Intrepid Global Citizen Podcast

Julianna has been cycling since she was seventeen, and has always had an adventurous heart with a love of travel. Roland has been cycling since the days of stingrays and banana seats, enjoys road trips and far-off places, and a love of film and editing. Together, now retired, they see themselves as bicycle tourists, travelers who who believe that bicycle touring is a comfortable, safe, and pleasur...

In 1978, William Spencer, author of the book "Far Sweeter Than Honey, Searching For Meaning on a Bicycle" cycled from England to India. Along the way, he was thrown from his bicycle while trying to avoid negligent drivers, chewed shirt buttons for water in Afghanistan, and was infected with hepatitis in Pakistan.  Despite all his setbacks he still managed to fast and write letters to fri...

In this episode, three of my coworkers interview me about my adventure travel experiences in South Korea. It started fourteen years ago with a rusty, third-hand bicycle on a freezing winter day when I decided to leave home and put my nonverbal communication and beginner Korean skills to the test. No map, no smart phone, no GPS. I was armed with curiosity and a thirst for the unknown. After that I...

This week's conversation is with a very special couple whose love of nature and openness to change is infectious. Listen as they share priceless wisdom gained from over 300 days of cycling through Europe and the Deep South in The United States.  Debs spent her career running a bike shop in Scarborough, England. For years she met people who were cycle touring with no real plans but to have an...

Home to Guinness World records- the longest single line of moving bicycles at 1,186; and the fastest four-person, twenty four-hour, 1,670 kilometer (1,037 mile) relay, the cycling and adventure travel community in Bangladesh is thriving. In this episode, Fahadul Islam tells us about BD Cyclists, a non-profit social community that aims to promote healthy living and reduce traffic congestion and pol...

Roman Onillion is a photographer, adventurer, YouTuber, and blogger who has been covered in mud on the Pamir Highway in Kyrgyzstan, pushed his bicycle through sandstorms in Mongolia for seven hours while moving a whopping fourteen kilometers, and was accosted for money along the Kazakh border with China by the police only to be taken on a surprise tour of a nearby canyon. He has also raised money...

This episode is an introduction to the podcast and a chance to get personal with the host. George Balarezo, the Intrepid Global Citizen,  is an adventurer, engineer, university lecturer, and writer who is striving to become a better global citizen. Educated as an engineer through books and office research, he had the audacity to leave his corporate job behind and embarked on a new venture as one w...