Starting from scratch I've noticed your blog on the site for some time, and have read snippets here and there. Now I am finally sitting down and reading it from start to finish. I'll let you know when I'm done.
Fantastic Blogs Most amzaing blog I have ever read (as I am also a cyclist, but i would never dream of doing a trip like that)
Intresting read. Fantastic Adventure. Feels like we were there with ya. Well Done!
Great ending but... unfortunately, it is an ending, which sucks. I guess I just didn't want it to come to an end, and funnily enough I feel kinda bummed-out that it is over (I can only imagine what it must have been like for you at that moment), anywayz, looking forward to reading more memorablogs of your other excursions...
kathryn missed out what can i say? very inspiring. all i can say, kathryn, your girl back in 2002 missed out by not waiting for you. her loss, the story was missing a happy ending with her after all the longing. if you ever turn this into a movie, make sure you and her get together in the end!
Great end! I was following your blog for the past few months (i believe from China on). Excellent read with nice photos. Gave me to think, whether to do some similar stuff or not (though i don't have such friends to do it with me).
This "five years after" post was just great, just to see what former travellers do five years on...
Till next epic journey Andy, has been a real pleasure to follow in real time (but 5 years after it actually took place) the whole journey from UK till Singapore. It would be nice to read journals about other similar bike trips you have done in the past. And, by the way, happy birthday.
Marco
Thanks for the inspiration It is so inspiring to see what happens five years later... does that travel bug stay with you? I think for most it does, but whether you do something about it is another thing altogether... it is great to see that everyone did!!
A nice ending That was fantastic trip, and finding out what happened later makes for a nice ending.
After doing something like that, I could see where going back to a computer or whatever for 20 years would drive someone nuts. I guess its a good thing that I just read things like this on a computer rather than doing stuff like this.
Thanks for sharing your story.
Congratulations 13,000 miles and you get "home" and your parents aren't in! I know somehow that will happen to me. Brilliant blog. I haven't read so many of your blogs as I'm on my own cycle trip I its too much to read them in crappy internets cafes after e-mailing my folks to tell them I'm not dead. BUT when I saw you'd finished I had to read it. For some reason it almost felt like I'd finished my own trip myself just reading yours. I'll print the rest out when I get home, even if it does cost me 50quid in printer ink. Congrats mate. stayloose - ben
A tear A tear slipped down my face as I read this blog. I know how devestated I feel after coming back from a month in Thailand let alone this trip.
I have loved these. I am no cycler and never will be due to health problems, but I do have a free spirit. These blogs have enabled me to live through these experienses.
Thank you Andy so much.
Maybe see you in Blackpool.
Jax
Amazing journey!!! Amazing journey!!! .. When sitting here at my desk at work your blog has been an escape from the dull office 9-5. Im saving for my own epic journey..2009! wish it could be sooner. Not one to write much for this kinda thing but since the bog is ending I wanted to say thanks. You really should publish your travels as a book.
Jason
Inspirational Hi Andy, have been reading your blog and its an inspiration, im off on my round the world adventure in dec07 and reading your blog has just made even more determined to go off on my adventure,its cool that im not the only male veggie either,everyone seems to thing nothing of women being veggies, but i always seemed to get questioned about it, do you still live near Manchester?
I live in Sale at the moment
Take care
Mike:)
Wow, the trip's over, but I don't want it to be over...can't wait for the where are we now blog, and hopefully the next memorablog from your previous travels
Awesome What a great experience, not only for you, but for I, the reader. Can't wait for the "Where are they all now" blog, and I'm sure hoping you do open up the journal and print more of your prior and current travels.
sensational Good stuff Andy, your blogs were an inspiration to travellers all over the world. Hope 5 years on, things are still going well for you and the group.
Cheers to all the lads.
well done Well well well done. what an achievement. I have loved these and would like to thank you for sharing. I feel that I have been along on some of these journeys.
Thanks again.
Can't wait for another.
Jackie
Hi! I'm Andy Ganner, known as the "BIKEPACKER". Meaning I put everything on my bike; tent, cooker, clothes, food, tent, and sleeping bag... and just set off on an adventure.
Been doing it nearly 20 years and have hand-written journals for every trip from my RTW backpacking trip of 1986, up to present.
Over the next years I'll be publishing my "Memorablogs" of these trips. It will take time as there are many slides to scan, I only went digital in 2009.
You can already read the epic England to Singapore trip: 2001 a Bike Odyssey, now. It's all there, word for word from my written jour... full info
The Sushi Cowboy
Camille & Denise
Starting from scratch
I've noticed your blog on the site for some time, and have read snippets here and there. Now I am finally sitting down and reading it from start to finish. I'll let you know when I'm done.