We are Clare and Gideon, from Worthing, on the South coast of the UK. When we’re at home, we’re WarmShowers and BunkABiker hosts. But hardly anybody comes because they all want to go to trendy Brighton.
2025
June: A year into the PanAm, and we’re stuck in Bogotá, Colombia. Yes, we’re in South America at last!. Unfortunately, in the process of all the long waits and awful seats associated with flying bikes and ourselves over the Darien Gap, Clare’s spranged her back. It’s now mostly better, thanks, but we’ve lost about a week waiting for it to resolve. Still, Bogotá is a perfectly ok place, and we’ve even now got ourselves a logo sticker, tadah!

2024
June: After a few shorter moto tours in the UK and Europe, we feel ready for another adventure. Have to get this done before a big birthday causes all the insurance agents to run screaming from our calls. We’re writing this in Palmer, Alaska, about 1,000 miles into a north to south Pan American Highway attempt. It’s taken a lot of preparation, especially getting our tatty bungalow fit to rent out. Y nosotros aprendemos un poco de español.
2022
We married. After 20 years together.
2018
Clare sez: No more cycling up mountains. I want an engine. Gideon had to go and learn to ride a motorcycle, Clare already having a ticket. Then Gideon has to learn how to fix one, and Clare becomes a riding instructor – this takes quite a few more years.
2016-2018
We opted to kick off Clare’s retirement (so Gideon retired too, it was meant to be a career break, but…) by cycling from our home to Australia, starting April 2016 to “whenever we got there”. So we allowed 2 years, which seemed ample. So ample that we decided to cycle the rest of the way round the globe back to home. Two years less five days saw us back home, after 6 very wet final weeks back in Europe. Here we are in Spain, at the special point that’s the antipode of a pub in New Zealand. A RTW has to pass a pair of such points, we’re told.
Spring 2018: Home! After a pleasant short day’s ride from Portsmouth ferry terminal back to Worthing, the big adventure is over. Many thanks to the wonderful people all round the globe who treated us so kindly. And to our families for putting up with it. Now we’d better try and reformulate life at home, which sounds harder than travelling!

Cycling RTW 2016-2018: 722 days, and 35085km ridden according to the bike computer. 24 different countries excluding the UK, including two antipodes – places on opposite sides of the globe.