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:
“All-destroying sword-blade still
Carried by the wandering fool.
Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade,
Beauty and fool together laid.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“... we have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.”
—Lucy Stone (1818–1893)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.”
—Janet Frame (b. 1924)