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Looking back at 2008

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Dec 31, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Memories of life on the road sometimes feel quite distant now. On New Year’s Eve last year I was in Syria – looking ahead to the challenges of cycling through Jordan, Egypt and across north Africa....

Another cyclopath

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Dec 18, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Writing and photography are two obvious ways to document an expedition. Filming is the other, but when you are both cameraman and actor this can be a challenge, as proven by Rob Lilwall in this humorous video. Rob...

Inspiration for women

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Dec 16, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

It’s rare to meet women on a solo bicycle tour, particularly in Muslim countries. I occasionally get e-mails and questions from women who are thinking of cycling through Asia. They ask me if I think...

Calendar for Christmas

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Dec 3, 2008 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

I took around 24,000 photos during my 3-year trip. Before the age of digital cameras that would have created some big problems, and costs. Looking over and editing them during the last several months has been an...

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7 Feb

End of the road. Arriving in Cape Town (several days before this picture was taken) was a bit of an anticlimax. No fanfare or celebrations - just a stranger in another foreign place, as I had been everywhere else in Africa. That this would be the end of my long journey throu…

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2 Feb

Coasting to the coast. The last time I'd seen the Atlantic Ocean on my journey through Africa was in Cameroon, so it was a welcome sight as I turned off the main highway and descended to the coast. I wasn't far away from Cape Town, which is where this journey would end. Afte…

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27 Jan

Into South Africa. I was more nervous about entering South Africa than I have been about entering most other countries on a bicycle. Most news reports from the country focus on its high crime rates, and many people had forewarned me about how dangerous i… https://t.co/RXoY6kanHM

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