For many riders, traveling by motorcycle with another rider can really add to an experience.

Someone that can maybe see things through similar eyes, be amazed and revel in what you do,

and have your back as well.

Someone to pick up your bike or help you pick up your bike

and you to help them,

someone to work things through with.

But it's a balance.

And finding the right balance between independence and collaboration is a give and take.

You sacrifice some for them and they for you.

And hopefully you meet somewhere in the middle.

But for some riders, that balance is difficult to meet.

Difficult to give up what to them

fundamentally defines their trip.

And those riders tend to prefer to ride solo.

After almost 20 years of traveling, Helen Lloyd's expectations and views on our travel style have certainly evolved.

Helen has ridden their bicycle from the UK. on her travel style have certainly evolved.

Helen has ridden her bicycle from the UK to Cape Town, South Africa.

She wrote a horse through Kurzic stand,

pack-rafted in Nicaragua, cycled north and central America.

She's ridden a bicycle in Siberia in the winter.

Much of it was done solo all these trips.

When Helen decided to go back to Africa,

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