My Round The World ride (inc top blagging at Spa & The Ring)

[Adenauer]

ringweekends said:

Only just seen this thread, you turned up at one of my events - Adenauer's wife was running the Nürburgring track day whilst I spent the entire time doing my hair!

[mackay45]

Just read this thread from start to finish after seeing it mentioned in the Pedal Powered forum. What an achievement!

Based on twitter/instagram it looks like Neil might be a bike tour guide now based in Thailand?

[Craikeybaby]

Guiding on the death road in South America was mentioned in some of his other threads...

[mackay45]

So it was! I'd ready that thread but without knowing of the back story and not having known the link until you pointed it out, ta!

Also answers my Q about whether he still posts on here or not!

[GrantD5]

Well that helped kill a couple hours at work, what a journey, don't know if I could cope sleeping in icy tents and sleeping bags though!

Inspirational

[neilski]

I've only just seen these last few posts from July after seeing that someone had linked to this in the Around the World in 80 Days thread then spent ages re-reading a lot of it and it brought back loads of happy memories.

Yes I do still post on here occasionally and do the odd bit of lurking from time to time when I'm not busy. Since finishing my ride I moved to Thailand to create and run a bike tour out of some friends' hostel in Bangkok, did a three month bike tour of Vietnam, Laos and northern Thailand between December last year and March this year then finished working in Bangkok in May to take a two month break back in the UK and moved to La Paz in July to start a new job as a mountain bike guide on Death Road plus will get trained up on a few other more technical rides while I'm here. Life could be a lot worse I suppose.

[smifffymoto]

No regrets.

Live the dream.

[mattwh]

Wow - just read the whole thread and have nothing but respect for you. LEJOG seems so tame !

If you come back on, how much of the kit you started out with returned to the UK with you ? Did the Hilleberg last the journey ?

Thank you so much for sharing this with PH.