A cousin of mine has been doing this the other way around. She is riding a bicycle home to Australia from London.

She made it across Europe and Russia, all the way to the Chinese border before Covid-19 hit and the Chinese wouldn't permit her to enter, so she has backed tracked to Tbilisi to wait it out before continuing.

Is her name Lauren O’Bryan? Because your story reminded me of a similar story in an ABC article [1] profiling ppl stuck overseas with the pandemic.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-23/coronavirus-pandemic-...

Indeed

Tbilisi is a great little cozy place to stay put for a while. They did well to contain covid cases.

You’ll probably enjoy “First Overland” [1], it’s a great travel story. There was an expedition in 2019 sort of recreating it[2] with one of the original vehicles and characters.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/336877.First_Overland?fr... [2] https://www.lastoverland.com/

Depends which direction you go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Across_the_World_(series_... was good, aside from the winners. Series 2 was better.

maybe if you just stayed on the train the whole time but the great thing about trains is there's another one tomorrow!