The Road to Home
I can't stay in the UK forever, nor do I want to. I've been thinking about going home, and how I'm going to do it. I could just take the easy option, and get on a plane, but where would the fun be in that? Instead, I've decided to do something a bit more epic: I'm going to ride home. On my bike. By myself.
Departure date, was February 17 2007. From the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, 0° longitude, I traveled across Europe, then Turkey, Iran and up through Central Asia, before entering China. I went right across China to Beijing, then down to Hong Kong via Shanghai. From there I went down through South East Asia to Singapore, flew to Darwin, then rode down the centre of Australia to Adelaide, and across to Melbourne.
A short ride in New Zealand from Auckland to Whangarei, and I finally reached home on June 1 2008, 15.5 months and 29,511km after leaving London.