This week’s episode has a Eurasian lynx attacking a cycle tourist through his tent wall and three lions calling to each other around a wild camp in Tanzania, so yeah, it’s a wildlife one.
It all started with an email from a previous guest, Robert Reynolds, where he shared a frightening experience when a Eurasian lynx tried to attack him in the night while he was inside his tent!
It sent me back through the archives to my chat with Steph Devery, a kick-ass Aussie whose bike adventure took her right across Europe and down through Africa. Steph tells the story of sitting in the far corner of a campground in Uganda when a whole family of gorillas climbed into the trees right in front of her. She followed that up when she recalled a night wild camping in Tanzania when she woke at 3am to lions on every side of her tent, with a couple of millimetres of nylon between her and them.
I also put the call out on Instagram for your own wildlife stories from the bike, and you came through. I share a few of mine as well, like riding over snakes on the bike paths in Canberra and a sleepless night of cowbells outside a shepherd’s hut in the Pyrenees. Then there’s the mule at the top of the Col du Soulor that nibbled my handlebars and disconnected my brakes right before the descent.
Episode 200 of Seek Travel Ride is coming up in a few weeks, and a few of you have asked if someone could turn the tables and interview me. If you’ve got a question you’d like me to answer, tap the “Send a message or voice note to the show” link in these show notes. You can use the same link to send me your own bike travel stories, and I’ll read them out in future episodes.
Robert Reynolds’ episode
Steph Devery’s episode:
Send a message or voice note to the show. I read every one, and some might make it onto a midweek episode
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