Tag: cycling around the world
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Cycle Touring as Digital Detox – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 97 – 3 April 2019
– ODO- 12379 – 12536km – Location- Sitarganj, Uttarakhand, India – Weather- 18-33 Clear with head wind It’s been a long and dusty highway for my last full day riding in India, saddling the border of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Sections of unfinished highway cause huge traffic jams of trucks which I weave through. Their…
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Buffalo on the Loose – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 96 – 2 April 2019
– ODO- 12104 – 12379km – Location- Dhampur, Utter Pradesh, India – Weather- 18-33 Clear with slight head wind This morning I stopped for breakfast at a dhaba around 9-30. The roads in Haryana and Utter Pradesh are dusty as ever. They are lined with brick works with smoke stacks chucking out thick smoke. The…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 95 – 1 April 2019
– ODO- 12104 – 12227km – Location- Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India – Weather- 18-35 Clear Last night I picked a dusty campsite under a bridge. Now that I’ve left the mountains there are far fewer places to duck out of the way when the sun sets. Hence I played troll. Lots of the sand under…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 94 – 31 March 2019
– ODO- 11873 – 12104km – Location- Under a bridge, East of Chandigarh, Haryana, India – Weather- 18-35 Clear Even when I woke up I’d noticed the temperature had changed. In Bir the mornings were chilly. I kept my fleece on for breakfast. Just 130km south, over a few valleys and a few hundred meters…
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Arriving in Bir – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 92 – 19 March 2019
– ODO: 11742 – 11820km – Location: Bir, Himachal Pradesh, India – Weather: 12-24 Bright and clear I realised today that I’d seen the Himalayas before. From 38,000 feet as I flew to a conference in Australia in 2017. That first time the ridges and valleys seem to flatten out, splitting the sea of cloud.…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 91 – 18 March 2019
– ODO- 11618 – 11742km – Location- The Forest, Himachal Pradesh, India – Weather- 14-28 Clear Last night I had my sights set on camping. I’d been overcharged for a hotel last night and throughout the day I passed small patches of forest and remote tracks splitting from the highway. All teasing campsites but at…
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PSA – Change Your Bike Chain – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 89 – 16 March 2019
– ODO- 11249 – 11454km – Location- Kurukushetra, Punjab, India – Weather- 16-27 Escaping the smog in the morning I left Delhi this morning after two weeks held up in an AirBnB working on SendMusic. After four months in India I didn’t have much of a desire to see any tourists sights, only venturing into…
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Scam Me Once – Ben Around the World Podcast: Episode 8
I catch up with Dan about my 2,500km cycle across central India and the latest with HoxtonFM from Tokyo. Here are some links we discussed: Temples in the Clouds – The paragliding documentary that got me into the sport – http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/2996/Temples-in-the-Clouds Joe Rogan speaks to the climber Alex Honnold – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OhHkBmbb5Y
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Year in Review – Ben Bowler in 2018
This year started back in my little flat in south London. 10 years since my first dream of traveling around the world by bike it seemed like that dream might just be possible. A lot of planning and work began to pay off in May when I… Left to Cycling Around the World Against all…
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Chat with Josiah Skeats – Ben Around the World Podcast: Episode 6
I speak to Josiah Skeats who’s been cycling (skiing, cowboying and sailing) around the world for several years. Follow Josiah on his website: http://josiahskeats.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Josiahskeats/ and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josiahskeats/ Read about the North Indian Miracle: http://josiahskeats.com/miracle-in-north-india/ff And sailing from Australia to Africa: http://josiahskeats.com/swapping-pedals-for-sails-crossing-the-indian-ocean/