Two high-achieving twenty-somethings quit their dream jobs, strapped everything they owned to two bikes, and pedaled into the kind of freedom most of us only fantasize about during a bad Monday meeting. Lauren Geoghegan and Jay Austen weren’t reckless thrill seekers. They were planners, idealists, the type who believed the world was mostly kind. So when their round-the-world cycling trip carried them into the mountains of Tajikistan and straight into the path of an ISIS attack, their story became more than a headline. It became a brutal collision between world views.
I highly recommend William Elliott Hazelgrove’s book Evil on the Roof of the World: A Cycling Trip that Ended in Terror if you want to go even deeper into this story. You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Evil-Roof-World-Cycling-Terror/dp/B0F78H5VST
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🎵 All music in this episode is sourced from Pixabay, with tracks including: Mountain Wind by Siarhei Korbut Peace of Mind – Calm Ambient Music by Clavier-Music Bossa Nova Instrumental 01 by alanajordan Ambient Background by playstarz_music Seaside in Sorrow – Sad and Touching Soft Piano by HarumachiMusic Desert Winds Meditation by NaturesEye Midnight Whispers Creepy Dark Horror Background by TrenoX8 Piano Cinematic by The_Mountain Inspirational Documentary Cinematic Piano by NotAIGenerated
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