- Hey Lars,
I can probably afford the time off (60 days in summer) and complete segments of the expedition, like...Northwest2012, riding the Alaska Highway through Alaska, Yukon, NWT, Yukon and B.C. to Vancouver.
Then look at other sections, as you suggest. I can't afford an entire Panamerican ride, that is certain, and my wife wouldn't endure it well.
China was a great experiment into expeditions, I think I did my best to explore from a paper map, and although I was stopped from entering Tibet from Xinjiang/Uyghyur Autonomous Region, it was a surreal episode cycling in the northern Himalayas for a few days. I was forced to turn back to Yecheng and Kashgar, where I left my Chinese companion (Bruce Liu) and flew to Urumqi and Chengdu, Sichuan to begin the second leg, the toughest, through Sichuan and down to the borders at Lugu Hu, over to Lijiang, Yunnan and north to Deqin where I finished out.
It's tough without a social mechanism in place, like Jolandie Rust in South Africa, she has people buying countries she will ride through, a strong community backing. Here in Korea, to be honest, the Expat (Western cyclists) are mostly competitors, I am excluded from their clubs because of what I do, blog and ride hard. So, without community backing here in Korea, I can only cycle so far alone.
Your thoughts are always welcome, thanks for plugging for me, I seem to have a good international audience on my blog, share all information for free, but no donations come through that medium. I need to find another way.
My foundation supported, ETE http://www.etelive.org/ was started by Antony Jinman, now a Polar Explorer, he started with nothing but heart, arctic experiences and finally a strong media campaign in the UK, and his former university took interest too. He kept trekking Baffin Island in Canada for several years, build a reputation in Arctic exploring, and finally received considerable contributions for his expeditions and foundation start-up. I can't imagine that feeling right now. But I support him and his work, it's helped me launch, at least small expeditions and that's something for me, out of nothing to start with. I have loads of equipment all personally invested, enough to travel around the world, financing more travel is the difficult part.
Warm wishes,
Brian
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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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