Pursuing Mountains, Siem Reap (2026)

18/03/2026

We were shocked that more people don’t see Angkor Wat this way 😳

There are so many cycle paths throughout the park and renting bikes in town are super abundant and cheap. Just make sure to get an early start as exploring temples in the afternoon heat is a challenge 🥵

We did both the small circuit and the grand circuit which totaled to 20-25 miles per day of easy riding!

18/01/2024

After bikepacking across Europe from London to Istanbul there are certain places that really stand out. When it comes to beauty, the alps portion of our trip certainly stands out! We explored parts of the Austrian and Italian alps.

Here are some photos of our time in Italy, including the time in the Dolomites (which are part of the alps). So incredibly beautiful! This whole region also has amazing cycling paths throughout 🙌🏼

One thing to watch out for: the campgrounds are extremely expensive (40-55 euros) 😬 in general we found there were more tourists in this region and therefore we had much less interactions with locals (I think Italy was the only country where we did not receive a random act of kindness from strangers, not that this should be expected ever but it was interesting to note).

We have two videos up on our YouTube channel from our time in the Italian alps! Our next video on Sunday continues our journey into Slovenia marking the second half of our trip! We have so many photos that we will try to share more on here too!

09/10/2023

About us ⬇️

We have a lot of new faces on here so we thought we’d provide some quick facts about us.

👋 We are Liz and Alex. We are a married couple that documents our travel and outdoor-based adventures here and on YouTube.

-We started dating in college and got married super young (20 and 22). While that seems crazy young to us now, in the culture we were raised in, it wasn’t too uncommon.

- We both have our masters degrees. Liz in public health and Alex in analytics and data science.

- We have no kids on purpose for a variety of reasons including that adventure travel has been our priority. That’s not to say we don’t like kids, we adore and are very close to our nephews :)

- We have an array of outdoor adventure based hobbies including backpacking, bikepacking, hiking, scuba diving, rock climbing, and mountaineering.

-Since we have never had an outdoor adventure mentor (our families are not into this type of stuff), and tend to jump into things, we have gotten into lots of messes along the way 🙃. For example, on our first hike ever we got lost on a snow covered mountain and had to build a shelter to survive overnight 😬

- Bikepacking has been a recent hobby that we started in 2020 when we took on 1,000 miles of the great divide mountain bike route as complete beginners. We documented this on our YouTube channel and it’s both embarrassing and funny ✌🏼

- In September 2019 we traveled full time for 6 months on a trip 5 years in the making but had to come home early due to a certain worldwide phenomenon 😷

- We built out a van in 2022 which we live and work in for part of the year.

- We’ve wanted to do a long biking tour abroad for YEARS and are so glad we are finally doing that. It really is a fusion of two things we love - journey style outdoor adventures and off-the-beaten path travel

And that’s a very simplified version of us. Let us know if you have any questions ⬇️

20/06/2023

We successfully climbed Mount Shasta, 14,179 feet (4322 meters)!!! And we honestly did not think we’d make it…

It had been years since we had climbed a more serious mountain. Health, and the pandemic had gotten in the way. We didn’t know if we still had it in us. The night before we kept trying to talk ourselves out of this stupid thing we were about to attempt. But alas in the early morning, we set off to make a summit attempt. The weather was terrible, mostly white out conditions, but we pushed along. We had rocks falling at points, one the size of a grapefruit even hit Alex’s ice axe, just barely missing his legs, but we kept going. We saw several groups turn around, but there was one group ahead of us that we couldn’t see in the white out conditions, but we could hear, so we pushed along. It gave us that little bit of assurance that we were not the only crazy ones! It was tough and steep at points, but we made it!

We will have a new YouTube video on our channel on Thursday documenting this journey!

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