Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan… riding across one of these is an adventure. Riding all of them can be life-changing Kazakhstan, August It wasn’t Igor’s size that made him intimidating, being made more of beer than of muscle. Instead, it was the way every person in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, would bend over backwards to make…

An unexpected gift in the frozen Rockies It was a beautiful sunny morning but very, very cold, way below freezing. There was no point starting early. I needed to wait for the day to warm up, knowing it wouldn’t be any warmer in the mountains, and I needed to figure…

Riding across Siberia, Alistair finds himself in trouble when his bike snaps. Will he make it to Hotel Vladivostok? Stick or Twist? Siberian rain drummed against the window. The Bavarian-themed Beerhaus, a block over from Hotel Sapporo, was just as empty as the rest of Khabarovsk. The rain that had led me to…