Category Archives: USA

A Scotsman, a Swiss man, two Swedes, a Belgian, a Dutch and an English girl walk into a bar.

Sounds like the start of a bad joke.

Leg two of the round the world cycle complete: Orlando, Florida to San Diego, California. All the way across the third biggest country in the world (by square km), powered by nothing but our own two legs. No gas, no petrol, no diesel – it feels pretty good!

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas – but we just had to share this with our friends and family:

WE GOT MARRIED IN VEGAS!

Imagine riding a gym bike in a power shower, with the water as cold as it will go.

Now tilt your head back and stare into the shower head letting the water hit your face, but keeping your eyes open. Keep doing this for around 70 minutes, and you’ll have an idea how it was to cycle between Globe and Superior on Highway 60 in Arizona.

It’s been a while since our last blog – we’ve not been able to write as we’ve been too busy rioting outside Trump Tower…

Not really – we’ve been hammering out miles on the bike. Since we last wrote we’ve covered 936 km, all in Texas, about 90% of which has been in the desert. There was the small matter of the election which occurred somewhere in the middle of that. November 8th really wasn’t our day.

What’s the first thing you think of when someone says Texas? We came up with: Lance Armstrong, Cowboys, George Bush, Longhorn cows. From now on, we’ll probably think of Carol.

It’s everywhere.

In shops, on houses, clothes, walls, in restaurants. A symbol. It’s called the Fleur de Lis. You can see it all across the Southern States.

Isn’t it funny how a chance meeting or conversation can potentially change the whole course of your life?

It happened again at the start of this week.

Cycling out of Orlando airport, one of the first signs we passed, hung up outside a front gate read: “Trespassers will be used for target practice, thieves will be shot on sight.”