meet the family

Meet Marc

Marc Maurer is our neighbour and a like-minded friend sharing the same passion, but Marc has turned his dreams into reality by riding his bike to far off lands. Born 81 and grown up in the southern part of Germany we met him first after he moving to Cologne to start his studies in Geography and Asian Science, which brought him and his backpack to Indo-Chinese region on more than one occasion. At a certain point he intended to combine his two passions - travelling and cycling - and cycled from his hometown Cologne to Istanbul.

Obviously such an experience that he elected to ride back home, rather than taking the return flight. When thinking of where to cycle on his second trip an intention was born: he started where he stopped the last time, the idea of "A Journey Beyond“, this time starting in from Istanbul heading to Tehran. 

Leaving his studies for some hand-on work as an exhibition builder he almost started planning the next trip as soon as he returned home. With intermediate smaller journeys here and there (as for example "Land End to John O Goats“ and such) he continued his "A Journey Beyond“ project and reached Kyrgyzstan. So who know's where the next journey will end, but ultimately Marc wants to combine these adventures to eventually make it once round the world.

“Having cycled from Cologne to Istanbul, rather than catch his flight home, Marc decided to turn the bike around and ride back."

But since Marc’s approach to travel by bike is not based on any performance pressure and rather on meeting people and experiencing countrysides no one would ever blame him in case he’d skip a region for a reason or would cycle an area twice if it’s in his deepest interest. As long as he enjoys we will be enjoying his reports, photos and videos shot along the way. For now we will wait with baited breath as to the next journey, starting in Kyrgyzstan, but ending where, we'll have to wait and see.