Category Archives: Bicycle touring

Bicycle touring Sulawesi Tenggara

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Bryan Keith

The search “bicycle touring in sulawesi tenggara” yields only 30 results in Google, not one of which leads to a page where someone actually bicycle toured in Sulawesi Tenggara.  I guess maybe it’s “off-the-beaten-path.”  Given this dearth of information, we didn’t … Continue reading →

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Cycling in UAE: Al Ain to Dubai

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Bryan Keith

The United Arab Emirates isn’t on many folks bicycle touring bucket list.  Nor should it be.  It has all the problems of Oman that I described in my previous Oman posts — traffic, sprawling cities, migrant worker exploitation — but … Continue reading →

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My final week in Oman: finally, fort fatigue?

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Bryan Keith

Stuart and I dropped off Jack at the Muscat airport around midnight for his horribly-timed flight back to Miami via Istanbul.  My flight back to Antalya, however, left from Dubai.  On the way in to meet Jack a month earlier in … Continue reading →

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Oman: The Subcontinent in the desert?

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Bryan Keith

…continued from previous Oman posts. In Oman the scenery didn’t look like anything I’ve seen in India, but culturally it felt like we were riding through the Indian Subcontinent, not the Arabian Peninsula.  It seems like foreigners do all the … Continue reading →

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Escaping the Omani traffic: Wadi Shab and the Salma Plateau

Posted on March 10, 2018 by Bryan Keith

Once Jack and I arrived at the coast at Al-Ashkharah, we reevaluated our plans for Oman, after not enjoying the route we had taken so far.  We knew of good snorkeling in Oman and had brought snorkel gear with us … Continue reading →

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