Outer Mongolia Mountain Bike Trek
Donación protegida
In completing this independent mountain bike trek in Mongolia, I would like to support also support Orphanages in Ulaanbaatar.
Orphanage donation projects will be funded with Gofundme.
WHAT ARE THE COSTS?
I have self-funded HimalayasX2011, MongoliaX2012 and Totherocktour2013 and MongoliaX2014. All shared in public media. Searching Google for Totherocktour or Brian Perich will show you some of the public records out there about me. The total cost was about $20,000.
ABOUT ME
My name is Brian. I am 41. A teacher in South Korea, a father and outdoor adventure seeker. I am mechanically inclined, have worked in automotive restorations and titanium welding. I am known for BIKES. This is the hobby that has stretched 36 years of my life.
For 10 years I haved lived and taught English as a Foreign Language in South Korea and China. I spent summer vacations learning and exploring in the outdoor classroom.
EDUCATION THROUGH EXPEDITION
1.Connect with internarional communities on bikes.
2.Explore new terrain and locales.
3.Use mountain bikes as transport.
4.Make new friendships.
5.Inspire others-go beyond borders.
6.Overcome challenges and grow.
7.Lead by example through treks.
8.Reduce fear and raise knowledge.
9.Reuse equipment, reduce waste.
10.Share experience and journeys.
WHO DO I LINK WITH?
Some amazing not-for-profit foundations:
IDEAS Intestinal Disease Education weneedideas.ca
Health Awareness Society for communities with IBD.
The Ted Simon Foundation for inspiring global travel writing.
Education Through Expeditions
eteteachers.org
WHO IS PAYING FOR EXPLORING?
I complete these treks and microadventures on my own (at my own expense - flights, equipment, lodging, photography or electronics to document the travel, not just to travel in itself), I have been doing #microadventures for over 20 years without sponsors, but I was forced to stop for 10 years raising a family, and covering education loans, house payments, etc... Overland travel is enjoyable, using a bicycle to do it is the way to cross international borders, in my blog, I will explain to you how I do it). No myths, I am not commercially sponsored by any of the foundations I represent.
AGE AND BARRIERS TO TRAVEL?
Being over 40 with children can become a barrier, so I work around it and cooperate with my family. I pick up extra work where available to offset some of the expenses so far, my work supports the effort almost entirely. I have had contributions to equipment of 2012, the titanium Lynskey Performance frame came at a Pro discount, it wasn't free, neither was most of my gear.
Traveling on work leave isn't cheap, although traveling by bicycle affords the opportunity to lay your head where you end the days, on the roadside, in a tent, in your sleeping bag, under the starry skies. This is my first experience with Gofundme.
WHY TRAVEL OVERLAND?
I use my travel experiences from the past 20 years of experience to make a safe route into maps, cross 100-160km distances daily, and wild camp in fields where I find myself each night. Friends in university explained this to me in 1993. Ride until dark, don't stop in cities, find a field and that's where you sleep.
It takes some‚ skill to mountain bike long distance and a passport to cross international borders, but there is no secret in doing it, you just look at maps, draw lines, and follow your intended route forward for days.
Some cyclists can ride 200 mile days, others take their time crossing 50-60 miles. It's up to you to determine your speed and pace on a muli-day microadventure or long-distance bicycle tour. I also read blogs, blogs, blogs - crazyguyonabike.com for journals.
It's safe when you know what to expect, how to interact with people, be friendly, be careful, and trust your instincts. Don't expect more than smiles and water from people you meet. You will have something to offer, friendship, stories, paper maps to browse over with them, body language, and it's understood - traveling by bicycle is something peculiar and exciting. It's easy to meet people, exchange information, make new friends, and experiences places you will see and pass through.
The simple life of traveling can become serendipity: Where I am exploring, life is made simple. I set daily goals for distances, mark the maps, and open my journal as a guestbook when I want to keep in touch with someone I've met along the way.
Please ~ Share, Care and Gofundme to Support this project.
Photo from expeditions. WWF World Wildlife Federation who were surveying Marmot populations on my route across 2500km of Outer Mongolia in 2012. I climbed (ascent) the equivalent to two Everest summits from sea level in 2012. It took a year to recover with medical attention requiring physiotherapy (6 months), acupuncture (2 weeks), chiropractic treatment (2 months) and steroids for inflammation (2 months). I have a torn bicep tendon from a fall that wasn't operated on, the MRI set me back another $1000 on top of the rest of the treatments.
HOW/WHEN DO I DO THESE TRIPS?
I take work leave from the university each summer and in 2012, I pay for the trip myself, there are no major sponsors, the blog is sharing what I am willing without any payments or objects for sale.
WHY DID I DO IT?
This mountain bike trek gave insight and cultural connection while I intersected with Nomadic Mongolians, both Khalk and Kazakh herders and their flocks of sheep, goats, horse, yaks or camels. I love Nomadic cultures, their sustainable lifestyles, their kindess and strength to endure hardships, Mongolians or Tibetans, these are two examples of hard working nations, they live and survive outside the box of Westernization and Industrialization, their environments are dry desert plateaus or grassland Steppe across most of northern Mongolia, the southern half is dry desert, although livestock and Nomadic herders can also survive there. While exploring the country by mountain bike, I dined on sheep head, drank milk from all their livestock, and exchanged gifts with locals on my route across. The route remains unpublished, but I would like to share a book benefiting Mongolian foundations supporting their sustainable living and funds for emergencies that occur seasonally due to drought or ZUD winters.
I did not want to profit from publishing my exploits commercially, and kept most of the expedition private for these reasons. I suffered a great deal to go there, but one day, would like to share those stories for the benefit of the Mongolian Nomads that helped my journey.This was the most difficult journey I have ever taken, but it was filled with challenges and gifts of life itself. I strongly recommend Mongolia to others, a land of amazing people, animals and wild terrain. Don't expect pavement or a highway!
Not all journeys are equal, not all travel is safe and sound. Although successfully completed in 2012, the‚ MongoliaX mountain bike expedition across the Steppe of Outer Mongolia injured my body in some unexpected ways. I sustained a torn bicep tendon, herniated femur head from rotated pelvis, spondilosis and muscle torsion and joint compressions. I required a M.R.I. scans, internal joint scopes, joint steroid therapies, acupuncture treatment, physiotherapy and chiropractic therapy. My body was torn apart.
On return to Korea, I went back to teaching and started an intensive physiotherapy program lasting the next 10 months. I was not greeted with sponsors at the airport, I took the bus back to my home alone. I had close friends support with nominal donations to help with the flight across Mongolia once I completed, and ran out of personal funds (in hand, in my banking account in Korea). It was a self-funded dream trip of a lifetime that inspired other cyclists to go there.
If you want my route information for Mongolia (or wish to ask me), make a $250 donation to KIVA and support this expedition.
Videos I made to share the experience of mountain bike travel are posted on Vimeo.com
SEE YOU OUT ON THE ROAD! (:
Orphanage donation projects will be funded with Gofundme.
WHAT ARE THE COSTS?
I have self-funded HimalayasX2011, MongoliaX2012 and Totherocktour2013 and MongoliaX2014. All shared in public media. Searching Google for Totherocktour or Brian Perich will show you some of the public records out there about me. The total cost was about $20,000.
ABOUT ME
My name is Brian. I am 41. A teacher in South Korea, a father and outdoor adventure seeker. I am mechanically inclined, have worked in automotive restorations and titanium welding. I am known for BIKES. This is the hobby that has stretched 36 years of my life.
For 10 years I haved lived and taught English as a Foreign Language in South Korea and China. I spent summer vacations learning and exploring in the outdoor classroom.
EDUCATION THROUGH EXPEDITION
1.Connect with internarional communities on bikes.
2.Explore new terrain and locales.
3.Use mountain bikes as transport.
4.Make new friendships.
5.Inspire others-go beyond borders.
6.Overcome challenges and grow.
7.Lead by example through treks.
8.Reduce fear and raise knowledge.
9.Reuse equipment, reduce waste.
10.Share experience and journeys.
WHO DO I LINK WITH?
Some amazing not-for-profit foundations:
IDEAS Intestinal Disease Education weneedideas.ca
Health Awareness Society for communities with IBD.
The Ted Simon Foundation for inspiring global travel writing.
Education Through Expeditions
eteteachers.org
WHO IS PAYING FOR EXPLORING?
I complete these treks and microadventures on my own (at my own expense - flights, equipment, lodging, photography or electronics to document the travel, not just to travel in itself), I have been doing #microadventures for over 20 years without sponsors, but I was forced to stop for 10 years raising a family, and covering education loans, house payments, etc... Overland travel is enjoyable, using a bicycle to do it is the way to cross international borders, in my blog, I will explain to you how I do it). No myths, I am not commercially sponsored by any of the foundations I represent.
AGE AND BARRIERS TO TRAVEL?
Being over 40 with children can become a barrier, so I work around it and cooperate with my family. I pick up extra work where available to offset some of the expenses so far, my work supports the effort almost entirely. I have had contributions to equipment of 2012, the titanium Lynskey Performance frame came at a Pro discount, it wasn't free, neither was most of my gear.
Traveling on work leave isn't cheap, although traveling by bicycle affords the opportunity to lay your head where you end the days, on the roadside, in a tent, in your sleeping bag, under the starry skies. This is my first experience with Gofundme.
WHY TRAVEL OVERLAND?
I use my travel experiences from the past 20 years of experience to make a safe route into maps, cross 100-160km distances daily, and wild camp in fields where I find myself each night. Friends in university explained this to me in 1993. Ride until dark, don't stop in cities, find a field and that's where you sleep.
It takes some‚ skill to mountain bike long distance and a passport to cross international borders, but there is no secret in doing it, you just look at maps, draw lines, and follow your intended route forward for days.
Some cyclists can ride 200 mile days, others take their time crossing 50-60 miles. It's up to you to determine your speed and pace on a muli-day microadventure or long-distance bicycle tour. I also read blogs, blogs, blogs - crazyguyonabike.com for journals.
It's safe when you know what to expect, how to interact with people, be friendly, be careful, and trust your instincts. Don't expect more than smiles and water from people you meet. You will have something to offer, friendship, stories, paper maps to browse over with them, body language, and it's understood - traveling by bicycle is something peculiar and exciting. It's easy to meet people, exchange information, make new friends, and experiences places you will see and pass through.
The simple life of traveling can become serendipity: Where I am exploring, life is made simple. I set daily goals for distances, mark the maps, and open my journal as a guestbook when I want to keep in touch with someone I've met along the way.
Please ~ Share, Care and Gofundme to Support this project.
Photo from expeditions. WWF World Wildlife Federation who were surveying Marmot populations on my route across 2500km of Outer Mongolia in 2012. I climbed (ascent) the equivalent to two Everest summits from sea level in 2012. It took a year to recover with medical attention requiring physiotherapy (6 months), acupuncture (2 weeks), chiropractic treatment (2 months) and steroids for inflammation (2 months). I have a torn bicep tendon from a fall that wasn't operated on, the MRI set me back another $1000 on top of the rest of the treatments.
HOW/WHEN DO I DO THESE TRIPS?
I take work leave from the university each summer and in 2012, I pay for the trip myself, there are no major sponsors, the blog is sharing what I am willing without any payments or objects for sale.
WHY DID I DO IT?
This mountain bike trek gave insight and cultural connection while I intersected with Nomadic Mongolians, both Khalk and Kazakh herders and their flocks of sheep, goats, horse, yaks or camels. I love Nomadic cultures, their sustainable lifestyles, their kindess and strength to endure hardships, Mongolians or Tibetans, these are two examples of hard working nations, they live and survive outside the box of Westernization and Industrialization, their environments are dry desert plateaus or grassland Steppe across most of northern Mongolia, the southern half is dry desert, although livestock and Nomadic herders can also survive there. While exploring the country by mountain bike, I dined on sheep head, drank milk from all their livestock, and exchanged gifts with locals on my route across. The route remains unpublished, but I would like to share a book benefiting Mongolian foundations supporting their sustainable living and funds for emergencies that occur seasonally due to drought or ZUD winters.
I did not want to profit from publishing my exploits commercially, and kept most of the expedition private for these reasons. I suffered a great deal to go there, but one day, would like to share those stories for the benefit of the Mongolian Nomads that helped my journey.This was the most difficult journey I have ever taken, but it was filled with challenges and gifts of life itself. I strongly recommend Mongolia to others, a land of amazing people, animals and wild terrain. Don't expect pavement or a highway!
Not all journeys are equal, not all travel is safe and sound. Although successfully completed in 2012, the‚ MongoliaX mountain bike expedition across the Steppe of Outer Mongolia injured my body in some unexpected ways. I sustained a torn bicep tendon, herniated femur head from rotated pelvis, spondilosis and muscle torsion and joint compressions. I required a M.R.I. scans, internal joint scopes, joint steroid therapies, acupuncture treatment, physiotherapy and chiropractic therapy. My body was torn apart.
On return to Korea, I went back to teaching and started an intensive physiotherapy program lasting the next 10 months. I was not greeted with sponsors at the airport, I took the bus back to my home alone. I had close friends support with nominal donations to help with the flight across Mongolia once I completed, and ran out of personal funds (in hand, in my banking account in Korea). It was a self-funded dream trip of a lifetime that inspired other cyclists to go there.
If you want my route information for Mongolia (or wish to ask me), make a $250 donation to KIVA and support this expedition.
Videos I made to share the experience of mountain bike travel are posted on Vimeo.com
SEE YOU OUT ON THE ROAD! (:
Organizador
Brian Perić
Organizador
Troy, MI
