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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Cycling in South Korea :: Fall 2008
These photos were taken on an epic 350km 2.5 day trip in South Korea. Jared (New Zealand) at left, Dave (Canada) next poking his head over the table and me with the green cap. Jared was the lead of navigation having a Garmin GPS equipped to his Scott 20. Dave rode a Grasshopper recumbent super-bike. I rode a borrowed ICON from a Korean friend. We rode from Seongnam (Southeast Seoul) 350kms to Daegu in just 2 and 4 1/2 hours. The last 100+kms were completed in just over 4 hours!!! It was a wonderful trip with 2 of the 4, WEBSITE= http://www.brakingboundaries.org team members. We stopped in Suanbo Springs the first night after riding 134kms. The second day was a brisk 103kms into Andong, where we took in the Korean Mask Festival. That was mixed with a carnival, several stage performance shows including an inspiring amateur Tae Kwon Do ~high-kick and choreographed performance. We finished the tour in Daegu, actually the city wasn't spectacular at all, the roads between cities were where we found solstice and the friendly Korean papparazzi taking our photos. Overall, it was a fabulous trip, and we have another 1 day 138km mountain loop planned for November. It's nice having friends that not only ride, but also love bikes, they are always an inspiration in my life! Blessings to all cyclists, and anyone who can give up the engine to go the distance. BP
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About the Korean-World Author
Brian has completed his second mountain bike journey, MongoliaX expedition - Crossing Mongolia 2012, an unsupported mountain bike MTB expedition across 2500km of Outer Mongolia from Ulanbaatar to Altai Taven-Bogd National Park bordering China, Russia and Mongolia.
In 2013, as a sequel to a trilogy of cycle tours, Brian enjoyed a more leisure bicycle tour onboard his Koga-Miyata World Traveller seeing the northern tier of the United States and western Canada covering 3400 kilometers / 2000 miles in 30 days. This North American cycle tour was called Totherocktour. Enjoying the adventure of bicycle travel and every great conversation started while traveling on the road - has refueled his inspirations to cycle around the Earth. In 2013, while he cycled solo from the Great Lake State of Michigan, United States to Banff National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. He weaved through local communities and reconnected with friends, family and community after spending almost a decade in Asia.
Brian is now supporting several non-profit foundations through expeditions: IDEAS Foundation of Canada IDEAS is the acronym for Intestinal Disease Education and Awareness Society which supports the IBD community, those suffering from IBD-inflammatory bowel disease, also known as Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis.
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