Seek Travel Ride
Want more adventure in your life? Hear real adventure travel stories and practical insights from people who explore the world in bold and meaningful ways by bike, on foot, and close to home.
Seek Travel Ride is an adventure travel podcast for anyone curious about travel and looking to bring more adventure into their everyday.
Host Bella Molloy chats with adventurers and everyday people about bicycle touring, cycle touring, bikepacking, long-distance cycling, and other human-powered adventures. You’ll also hear slow travel, cultural discovery and micro-adventure stories that show adventure can happen anywhere.
Expect travel stories, helpful advice and practical tips you can use to shape your own adventures, whether you’re dreaming of world travel, planning your first bike travel journey, or starting small with something close to home.
Remember it doesn't need to be epic to be an Adventure!
Seek Travel Ride
Touring on a Brompton: Cycling Senegal with Two Strangers
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James Baile, along with two complete strangers (one of which hadn't ridden a bike since he was 13!) packed their Bromptons into IKEA bags and flew to Dakar. What followed was two weeks riding through Senegal and The Gambia: navigating Dakar rush hour, camping on school playgrounds by invitation of village chiefs, pushing loaded folding bikes through sand that felt like treacle, and sparking conversations with strangers over football allegiances.
In this episode we talk about:
- How a Facebook post about the Tropic of Cancer set the whole thing in motion
- What it's actually like to tour on a Brompton
- Riding a route that goes from the edges of the Sahara Desert to the beginnings of West African forest
- The reality of border crossings into Senegal and The Gambia for European travellers
- Taking an overnight ferry back to Dakar with Bromptons as hand luggage
- Why going somewhere with zero expectations means everything exceeds them
- James's next big adventure connecting a journey he started back in 1986
Give James a follow via his instagram - @jamesb.adventures and you can also listen to the previous episode with him here.
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