 12 – 29, 2018 Location: Osh, Kyrgyzstan to Dushanbe, Tajikistan Distance: ~1067 km cycled Partners: Brittany Activities: Cycle touring/bikepacking Resources: bikepacking.com amongst various blogs Photos by Brittany Downloadable GPS tracks and interactive maps for each day are at the bottom of the post. A note on Apricots The featured photo I used […]
The Vitals Dates: August 30, 2018 – September 7, 2018 Location: Naryn, Kyrgyzstan to Osh, Kyrgyzstan Distance: ~316 km cycled Partners: Brittany Activities: Cycle touring/bikepacking Resources: Tian Shan Traverse Photos by Brittany Downloadable GPS tracks and interactive maps for each day are at the bottom of the post. The Trip A good one word synopsis of our […]
The Vitals Dates: August 22, 2018 – August 27, 2018 Location: Karakol, Kyrgyzstan to Naryn, Kyrgyzstan Distance: ~325 km Partners: Brittany Activities: Cycle touring/bikepacking Resources: Tian Shan Traverse Photos by Brittany Downloadable GPS tracks and interactive maps for each day are at the bottom of the post. Sidenote on the Kyrgyz flag We just realized when we […]
The Vitals Dates: August 12, 2018 – August 18, 2018 Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan to Karakol, Kyrgyzstan Distance: ~420 km Partners: Brittany Activities: Cycle touring/bikepacking Photos by Brittany Downloadable GPS tracks and interactive maps for each day are at the bottom of the post. The Trip We were held in Almaty by a mighty rain storm until […]
The Vitals Dates: August 6, 2018 – August 12, 2018 Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan Partners: Brittany Activities: City touring, Hiking, Gearing up for bikepacking Photos by Brittany The Trip We left Vancouver on August 6th and after 42 hours and three flights we landed in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the jumping off point for our bikepacking trip. It turns […]
The Vitals Dates: June 29 – July 2, 2018 Location: Broken Group Islands, BC Partners: Brittany, Dawn, Nikki, AT, Tom, Nicole, Jeet, Christian Time: Four days Photos by Brittany The Trip July long weekend of the year of 30th birthdays in my 1988 cohort. Tom’s June birthday falls close enough to the weekend that his wife […]
The Vitals Dates: May 6 – 10, 2018 Location: Southeast Oregon Partner: Brittany Distance: ~400 km, ~2700 meters Time: Five days Photos: Brittany GPS Tracks: see bottom of post Resources: Bikepacking.com, USGS maps, Printed maps (below) The Trip We drove down to Frenchglen, OR from Vancouver over two days, doing about 8 hours on Saturday travelling through […]
The Vitals Date: April 2 – 9, 2018 Location: Surabaya, Indonesia (and Bali) Purpose: Work, but with time to be a tourist Trip In the past two years it seems that every few months there is a sudden, immediate need for me to travel somewhere international for work. This time around it was to the […]
The Vitals Dates: January 22 -24, 2018 Location: Cerise Creek Partners: Jan, Dave, Christian Distance: ~30 km, ~3000 meters Time: Three moderate days Photos: Greg and Jan GPS Tracks: see below The Trip A three-day trip gives the city dweller the unique opportunity to blow out zones a bit further afield. For this mid-week trip, […]