2010 Silk Road East Expedition
In April 2010 led a ten week commercial expedition through Europe, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and China. The 13,000-mile (21,000 km) trip ended in July 2010, with only one rider sent home due to altitude sickness en route to Everest Base Camp.
Read more about this topic: Kevin And Julia Sanders (motorcyclists)
Famous quotes containing the words silk, road, east and/or expedition:
“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.
“How the cold creeps as the fire dies at length
How drifts are piled,
Dooryard and road ungraded,
Till even the comforting barn grows far away,
And my heart owns a doubt
Whether ‘tis in us to arise with day
And save ourselves unaided.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into dry land; and the waters were divided. The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 14:21,22.
“It is a sort of ranger service. Arnold’s expedition is a daily experience with these settlers. They can prove that they were out at almost any time; and I think that all the first generation of them deserve a pension more than any that went to the Mexican war.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)