Seek Travel Ride
Want more adventure in your life? Hear real adventure travel stories and practical insights from people who explore the world in bold and meaningful ways by bike, on foot, and close to home.
Seek Travel Ride is an adventure travel podcast for anyone curious about travel and looking to bring more adventure into their everyday.
Host Bella Molloy chats with adventurers and everyday people about bicycle touring, cycle touring, bikepacking, long-distance cycling, and other human-powered adventures. You’ll also hear slow travel, cultural discovery and micro-adventure stories that show adventure can happen anywhere.
Expect travel stories, helpful advice and practical tips you can use to shape your own adventures, whether you’re dreaming of world travel, planning your first bike travel journey, or starting small with something close to home.
Remember it doesn't need to be epic to be an Adventure!
Episodes
328 episodes
What's It Like to Cycle in Indonesia and Ride to Mount Bromo? | Olly Hargreaves
What's it like to go bikepacking in Indonesia? Olly Hargreaves has sent through his last update all about cycling from Jakarta to Balin starting with a 38 hour ferry ride from Singapore!Olly reckons Java has the steepest roads of his who...
TransAmerica Trail Angel Wes Murray: Hosting Nearly 300 Cyclists in Missouri
Wes Murray has been hosting cyclists on the TransAmerica Trail since 2012 at his home in Houston, Missouri. Since then he's hosted over 300 bike adventurers who have stayed at 'The Shack'. His hospitality and kindness is legendary and now many ...
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway: Bikepacking Tips from Saorsie Pottie
Going on a bike adventure can be a huge deal and perhaps you've found that fear is holding you back from going out there and exploring. This week I'm sharing excerpts from my original interview with Saoirse Pottie, which give insight into how s...
I Do It to Feel Normal. Long Distance Cycling and Beating Cancer with Ash Eagles
This year Ash Eagles won the 1700km TransAtlantic Way which was his first ever ultracycling event. What makes this even more incredible is that it came almost 5 years after surviving a very rare form of bone cancer where doctors warned him he m...
Bikepacking Cork to Cape Town With a Surfboard: James Ryan
Imagine setting off to cycle from Cork in Ireland all the way to Cape Town South Africa. Then picture yourself doing it while towing a surfboard on a trailer! That's exactly what James Ryan has just set off to do!In this episode we are g...
From Bikepacking to Racing Ultras With Poli Berber
Poli Berber started out being fearful of riding her bike in traffic. Then she went on a 10 month tour from Paris to Yereven which ended up being life changing. She returned back to Mexico City and through bikepacking rediscovered he...
The Single Best Moment From a Bikepacking Adventure
If you could relive one moment from your bike adventure what would it be? Earlier this year I hosted a series of live shows in Melbourne featuring previous podcast guests Fergal Guihen, Em Hulbert and David McCourt. This...
Solo Cycling 12,000km From Poland to Vietnam (and Back) Oktawia Van Tienderen
Imagine a bike adventure that takes you from Europe SE Asia and back again. Now imagine doing it solo. That is exactly what Oktawia Van Tienderen did and in this episode she is sharing her experiences of taking a journey on like this as a solo ...
TransAmerica Trail Angel: Your Stories About the Legend
Often the highlights of many bike adventures come from the people you meet along the way. In my recent episode with Becky Gilbert she mentioned being hosted by Wes in Missouri, while making her way across the USA on the TransAmerica Trail. ...
Bikepacking Italy to the Swiss Alps with no plans or itinerary: Daniel Troia
Daniel Troia initially got off a plane in Milan, Italy initially thinking he'd go bikepacking to Slovenia. But then as he set off he decided to change things up completely. He got rid of the entire plan, dumped his itinerary and let strangers h...
Just Go: Beginner Bikepacking Tips From the Seek Travel Ride Community
If you are thinking of taking a bike adventure but find yourself holding back this episode is for you. I put the question out to our instagram Seek Travel Ride Community of 'what's one tip you'd give to someone looking to take their first bike ...
Cycling the TransAmerica Trail: 4,000-Mile Ride Across the USA with Becky Gilbert
Becky Gilbert shares what it was like to cycle from Oregon to Virginia on the TransAmerica Trail. She undertook this adventure with her partner and Ash and all up spent three months cycling coast to coast across the USA. This was t...
Cycling Across Scotland, the Netherlands & Belgium with Brian Sampson
Guest Brian Sampson is currently on a bike adventure connecting up 1000 places to see before you die. In this update he gives us the lowdown on what it's like to go cycling in Scotland, Belgium and the Netherlands. If you are planni...
Solo Bikepacking the Nordics: Finland, Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands with Marcello Pacifici
Guest Marcello Pacifici shares his experiences of bikepacking in some of the most isolated places in the Nordics. Originally from Rome in Italy, Marcello now calls Helsinki home. He got into riding bikes as a cheap way to get around the city, t...
Wild Things Happen on Bike Adventures
What's the wildest thing that's happened to you during a bike adventure? I asked this question and got inundated with responses so this week I'm sharing them with you.Responses range from marriage proposals, dog chases, nudist beac...
Blending Ultra Racing with Bikepacking: Hannah Simon
Hannah Simon has raced ultras in four different continents, but you'd be wrong to assume she is only focused on racing. She also enjoys strapping gear on her bike and riding through new landscapes. This year she chose to comb...
From Bikepacking to Ultra Racing: Anna Ruddiman's El Piri Experience
Considering riding an Ultra? You need to listen to this episode!A few months ago Anna Ruddiman was on the podcast talking about cycling from London to Turkey, and ...
Bikepacking from Alaska to New York: Jimmy Vervoort
Belgium bikepacker Jimmy Vervoort shares his awesome journey riding from Alaska to New York City. This was a trip split into two parts with the first starting in the middle of winter which made for some very cold riding days in Alaska. On...
Cycling to Everest Base Camp: Daragh Cronin's Monsoon Setback in India
Twenty kilometres outside Mumbai, sitting in a half-flooded slum with the rain hammering down,Daragh Cronin had what he calls one of the lowest moments of his life. This week he's filling us in on what happened since his last update during his ...
Could You Spend Two Years Bikepacking? Paula and Juan Pablo
Juan Pablo's first bike trip was a huge solo journey over 16 months. Then he came home to Chile, met Paula, they got married and six weeks after their wedding they both got on bikes and started bikepacking together.. All up they hop...
51 Years Cycling The World: Remembering Heinz Stücke
This week's episode is dedicated to Heinz Stücke, who passed away on July 22 aged 86. Heinz is a legend in the bike travel community, the holder of the world record for the most travelled person in the world. He spent over 51 years cycling to e...
Bike Touring the World with Marielle Jauring (re-visited)
Marielle Jauring has ridden roughly 89,000 kilometres across the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe and Asia since her first tour in 2017.This interview was recorded midway through her current ride from Poland to Sri L...
The Best Countries for a Bike Adventure (According to You)
What's the best country to take a bike adventure? I put that question to the Seek Travel Ride Instagram community, and the answers poured in, from expected favourites to a few genuine curveballs. This episode is dedicated to running through eve...
Cycling 12,000km Through 16 Countries: Germany to Turkey with Rieke Schmees (re-release)
In 2022, German psychologist Rieke Schmees swapped a desk for a bike and cycled 12,000km through 16 countries. This adventure took her from Germany to Turkey, via Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Italy and the Balkans. It was the first type of adventu...
Bikepacking Mongolia: Rob MacLennan on Ultra-Cycling to the Silk Road Mountain Race
Rob MacLennan is back on the pod, this time mid-adventure sharing updates as he bikepacks from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to the start line of the Silk Road Mountain Race in Kyrgyzstan. We learn about how Rob has transitioned from long-d...