Frieder Wolfart

After riding with TDA one and a half time the Silkroad, the Magical Madagaskar and the Himalaya Tour it's time for the next one to South Korea an Japan. For me Korea and Japan are totally unknown countries and it's time to change that. I am looking forward to meet some old friends again and to find some new ones.

David Houghton

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the bicycle in 2017, I’ll be taking 200 bicycle rides. Twenty-six of those rides will be in Madagascar.

Michel Savoie

This will be my eighth trip with TDA. I like to travel on a bike with other cyclists like me.

Catherine Hanauer

Bicycle and adventure enthusiast. This has been on the bucket list for far too long

Justin Steel

Love Cycling. Love Africa. Tired of London..... .....so looking forward to joining up with TDA and fellow cyclists, to explore Madagascar (or maybe just a small part of it, in my case)

Annegrete Warrer

Starting doing my first TDA trip back in 2011 and doing quite some more along the years I am so happy to be back there after a far too long Corona pause. First time cycling with you in Europe is exciting - a bit more comfortable than my third world camping expeditions.. Fits me really well! And about time to learn the more charming stretches of Germany after pendling between Austria (where I live) and Denmark (where I come from) for over 40 years. This will be wonderfull: to meet you all and doing a full supported tour again!

Fiona Craig

Re-discovered cycling in 2012. Self guided cycle tour in Europe in 2014. TDA - North American Epic in 2015. TDA - Magical Madagascar in 2017 Haven't ridden much for a few years so looking forward to getting back on the bike. Time poor, so unfortunately only doing Great Ocean Road.

JANICE FLEMING

I love to travel. I love to cycle. My ex & I biked 8,000 km across Canada for our honeymoon in 1979. I have not done any touring since. I thought I should start with something small but Madagascar called me.

Walter Ott

I am 73, live in Switzerland and work voluntarily for the public energy commission of my home town and as elderly expert in climate and energy policy issues in Switzerlad. Besides cycling and biking I like hiking, jogging and skiing. With Lilo my partner, I participate in the care of our three grandchildren (5, 78 10 years old) whenever our daughter and her husband have need for it to match job and family needs. I know TDA from the TdA-Madagascar tour in 2017. Now I look forward to the Journey to the East 2 to get to know South Korea and Japan.

Erwin Attenberger

Hi, I´m Erwin, already 69, retired. My first long tour was TDA 2014, where I went from Khartoum to Nairobi and on my own through Uganda, back to Kenia and from there down to Southafrica, Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique. Meantime I´ve been on several TDA-Tours including South America, Silk Route and Trans-Himalaya. Looking forward to meet you on the next tour with TDA.

Peye Vlot

Since 1990 living and working ( dental surgeon ) in Muscat ( Sultanate of Oman ).

Jean Bernier

Hi, my name is Jean. I grew up in the beautiful town of Québec city. I have been very active since my young age. Physical education teacher for 32 years; now retired. That's my second experience with the Tour d'Afrique: In 2011, I participated in the four months challenging T.D.A.: very proud of my E.F.I. (evrey f... inches) Countries visited on bike: Canada: coast to coast. Vancouver to Inuvik ( Arctic: on the Dempster highway.) Africa: Cairo to Cape Town. India. See you all.

Shaik Baba

Baba is a maestro in the art of cycle maintenance. He has close to 20 years of experience in the industry along with 10 years of travelling the length and breath of the country on cycle trips and camps. India is a highly diversified country with many languages. With five spoken languages under his belt, Baba is an asset to have on the team. Baba is a very friendly team person and ever willing to help & contribute in all aspects.

Emily Currie

“‘Happiness is only real when shared’: I think this counts for a whole spectrum of experiences and emotions—pain, hardship, excitement, joy, for instance—and explains why sharing an adventure or journey with a group makes it so very real!”

Who would have thought that growing up on a farm and a career in rural healthcare would prepare me for a job like my job at TDA? I always had the desire to travel and even though I thought working here would be too good to actually come true when I sent in my job application, here I am, six tours and 28 countries later. I’ve learned more about the world and myself then I ever expected.

With so many incredible memories—and so much food shared, so many friends made along the way—it will take me years to process everything I’ve experienced courtesy of TDA. Highlights of my travels so far include finishing the North American Epic (NAE) in Mexico City on the Day of the Dead, cycling Central Asia’s Pamir Highway, Abdul’s pilaf in the parking lot, Colombia, pan con chicharron, Patagonia, a massive thunder storm in Zambia, Hami melon, Madagascar, Samarkand, walnut and honey spread on fresh bread and topped with whipped yak cream, eaten in a warm yurt… and the list goes on! It’s amazing to realize that everything I experience with TDA will have an impact on my life long after these adventures are over.

One adventure I don’t expect to have again is the one I had in Mexico, when we discovered Hurricane Patricia was heading right straight at us. Monitoring the storm’s progress through the night—from stage 4 to stage 5—seemed so unreal. By 5:00 a.m., CNN was calling Patricia the strongest hurricane ever measured on planet earth. A few hours later, we loaded all bikes, riders, kit and crew onto an extra van and bus … and took off, tails between our legs, because Patricia was shaping up to be a beast! By nightfall we were safe and sound in the heart of tequila country, and, as Patricia lost most of her fury at landfall, the party at our lodgings ramped up.

There are so many wonderful aspects to working with TDA but key amongst them are travelling with purpose, meeting people from all over—and the food!

Johannes Hamunyela

How I got to be a cyclist Hi my name is Johannes Hamunyela, well known as “Jo-Joe”en I am 1,62 height,24years of age, it all started off as a joke clearly remember the year of 2008. By then I was 15 years of age. In my grade 8 in the city of Namibian well known as Windhoek. I was always so curious on owning my own bike as I always use to see most of my friends riding not allowing me to share with me simply because I take too long to return. Likely for me my secondary school get sponsored with bikes and the school started working out to those who do good for the school where I got to own one for myself too. So we started bragging on who’s faster than who we would go to the high ways. “the western bypass” to race amongst ourselves until we decided to actually join up for a competition “Race” where I got to win my first Amazing race the NEDBANK CYCLE CHALLENGE 35km under P.A.Y Physically Active Youth so I got to be introduced to P.A.Y which is an after school program where I would always come and do my school work and where we did some different sports activities’ so those of us that loved cycling joined and we get to be registered in races and we made it more fun by competing each other. There it goes the more you win the more you want to keep winning as I grow. So I got to be selected in the national team where I am till now, I got to travel to different countries either with my team or the national team to represent the country. And we would mostly bring back either medals or jersey’s as time passes so do i get to ride different bikes for different teams too. Where by so bikes sometimes I get to be invited alone for races to other countries. Like Japan, South Africa. I as well got to be doing training camps. E.g. the UCI camps which most of the races and places I visited I consider as achievements. I really feel like I have a lot to tell when it comes to my life history. As came from a really struggling family and with me cycling helps me provide a little income to my family. Where I can. It’s one of the reasons why I take cycling serious. I was born and raised by a single mother unemployed. I have 3 three brothers and a sister. I am my mum’s second born of the family. Where my younger brothers love seeing me ride my bike and I wish I could get them their own bikes but it really impossible as cycling in my country is not really recognized that much. So the little price money I get I have to assist my mother. With buying food and pay my little brother pre-primary school. I really feel sad sometimes when I see them look at me. I am rated as one of Namibia’s top cyclist and I am glad and happy, I feel proud of myself.

Brad Davis

Australian 25-year-old journalism graduate whose only priority is getting out and seeing as much of the world as possible! I'm passionate about travelling, socialising, and writing (usually about travelling and socialising).

Bill Wilson

I am looking forward to another challenging and adventurous tour with TDA, my 14th.. I retired eleven years ago, after more than 35 years prosecuting criminal cases for the Ontario government, and spend the bulk of my time cycling, golfing, reading and travelling. It will be great to get together with some old and new friends.

Jacqueline Nel

"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle." Ernest Hemingway

Rae Simpson

The Odyssey will be the twelfth TDA trip for me and my wife Ursula and Valhalla will be number 13. We're looking forward to more fabulous inches, reunions with friends from previous TDA trips, and meeting new friends.

Steven Pade

I live in the United States on the West coast in Burlingame, California just south of San Francisco. I'm a retired software engineer that specialized in medical applications. I love to travel. I will go anywhere anytime. This is my third TDA tour. I cycled the Orient Express in 2013 and Magical Madagascar in 2017. Cycling is my passion. I am proud of the fact that I bicycle more miles per year then I ride or idrive a car. I love the freedom of traveling on a bicycle. Traveling by bicycle your only concern is your health, your bicycle, and experiencing the immediate world around you. Im looking forward to meeting you in India and experiencing the wonder of the Himalaya Mountains with you.

Ursula Simpson

I am a retired IT specialist / database analyst. Enjoying life in Squamish, on Canada's West coast. Either hiking, biking, or skiing. Having fun with my two grandsons and one grand daughter or hanging out with friends. My husband Rae and I have participated in 11 TdA tours mainly in either the Oceania, African or Asian continents. Last year was our first tour with TdA in Europe riding in the Viva Italia. Now I am looking forward to venturing out to European countries I have not been before.

Yanez Novoa

A long time ago, I had a ten minute conversation on the beach with Steve who had been on a TDA tour through Africa. I didn’t know it then but it planted a thought in my head that would soon change the course of my life.

It seemed that everything I had done before had in some way prepared me for this. A life in hospitality and a few years at sea - from some grand establishments to some very inhospitable vessels and anything in-between.

There were a variety of less stimulating occupations I had explored before I landed at TDA. I think this is what has kept me here for so long, the almost overwhelming stimulation that one gets from daily life on tour, which is miles apart from my quiet country life in South Africa.

That, and the other people. There is always such a variety of people from all walks of life and from all over the world that I would otherwise not have met.

Emily Currie

“‘Happiness is only real when shared’: I think this counts for a whole spectrum of experiences and emotions—pain, hardship, excitement, joy, for instance—and explains why sharing an adventure or journey with a group makes it so very real!”

Who would have thought that growing up on a farm and a career in rural healthcare would prepare me for a job like my job at TDA? I always had the desire to travel and even though I thought working here would be too good to actually come true when I sent in my job application, here I am, six tours and 28 countries later. I’ve learned more about the world and myself then I ever expected.

With so many incredible memories—and so much food shared, so many friends made along the way—it will take me years to process everything I’ve experienced courtesy of TDA. Highlights of my travels so far include finishing the North American Epic (NAE) in Mexico City on the Day of the Dead, cycling Central Asia’s Pamir Highway, Abdul’s pilaf in the parking lot, Colombia, pan con chicharron, Patagonia, a massive thunder storm in Zambia, Hami melon, Madagascar, Samarkand, walnut and honey spread on fresh bread and topped with whipped yak cream, eaten in a warm yurt… and the list goes on! It’s amazing to realize that everything I experience with TDA will have an impact on my life long after these adventures are over.

One adventure I don’t expect to have again is the one I had in Mexico, when we discovered Hurricane Patricia was heading right straight at us. Monitoring the storm’s progress through the night—from stage 4 to stage 5—seemed so unreal. By 5:00 a.m., CNN was calling Patricia the strongest hurricane ever measured on planet earth. A few hours later, we loaded all bikes, riders, kit and crew onto an extra van and bus … and took off, tails between our legs, because Patricia was shaping up to be a beast! By nightfall we were safe and sound in the heart of tequila country, and, as Patricia lost most of her fury at landfall, the party at our lodgings ramped up.

There are so many wonderful aspects to working with TDA but key amongst them are travelling with purpose, meeting people from all over—and the food!

Shaik Baba

Baba is a maestro in the art of cycle maintenance. He has close to 20 years of experience in the industry along with 10 years of travelling the length and breath of the country on cycle trips and camps. India is a highly diversified country with many languages. With five spoken languages under his belt, Baba is an asset to have on the team. Baba is a very friendly team person and ever willing to help & contribute in all aspects.

Mark Wambui

Mark Wambui is a Storyteller. I enjoy tackling new adventures that test my endurance and commitment because through each of those moments I learn a little bit more about myself.

Jill Cohen

Hi Everyone! Really looking forward to joining Bamboo Road 2022 as your Tour Medic. Saddle sores happen--I'm here to help, and we'll get through it. :) A bit about me: I've been an ER Nurse for 20 years, and now I do travel medicine and remote primary care. I love running amok outdoors on a bike, a snowboard, a boat, or my own two feet. Colorado is home base. I'm curious about the world, so I go on lots of expeditions, explorations, journeys, and trips. If you ask "Hey wanna come visit me in Siberia," I am that person who will show up on your doorstep. This is more or less how I started working with TDA. My last tour was Magical Madagascar in 2019, and I'm super excited to do another. Ok, see y'all soon!

Dehon Ninon Cedric Ainarime

Born and live in Madagascar I worked as Tour guide in Madagascar since 2012 I started as local support for TDA on the Magical Madagascar 2017 and after that i am so lucky to became one of the TDA staff member until now. "While you have the opportunity to do such thing,do it, because there will be a time where you wanna do it but you can't do it anymore" My next trip will be the TDA 2025 and the Magical Madagascar 2025 I look forward to meeting you all

Henry Gold

Founder, TDA Global Cycling

Niels van Dongen

Rita Tellerman

Hi! My name is Rita and I am a retired Public Health Nutritionist living in New York City. I can’t wait for the next TDA adventure. .

Jeanine Hartnett

This will be my seventh TDA trip. I retired from a banking career in New York in 2016. I’ve done many other long distance cycling trips, including across the US in 2017.

Charlene Cebryk

I love the outdoors, hiking, golf, camping, cycling, yoga and travelling. First TDA trip was Madagascar and now I'm "hooked"! As the 2020 South America I was booked on was Covid cancelled, I'm glad to have the chance to be able to give another trip a go now.

Sonia Simard

Jane Hartwell

I have wanted to travel to Madagascar for over 20 years, and am really excited to do so via bicycle! I really believe you see the world from different perspective from a bike. This will be my first time on a bicycle tour. I'm looking forward to meeting and riding with everyone else. I don't have any (non-work related) social media links!

Julie Hunter

I’m a Kiwi living in the U.K. I got bitten by the cycling bug in 2014. with my kiwi riding buddy we’ve been doing independent cycling and camping trips in Spain, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and this year Sicily. Madagascar is an exciting location, will be my first trip without loaded panniers, looking forward to meeting like minded people and seeing the Lemurs.

Ruth Storm

Joining the Tour d’Afrique in 2007 was the beginning of my love of cycle touring. Since, I’ve cycled independently in Europe, New Zealand, Middle East, North America, TDA Silk Road 2016, TDA Madagascar 2019 ,TDA Himalayas 2019 and North American Epic in 2022. I also sail, trek, climb and ski long distances and remotely. Looking forward to exploring with like-minded friends!

Freddie Kennedy

Becky Lewis

I live in Steamboat Springs, CO. I do lots of outside activities in this mountain town. I do a lot of volunteer work.

EVAN KENLEY

I have the wanderlust. What better way to do it than by bike? I have traveled extensively and recently did the SAE and Silk Route. What fun and challenging trips. I am hitting that sweet spot in age when the time, energy and desire are there to challenge myself to new adventures. I look forward to sharing this challenging experience with my fellow adventurers.

James Bowen

I am a plump 64 year old recently retired barrister who should know better

Ellen Kurland

Looking forward to cycling and exploring someplace I don’t know anything about.

Hugh Green

29- Mechanical Engineer Pirelli - Ready for another TDA Adventure...

Alan Knight

I look forward to meeting and riding with all of you. This will be my third tour with TDA. I survived Cairo to Cape Town in 2013 and Madagascar in 2019. I hope to survive the Bamboo Road as well – and not get lost too many times. I retired some years ago and currently live in Cairo. My wife. Liz Tayler, will join me.

Steve Caithness

I'm looking forward to this trip. I cycled Madagascar 2019 and was new to cycling long distances when I started that, and loved the experience. I've been pretty active all my life, playing sports, fishing and diving, and especially enjoyed travelling to Truk Lagoon in 2011 and 2013 diving shipwrecks. So I am looking forward to a new challenge and enjoy meeting new people from different cultures and with different ways of life.

Tom Green

Amy Jenkins

I am so excited to join this ride! I am married and have 2 adult children, their spouses and a 14 year old grandson, all of whom are the light of my life! In addition to biking, I love everything outdoors including skiing, snowshoeing and am a Special Olympics Coach. Because I am retired, I spend my time volunteering for Hospice, am on the board for a youth empowerment organization and therapy animal program. Life is grand and I look forward to this wonderful adventure with all of you!

Liz Crago

There are so many interesting places to travel to, and I can't think of any better way to travel through anywhere, than by bike. I enjoy the challenge it brings and I look forward to going to the more out of the way locations. I enjoy travel, and I love cycling so am looking forward to combining them both again on this trip. My first TDA trip was Madagascar in 2019, I did the Trans-Caucasus in 2022, then the last two sections of the South America Epic in 2024. I am looking forward to another trip with TDA. The Silk Road has always inspired me, and does daunt me at the same time, but I look forward to experiencing what it has to offer. In the meantime I look forward to the Hippy Trail for the cultural intrigue it is sure to bring.

Stephen Owen

I have been cycling since I was in school, chasing buses across town to school. Now, at 60, I have stepped up cycling in the last 12 years with weekend rides and endurance rides of 300/500km in 24 hours. My wisdom/body is now telling me that multi-day riding is more fun. More recently, I cycled across the Atlas Mountains in North Africa, Sri Lanka, and TDA Madagascar 2019, then Cairo to Cape Town for an extra dose in 2023. This trip will be exciting and push me to the limits and beyond. TDA trips recharge my batteries for a few years, and this trip is long overdue and will scratch the itch again. Once I've sat down at the end of the day with coffee in hand, I always have a smile on my face as I consider how lucky I am.

Ethan Weil

An adventure loving guy from Colorado with a passion for traveling, landscapes, cultures, music, and of course cycling! I live for the long lasting memories, friendships, lessons and accomplishments on each an every adventure! Excited for this next journey!

Shaik Baba

Baba is a maestro in the art of cycle maintenance. He has close to 20 years of experience in the industry along with 10 years of travelling the length and breath of the country on cycle trips and camps. India is a highly diversified country with many languages. With five spoken languages under his belt, Baba is an asset to have on the team. Baba is a very friendly team person and ever willing to help & contribute in all aspects.

Yanez Novoa

A long time ago, I had a ten minute conversation on the beach with Steve who had been on a TDA tour through Africa. I didn’t know it then but it planted a thought in my head that would soon change the course of my life.

It seemed that everything I had done before had in some way prepared me for this. A life in hospitality and a few years at sea - from some grand establishments to some very inhospitable vessels and anything in-between.

There were a variety of less stimulating occupations I had explored before I landed at TDA. I think this is what has kept me here for so long, the almost overwhelming stimulation that one gets from daily life on tour, which is miles apart from my quiet country life in South Africa.

That, and the other people. There is always such a variety of people from all walks of life and from all over the world that I would otherwise not have met.

Mitchell Kadelbach

Something of a British Canadian mongrel, raised in Toronto and currently awaiting judgement day in the UK's Southwest. I first cut my teeth as a chef in Toronto's fast-paced restaurant scene, specialising in Italian and Mexican cuisine. But really grew in to my own, after I started traveling, seeing drawing connections, conjuring up my own fusions, and getting to grips with real french cuisine in France. In 2018, I completed the Silk Route tour with TDA as the tour chef. and then returned to the region in 2022 on TDA's Trans-Caucuses. Working for TDA is truly a dream come true, as I never stop savouring the opportunity, overland across continent, tasting cuisine, drinking in the sights and sounds, learning languages and laughing with locals. I hope to engaged more openly with my travels by, recording and photographing the outlandish and irregular natural and cultural communities, eventually capitalising on my journalism undergrad.

Dehon Ninon Cedric Ainarime

Born and live in Madagascar I worked as Tour guide in Madagascar since 2012 I started as local support for TDA on the Magical Madagascar 2017 and after that i am so lucky to became one of the TDA staff member until now. "While you have the opportunity to do such thing,do it, because there will be a time where you wanna do it but you can't do it anymore" My next trip will be the TDA 2025 and the Magical Madagascar 2025 I look forward to meeting you all

Mara Scallon

Jim FOWLER

I'm a nomad and spend as much time as possible traveling. With TDA I've done the Tour d'Afrique, the South American Epic, Magical Madagascar and the Orient Express. I’ve become a TDA junkie and am signed up for lots more trips. Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones on the next tour!

Maureen Lanuke

Hi. My name is Maureen, and I am passionate about bicycle touring and anything to do with bicycles. I had to abort on the Hippie Trail in 2025, but I successfully completed the amazing new Tea Route tour in 2026. and am excited to be exploring more of the middle east and part of China. I have cycled the Orient Express, Canada 150, Madagascar, part of the Hippie Trail, and the Tea Route trips with TDA, and have participated in, or led many bike tours through Canada, the States, France, Italy, New Zealand, and Australia - both supported and self-support, and am hoping to be able to do many more rides on my bucket list while the mind and the body are still willing and able! I'm looking forward to meeting my fellow adventurers on this unique adventure!

marcus ezekiel

I live in London and enjoy road cycling, walking and mountains. I am very much looking forward to meeting everyone. Marcus

David Pennington

FriedlyDrifter

Corinne Pennington

Coffee first, then a few written pages, followed by breakfast before starting the day's ride. I am thankful to my dad, who took my training wheels off, pushing me forward with momentum and freedom I've never forgotten. I am grateful to be on yet another riding tour with my partner, Rod, and to enjoy the immersive experience of riding, eating leisurely at the lunch truck, and sitting under a few bamboo trees before peddling to the finish, where a cool, refreshing drink always awaits. Alumni 2011 India, Madagascar 2023. Morocco 2024, Japan 2025 and excited to join TDA and fellow riders in Hanoi for the 2026 Bamboo Road adventure!

Rod Pennington

Hi there fellow adventure travellers, looking forward to sharing this experience with all of you....let's go!

Robert (Bob) Cheek

Ex- journalist, newspaper editor, author, Australian rules footballer, politician and gym chain founder. Didn't take up cycling until my 70s. Slow but I get there.

David Dennis

Eleanor Patterson

Rode the Ruta Maya tour in 2015 and loved it. Was planning on doing the first Magical Madagascar Tour in 2019 but ended up doing the last 2 sections of West Africa en Velo in 2019 which was fantastic and allowed me and my partner to catch up with a number of Ruta Maya riders who had signed up for the tour, and to meet new friends. Covid along with a change in jobs put the brakes on riding the 2021 Magical Madagascar Tour, but we finally got to Madagascar in 2023, which wildly exceeded expectations.

Constance Grill

I like to explore new places, cultures, people and foods whether on foot, on horseback or bicycle!

Trixie Wagner

I live and work in Switzerland. After having survived Ruta Maya, parts of the Tour d'Afrique, West Africa and Madagascar, I am looking forward to the next cycling challenge!

Elias (Eli) Baron

I'm now retired and live in Plano Texas. Since I retired I have been doing one or more long distance bicycle rides each year. I did the Viva Italia Ride in 2019 and it was a very special experience. This year I did a self guided self supported ride in the Sierra Blanca in Spain, in Greece from Athens to Thesalonniki, a bicycle ride in Mongolia and a bicycle ride in Maine. I'm looking forward to ride in 2023 The Hippie Trail and Madagascar with TDA.

Jürgen Zeller

Hi, I'm Jürgen and I live in Würzburg, Germany. I am 60 years old and have had many years of experience traveling in europe, asia and central america. I travelled by bike in many countries alone or in small groups of two or three riders.

David Kiser

Greg Roberts

keen to get out there.....

Peye Vlot

Since 1990 living and working ( dental surgeon ) in Muscat ( Sultanate of Oman ).

Toni-Anne Pease

I am determined to live life to the fullest, riding for the adventure - the chaos and the calm - whatever's waiting around the next corner and whoever shows up in it.