Lonely Planet Relay Team
He works with our Chinese partners SDX, owns the popular Pass By Bar in Beijing (motto: Better Travel than Dead), has cycled all over China and, on a recent visit to Australia, covered 70km along Melbourne’s bay side with fellow Tour d’Afrique riders David Else and Tony Wheeler.
Nate lives in California and is the co-author of Volunteer: A Traveler's Guild To Making A Difference Around The World and Puerto Rico, which was researched entirely by the seat of a bike.
Rana is excited to take her urban riding skills to the dirt roads of Tanzania. She is building a bike with (mostly) found parts that she would like to giveaway after her section.
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Ethan Gelber
 United States
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Ethan has been pedaling strong -- and writing about it -- for nearly two
decades. He co-authored LP's Cycling Italy 1 and is currently researching Cycling France 2 and Cycling Australia 2.
Tom is Travel Editor at LP’s London office and is looking forward to fulfilling a long-held ambition to ride a stage of the TDA. His Brompton folding bike won’t be making the journey with him, but he's not going to tell it the harsh truth quite yet.
Martin has toured in Europe, Asia and Australasia. Since settling in
Australia, most trips have featured a child on the back of his bike --
except for Round-the-Bay and the weekly 220km commute.
Scott Kennedy is a LP Author based in Queenstown, New Zealand. He’s a biker, marathon runner and adventure racer. Scott enjoys hardship, dehydration and sunburns and is currently training for the Td’A on an exercise bike in a sauna.
Dave enjoys old Tarzan movies and riding push bikes, meeting adventurous people and not being eaten by wild animals.
Sharif is super excited that he’ll be venturing into the great ancient lands of Egypt and Sudan in just over five months from now! Wow! He says the best part of it all is doing the trip on something he loves doing! Riding his bicycle!
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Fiona Siseman
 Australia
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A stubborn Capricorn, Fiona discovered cycle touring only recently when she decided to cycle through Europe for 5 months. Her motto is 'slow and steady' which should provide ample time for enjoying the scenery in Malawi.
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Mara Vorhees
United States
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Mara has been competing in sprint and Olympic-distance triathlons for
years, but has never ridden a century (100 miles). Now she is going to ride six of them in the course of a week! She can't wait to see if she is as fast as the elephants.
Lonely Planet's founder has always loved bicycles and crossed paths with the Tour D'Afrique (although he was in a Land-Cruiser) in Ethiopia three years ago. The Wheeler bicycle? They're made in Taiwan and are surprisingly popular in southern Africa.
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