What It Takes to Bike the Silk Road in 10 Months

Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Here at Traveler, we tend to think that we travel a lot. Like, a lot a lot. But then we meet people who go for the extreme (say, hitting every country in the world, or solo-sailing the Pacific Ocean) and put us to absolute shame. Take Kate Harris, who hopped on a bike with her childhood best friend Mel and pedaled from Istanbul to China, following Marco Polo's Silk Road. Because traveling by camel caravan seemed a little too out there.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Women Who Travel, a podcast from Condoness Traveler.
0:07.0	I'm Lale Aricoglu and with me is my co-host, Meredith Carey.
0:11.0	Hello!
0:12.0	And today we're super excited to be joined by, I don't know, we could call her a super traveler,
0:18.0	a super explorer.
0:20.0	She puts both of us to shame, really.
0:21.9	I think, like, basically, everyone.
0:25.3	Kate Harris is a writer and explorer with, as she likes to describe it,
0:29.4	a knack for getting lost.
0:31.1	She's written for publications including The Wars and Canadian Geographic,
0:35.0	and has been published in numerous essay collections,
0:37.3	including The Heralded Best American Travel Writing. Her recent memoir, and Canadian Geographic and has been published in numerous essay collections, including
0:37.7	The Heralded Best American Travel Writing.
0:40.9	Her recent memoir, Lands of Lost Borders, takes us on a 10-month odyssey along the Silk
0:45.7	Road by bicycle.
0:47.0	Yes, bicycle.
0:50.0	Starting in Istanbul, she passed through countries like Georgia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, China, Tibet, and Nepal.
0:56.4	And in all, she biked for 10,000 kilometers across 10 countries.
1:00.6	So the original question that I have is just a bike?
1:06.0	You decided to bike?
1:08.8	Well, I was inspired by sort of indirectly or inversely inspired by Marco Polo.
1:15.0	That was sort of my root inspiration.
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