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
Could You Spend Two Years Bikepacking? Paula and Juan Pablo
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Juan Pablo's first bike trip was a huge solo journey over 16 months. Then he came home to Chile, met Paula, they got married and six weeks after their wedding they both got on bikes and started bikepacking together..
All up they hope to spend two years on this adventurous version of a honeymoon.
We discuss:
- Bikepacking as a couple: a newlywed honeymoon covering 20,000km
- Solo bike touring: 19,000km across Turkey, the Middle East, and Africa
- Bikepacking Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia: expectations vs. reality
- Route planning and gear for long-distance cycle touring
- Relationship and communication tips for touring as a couple
- Bike mechanical failures and storm survival on tour
- Juan Pablo's 104 tips for bike travel
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