Angus Neaves on bikepacking 9,000 miles from Mongolia to Scotland

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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After finishing high school in his native Australia, Angus Neaves devised the ultimate gap year plan: a 9,000-mile solo bikepacking trip from Mongolia to Scotland. After seven months and 16 countries, he finally completed the journey this week and joined Payson to talk about it. From the hospitality he found in Kazakstan to an impromptu trip to Gravel Worlds in Italy and a detour to Berlin for the museums, Angus found unexpected highlights along the way, in addition to some low points. He was...

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0:00.0	you'd just ride into a town and then people would come up to you and say,
0:02.8	oh, come and stay at our house, like, we've got a little room here for you,
0:06.7	or in Western Kazakhstan where it was getting quite hot,
0:10.0	like people on the highway just stopping randomly,
0:12.8	giving me like two litres of like ice cold water in the middle of the day
0:16.2	when it's like 40 degrees Celsius.
0:18.7	The people there are really amazing,
0:22.6	and they just have this ability to like give and give and give
0:24.9	and like I don't think I would have been
0:26.8	out of survive if it wasn't for the kindness
0:28.7	of strangers.
0:30.0	It's showtime everybody.
0:32.1	Showtime!
0:34.8	You've been living in the dream world,
0:37.0	Neil.
0:38.4	This is the world as it exists today.
0:43.3	Life moves pretty fast.
0:45.7	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:48.3	You could miss it.
0:51.4	Listen, we're talking about practice.
0:54.6	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:56.1	Donnie, you're out of your element.
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