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It’s here! After 3 years of having very vague plans to ride across Canada the time had finally come! You’d think after that long, it would all go pretty smoothly right? No, the start was a massive pain in the sensitive delicate rectum region.

We had subjected ourselves...

We caught up with part time beer connoisseur and full time cycling wizard/world explorer Mike Cowgill to talk about travelling and his favourite mode of transport, the bicycle. 

So you and Kelly have decided to cycle around the world. How did this come about?

As you know...

You like travelling right? Of course you do, you’re on ballsouttraveller.com! You’re a cool kid. Have you ever considered travelling the world by bicycle? It’s cheap, easy and you get to see a side of the countries you’re in that you will never experience in a tour bus...

After an extremely easy and pleasant border crossing from Uzbekistan we were both super excited to be in our third Stan! Kyrgyzstan had been one of the places I’d been hanging out to see the most, described by some as ‘The Switzerland of Central Asia’ I couldn’t wait t...

PART ONE: Gently slipping into Stan.

It was finally time to enter that weird collection of countries known as the ‘Stans’! We’d opted to exit Iran into Turkmenistan, as it seemed like the ‘easy’ option....well easy compared to getting a dodgy unreliable ferry to Kazakh...

SALAM FROM IRAN! FRIENDLY FOLK, TASTY FOOD AND A SWEATY TENT.

Kelly made some final adjustments to her new best buddy the ‘hijab’ (head scarf that she was legally required to wear in public) and I swapped my disgustingly revealing ‘man tights’ for a respectable pair of...

So we'd finally rode our way out of Europe...ok the last bit was on a ferry but that's not important and it's also not cheating...jerk. Decided to catch a ferry from Chios in Greece to Cesme in turkey's southwest basically so we could avoid riding our bikes through the...

1000kms done and the 'training period' was over! 

We were excited to reach Croatia after a lovely night napping on the floor of the ferry from Ancona to Split and I was keen to gobble down a gigantic slice of greasy pizza as I had fond memories of munching my own w...

So after a few months living comfortably with all the food and luxury you’d expect to come with working and living in French ski chalets, we decided to do something slightly less comfortable….ride over 10,000km on a pair of cheap bikes with no training, experience and...

So when I left Perth in April 2013 I had intended to try and blog every week or so of my travels…1 week / 6 months, same thing pretty much right?

Since my last blog I have; studied Spanish in Guatemala, returned to Mexico for mas cerveza, island hopped in the Caribbean...