That'll do.After almost 16,000km and 13 months on the road we have arrived home in the Hutt Valley of New Zealand.We arrived in Wellington Harbour on a beautiful day and formed a peloton of friends and family to ride 30km to Baden's sister's house in Upper Hutt to signal the end of our journey.It has been a weird ol' month since we've been back. Ba…

We’re almost a stone’s throw away from home in this week’s How Are You? Where Are You? podcast.A lot of road has been traveled between Christchurch and the top of the South Island and we’ve been blessed to meet some brilliant people as well as enjoying outstanding autumn weather.We thought we had left all the beautiful scenery behind when we left t…

The West Coast of New Zealand's South Island covers the distance between the two major cities in the North Island, Wellington and Auckland, but this part of the country only has 33,000 thousand residents and bugger all cell phone coverage.This week's How Are You? Where Are You? podcast follows our journey up the coast and introduces some of the peo…

Like the hopeful miners of the 1860s New Zealand Gold Rush, we too struck the precious metal while cycling through central Otago.In this 40th episode of the How Are You? Where Are You podcast we follow in the footsteps, or even the cycle tracks, of the kiwi pioneers along the mighty Clutha Mata-Au River where we find signs of the bygone days.What t…

We became members of a cycle touring gang in this week's How Are You? Where Are You? podcast.As we headed into the remote Catlins region of southern New Zealand we were joined by a couple of good buggers from the States.Brian and Nick taught us a great deal and we had a brilliant time riding through some of the most stunning landscapes these isles …

We've made it to New Zealand and without trying to sound deliberately cheesy, it's blowing our minds.Our journey so far has seen us arriving in Queenstown in the South Island (Te Waipounamu) and riding out into the Central Otago wilderness.We visited the magic of Fiordland and pedalled into the land of good buggers in Southland.This was recorded th…

Apologies in advance for a navel gazing episode of the How Are You? Where Are You? podcast.We’re finding it difficult to make sense of our trip and what we have learned. It’s also not easy to try and explain why we have decided to cut our journey short but we give it all a crack for you here.It’s strange to think that were are about to start cycle …

We have found the end of our road in Latin America.This trip will be London to Lima.After an agonising decision, we have come to the conclusion that a year is enough and in this week's How Are You? Where Are You? podcast we discuss why our bikes will travel in a plane home from Peru's capital.The cycling journey isn't over however. We still plan to…

We have left the desert behind and have climbed back into the mountains following the River Santa to Huaraz in Peru's famous Cordillera Blanca. It's the world's biggest mountain range outside of the Himalayas. Seems we can't get enough of the Andes.You get a bit of a cycle touring warts and all How Are You? Where Are You? podcast this week. Our sto…

We have been hammering it through Northern Peru. How did we get so fit? It seems like a lifetime since we were plodding through France trying to get used to this whole cycle touring thing if you consider a life to be 10 months.Check out the map on our website howareyouwhereareyou.com to see our effort over the first 11 days of February. We talk abo…

We say goodbye to the Andes and hello to the the hot and steamy coast in this week's How Are You? Where Are You? podcast.The Andes gave us one of our most traumatic days of our trip and then one of the most magical. All in the space of two days.We have seen some jaw-dropping sights and try our best to turn the vision into words. Luckily we have som…

We have climbed to the second highest capital city in the world. Somehow by arriving in Quito we have acclimatised to become human mountain goats with some strange ability to breathe at 4000 metres.Quito took a while to capture our hearts but a walk around the city's historic centre and a visit to the home of Oswaldo Guayasamin, one of Ecuador's mo…

It felt like Colombia didn't want to let go of us and we certainly didn't want to let go of it.We arrived in Pasto on New Year's Day, only 100km from the border with Ecuador. We thought we would maybe rest a couple of days and go on our merry way but Colombia had more kindness and adventure in store for us yet.We ended up staying a week in Pasto (a…

Welcome to our special edition #Festive500 podcast.The Festive500 is the brainchild of the cycle clothing designer Rapha and is designed to get people riding their bikes between Christmas Eve and New Years Eve at a time when most of us are keen to get on the turps and stuff ourselves full of mince pies.The challenge is to ride 500 kilometres in eig…

It's all about Climbing, Coffee and Christmas in the latest Colombian instalment of the How Are You? Where Are You? podcast.We've scaled some pretty tough hills during our time here but they were all made to look like midgets next to the giant Alto de Letras. We bring you the story of how we inched up the world's longest road climb.Alto de Letras s…

We come to you this week from Boggers a.k.a Bogota, the capital of Colombia and the third-highest capital city on this green earth. (If you don't count Bhutan's capital Thimphu, which we ignored in this podcast)It was a long but beautiful slog to haul ourselves up here and what a huge and disorganised city we found at the top of the climb. However,…

Seriously, if you are planning to come to Colombia with the sole aim of snorting cheap crap up your nose, you are massively missing out. It's a cycle touring paradise and in this week's How Are You? Where Are You? podcast we team up with our new buddies Shaggy and Lenin to discover all the joys of the beautiful Antioquian countryside.After eight mo…

We've just gone and cycled across Central America! How about that? We look back on the best of times in this week's How Are You? Where Are You? podcast.We talk about how to cross the Darien Gap between Central and South America and why we opted to sail in a yacht through the San Blas Islands captained by a maniacal Italian instead of transforming o…

Baden has a run in with the Panamanian health system and his marriage comes under strain in this How Are You? Where Are You? podcast.We're in Panama, slogging our guts out pedal stroke by pedal stroke to reach the nation's capital and the end of the Central American part of our journey.On the way, we get lots of honks and toots, we meet an interest…

Don't ya just love conquering a fear? Shelley's phobia was a bit of a weird one: the cute, furry, slow-moving, completely unthreatening mammals that are sloths. Tune into the How Are You? Where Are You? podcast to see if Shell could overcome her very own fear factor in Costa Rica.Our bestie Terry the Tent has had a rough ol' time of late. We fill y…

Sorry for the delay in bringing you episode 23. We've been on the road pedalling our legs off riding across eastern El Salvador, before zipping through the south of Honduras and travelling the length of Nicaragua to our recording place of San Juan del Sur, down in the south of this interesting land on the Pacific Coast.We are joined by another spec…

If you read the news, you could be mistaken for thinking that if you go to El Salvador, you are going to get murdered. Well, it turns out, that you are more likely to have a great time, see beautiful things and meet lots of interesting people. What a boring non-click baity article that would be.On this week's How Are You? Where Are You? podcast we …

"Why would you ever go to Guatemala City?" A common question we've had from other tourists who have been warned off Guatemala's big smoke. Their doubts made us want to ride there even more, and we ended up pleasantly surprised as you'll hear in this week's How Are You? Where Are You? podcast.We also ride the local 'Chicken' buses into the highlands…

We recorded this in Cobán, high up in the Alta Verapaz region of the Guatemala's interior. We've been learning a lot about Mayan culture and a lot about the capability of our legs to ride our heavy touring bikes high up into the sky. New Zealanders have been fascinated by this Central American country ever since Nurse Carrie Burton uttered the line…

After a period of gallivanting, we are finally back on the bikes and rediscovering the joys of cycle touring. We have the country and people of Belize to thank for this. Sure it's stinking hot but we are pedalling with coping strategies in place and they seem to be working fine. We visit the amazing zoo, the prison and ride the glorious Hummingbird…

We're having a holiday from our holiday in this edition of the How Are You? Where Are You? podcast. Our bikes are safely stored in our beloved Chetumal (Chets) while we flew to check out a bit more of this amazing country. We traveled to Mexico City and then Oaxaca before washing up on the Pacific coast in Puerto Escondido. We're joined by a specia…

We mention the word "hot" quite a bit in this podcast because that's what it's been here on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. We've been checking out some significant Mayan sites and having fun but the heat ended up being a bit too much for Baden.

Our stint off the bike continues with a holiday in Cuba. It's our third time in the country so we discuss our observations as the socialist paradise begins to open up to change. We also speak with Shelley's parents who joined us on tour for the month of July and what went wrong with Baden's cycling plans for Cuba?…

Recorded under a shady tree in Retiro Park in Madrid, we take some time to fill you in on our preparations for Central and South America. We visited Cenas a Pedal in Lisbon to get help with our bikes and we did some last minute shopping in Madrid for supplies before our flight to Cuba. We also discuss our route, goals for the trip and thank some pe…

We found an oasis during the Madrid heatwave in the cool waters of our hosts' plastic paddling pool, so we recorded the podcast there. This time we review our whole European trip. We pick out some bests and worsts, count up kilometres travelled and other statistics and discuss some of the things we've been reflecting on since we finished in Lisbon.…

Finally a whole week off the bikes! Shelley spends it jetting back to London while Baden stays behind in Lisbon feeding his face and listening to stories. We wrap up our final week in Portugal.

We made it to Lisbon and the end of the European leg of our cycle tour. We celebrate with red wine, sardines and fado. On the way we check out the King's playground in Sintra and dine out on breakfast for What's in the Pot?

Sun, sand and sardines in the 11th episode of the How Are You? Where Are You? podcast recorded in Peniche on the western tip of Portugal. After riding down the Atlantic coast from Porto, we discuss our small diversion in-land to the historic university of Coimbra and take you out on the town for a sardine dinner.…

We have a special edition for our 10th How Are You? Where Are You? podcast. We take you on a cycling tour of the Douro River from Pocinho to Porto.

Episode 9 of the How Are You? Where Are You? podcast comes to you from the banks of the Rio Tamega in Northern Portugal. We discuss the changing dynamics of our trip with more time on our hands and What's in the Pot is brought to you from a creepy campground.

In this episode of the How are you? Where are you? podcast we focus on what it means to finish the 800km Camino de Santiago. Recorded in Santiago de Compostela we capture the moment we officially finish, are joined by a special guest and whip up another treat on the camp stove.

Welcome to the seventh episode of the How Are You? Where Are You? podcast recorded in central Leon in Spain and including an audio diary of a day cycling the Camino de Santiago.

Welcome to the sixth episode of the How Are You? Where are You? podcast recorded in a campground at St Jean-Pied-de-Port in south-west France as we prepare to follow the Camino trail to Santiago de Compostela.

Here's our latest podcast from the banks of the Dordogne River in Bergerac, France.

Welcome to the fourth episode of the How Are You Where Are You Podcast from somewhere between Troyes and Auxerre in France on our bicycle journey home to New Zealand.

Welcome to our third How are you? Where are you? podcast, an audio travelogue describing our cycle tour from London, through Europe and Latin America, to New Zealand. This episode was recorded on the border of Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium.

Welcome to our second How are you? Where are you? podcast, an audio travelogue describing our cycle tour from London, through Europe and Latin America, to New Zealand. Recorded on the ferry from the UK to The Netherlands as we embark on out adventure!

Welcome to the first episode of the How Are You? Where Are You? podcast as we prepare to embark on a big cycling adventure through Europe and Latin America.