Georgia: A Bit of History

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”

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If you are anything like me you can probably hardly even place Georgia on a map (to the east of Turkey, south of Russia, north of Armenia) unless you have already been there, so a little history lesson is in store before we enter into this beautiful country. As a small country of five million inhabitants Georgia is a predominately Eastern Orthodox Christian country which is filled with vineyards, beautiful old churches (due to the fact that they adopted Christianity very early on, in the fourth century), small farming villages, and mountains. The Caucasus, which run down from Russia, host a range of peaks over 5,000m and an array of different national parks and beautiful landscapes to go along with it.

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Bikes In Boxes: How to Fly With Your Bike

“I suppose that was what attracted me to the bicycle right from the start. It is not so much a way of getting somewhere as it is a setting for randomness; it makes every journey an unorganized tour.”

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Many people have asked me how I got my bike to Asia (no, I did not cycle across the ocean) so I have decided to dedicate this post to the laborious process of boxing up a bike in order to fly with it.

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India Through the Lens: A Year of Memorable Moments Part 3

“Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.”

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365 days of homestays, high altitude cycling, and beautiful landscapes throughout India (a second time).

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Nepal Through the Lens: A Year of Memorable Moments Part 2

“If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans…”

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365 days of homestays, high altitude cycling, and beautiful landscapes throughout Nepal.

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India Through the Lens: A Year of Memorable Moments Part 1

“The journey itself is my home.”

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365 days of homestays, high altitude cycling, and beautiful landscapes throughout India.

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Blood, Fur, and Guts: Life in the Peruvian Altiplano

“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?”

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“Blood squirts out and onto the squealing guinea pig, who is about to reach the same fate as his brother. The knife tugs at the skin and fur, eventually severing the neck. Two decapitated guinea pigs staring at me with vacant eyes. An unknowing sheep that my trekking partner purchased a few days back is about to receive the same treatment. I have definitely never seen my meals so up close and personal before, and I’m not so sure I want to make a habit out of this.”

Check out the post I wrote for a fellow traveler about a wonderful night I spent in the middle of the Andes!

Blood, Fur, and Guts: Life in the Peruvian Altiplano