Some of the best of over 4,000 photographs, including some basic pictures of bicycle touring such as: bicycle, tent, stove, food, etc. Of course, I'm saving some of my best for the book and slideshows :)
The before and after picture.
The bicycle.
Plus 60 pounds of gear, plus food and water. Sani Pass,
Lesotho. After climbing1600 meters, sometimes up an unbelievable 36% grade dirt road.
Weather. The same location as the last picture after getting caught in a blizzard. 18 inches of
snow.
The tent. An ideal campsite in Lesotho. Notice: the tent is pitched
through the bicycle to prevent thieves from walking away.
The kitchen. Preparing coffee.
The bicycle dashboard.
A common vantage for 4 years.
Water. Flitering about 12 liters of fresh water per day was a chore that could take hours. It took me two years to realize that I could just siphon my water through the filter.
Hotels. About once a week I would get a hotel to wash, mend and maintain.
Mountains. Climbing my first mountain pass in California. Only thousands of mountains to go including the Rockies, Andes and Himalayas. Photo by Dennis Snader.
Dennis cycling through Yosemite National Park
Dennis moving house.
Monoliths. El Capitan.
Restaurants.
Chili peppers drying on the road in Baja, Mexico
Shrines. One of tens of thousands of road-side shrines I rode past.
Scenery. Decorated volcano. Baja, Mexico.
Deserts. Cacti forest. Baja, Mexico. The daily temperature in the shade exceeded 120ºF (50ºC).
Oddities. Drunken monkey. Alcoholic pet monkey steals a bottle of rum, gets drunk, falls out of the rafters, dies, and gets stuffed.
Food. Meat
hanging out to dry, Dennis ate at this restaurant before looking around the corner.
Wildlife. The Monarch Butterfly Reserve, Mexico. Hundreds of monarchs clinging to a pine tree.
Roads. One of many rough but equally beautiful roads. Why is that the bigger and smoother the road, the uglier the scenery and dirtier the air?
Camping. Dennis watching shepherds passing through our camp in a Mexican riverbed. We camped in riverbeds frequently. Glad it never rained.
Art. Decorative animals for the tourists. Southern Mexico.
This man walks to the top of the mountain every day, then rolls his cart of wood to the village below.
Kids. Guatemalan girls posing for a photograph and tips with watchful mothers.
Language. My Spanish teacher striking a pose in Antigua, Guatemala
Festivals. Sawdust street paintings for the Easter parade
Teenage women making tortillas 12 hours a day every day.
Border crossing. Don't forget to get the bond receipt for your bicycle, so you can get out the other side of the country.
Roadkill. Boys in El Salvador investigating a baby whale washed ashore, possible run over by a boat. Some unfortunate "lowlights" of my trip were roadkill, trucks, pollution and terrorism.
Iguanas for sale. "Good food."
Work. Banana harvest in Nicaragua.
At last Scott is fit again and can admire his inner tiger
A tree full of igunas
Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica
Volcano in early morning light. Ecuador.
Most people don't own a phone
Volcano beginning to erupt. Ecuador.
Sacred valley and the lost city of the Incans from Machu Picchu mountain on the Incan Trail
Incan Lawn mower. The famous llama. "Como se llama, llama?"
Alto Plano, Peru
Muddy "shortcut"
Moss and volcano, Bolivian Alto Plano
One of the coolest and most bizarre places on the planet. Isla
de Pescado and salt flats of Bolivia, Salar de Uyuni
Tree rock
Salvador Dali Rocks, Bolivia
Contemplating how to get to the next city with a broken bicycle rack.
Bicycle repair. Rack temporarily fixed by using a door hinge.
One of hundreds of river crossings in Bolivia. Sometimes the roads turned into the rivers.
Stuck in the mud in the Chaco Desert. Dennis and I could not even
walk.
Family and friends. I was honored to have been hosted by families around the world. Like this family, many literally had no money.
Politics. El Che Guevara. "Viva La Revolucion!" Argentina.
Farms and agriculture. "Hairy coo." Scotland
Lore and legend. Loch Ness Monster
Corfu Castle, England
Sunflowers
Citadel & Eglise Notre Dame on River Meuse, Dinant, Belgium
Castle and church, Lake Bled, Slovenia
History. Roman Arena in Croatia
Monk skuls in the Holy Monastery of the Great Meteoron, Greece.
Parthenon, Greece
Standing out like a sore bicyclist in a Turkish cafe.
Blue Mosque, Turkey
The Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
Mohammed the camel driver and Charlie Brown the camel.
Sphinx
God(s). Outside of a Hindu temple
Hampi, India. Temple from Hemakuta Hill
Women. Indian women planting rice
Toilets. Most disgusting bathroom in the world. India. Toilet story -- every traveler's got one.
Indian gas station. Note all the spilled oil.
New Delhi in the steamy rain.
Scott in the Maharaja's throne with his self-appointed guides. Next on the tour, visiting the king cobra's home.
Jaisalmer Fort, Rajastan
Scott invents bicycle yoga in the himalayas. India.
Traffic Jam. Blocked by wild elephants, Bardia National park
Close up of previous picture. 11 out of the 60 remaining elephants in Nepal cross the road in front of me.
Traffic. The imfamous Tata truck run off the road. So much for the minature hindu shrine inside. Trucks and cars and the pollution were the major flaw with riding a bicycle around the world.
Nepalese celebrating Holi, the color festival
Tibet. Ruined buildings, perhaps monestaries in the distance.
On the road to Mt. Everest
Mt. Everest and yaks at sunset from Base Camp I
Everest Base Camp I
Tea
with local Tibetan farmers
Thai Monks waiting for a buddha
The wheel of life
Campground on Phucket Beach, Thailand. (Two years later a tsunami
wiped out the beach.)
Vietnamese dolls for sale
A conical limestone mountain, a common sight in South East Asia
Can you see the tiny fisherman on his houseboat?
Culture. Traditional H'mong women. northern Vietnam
Saltwater crocodile, Northern Territory, Australia. The man-eating variety. Salties.
Freshwater crocodile. The relatively harmless crocodile. The freshie. Who has time to tell the difference?
Bike and termite hill. An outback adventure.
Devil's marble
Windmill and outback sunrise. Gotta get up early to beat the heat.
Survival. Carrying 26 liters (57 pounds) of water through the Australian Outback. I needed special permission from the Aborigine Land Council for this adventure. Basically, I had to convince them I wouldn't make a nuisance of myself by dying.
The outback, back o' beyond, no man's land, and the middle of nowhere.
Uluru (Ayer's Rock ). The biggest monolith (rock) world. in the Even more amazing is the 1500 kilometers of nothingness in every direction.
Personal achievement. Cycling up the Guinness Book's record for the World Steepest Hill in Baldwin Street, Dunedin, New Zealand. And I'm doing it fully-loaded. I've cycled up steeper unpaved roads.
Natural phenomena. Franz Josef Glacier, NZ
Inside Franz Josef Glacier, NZ
Fairy-tale mushrooms. The poisonous kind.
Masaai warriors, Kenya. Springtime flowers.
Daily life. Typical Tanzanian fruit and veg market
Life. A daily chore for me and African women: fetching water
Picturesque acacia tree. With beehives made out of hollow tree trunks by the villagers.
Getting my machete sharpened by a man with homemade bicycle grinder
World wonders. Victoria Falls viewed from Zambia. Reminds me of Tarzan and the Apes.
Victoria Falls one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World as viewed from Zambia
Wild African
Bull elephant
Giraffe sculpture and bicycle
Snow in Africa ?!
Visiting the corner store.
Kids are curious all over the world. Lesotho
Traditional Basotho men after sacrificing a goat.
Even babies are curious
Zulu women, South Africa
Cabbage
Impala skull
Fynbos flowers a plant kingdom (1 of 7) endemic only in South Africa.
Newfound friend.
Beach houses near Cape Town.
Sunset on my last full day of cycling
Fog and Table Mountain, reminds me of San Francisco
Sporting the Grizzly Adams look. Table Mountain, Cape Town in the background.
Halfway up Table Mountain, can't bike any further.
Celebrating on Table Mountain. The end of the road. Or is it?
Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa and Scott waving hello-goodbye.
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