What Can Take 18 Months to Fly Will Take 18 Months to Cycle

August 6, 2004 -- On Saturday, August 28th, 2004 Tania Lo from Vancouver, BC will take her very first breaths at 4000m above sea level. As she glides onto the runway of a town high in the Andean Mountain Range, where air is so thin, tying her shoelace will feel like she is attempting Mt. Kilimanjaro, she will be greeted by her cycling team-mate: Gwendal Castellan of the Antipodes Expedition who set off from the tip of South America with their bicycles earlier this year. The Expedition Team is headed to the most northern Canadian end of the road: Inuvik, expecting to arrive late next summer. What can take 18 hrs to travel by plane will take 18 months to travel by bicycle.

Since embarking from the far south, the team has experienced the humbling winds of Patagonia, creatively expressed the 8-steps of the tango in Buenos Aires, shared a traffic jam with some 16 million inhabitants of Sao Paulo and on Sunday, sadly mourned with the people of Asuncion. This 23 thousand km journey will be the springboard to raise awareness of the vast, yet intimate connections that link people, place and culture throughout the Americas.

The Expedition Team is aiming to inspire imagination. Their project is looking to engage all people in experiencing the journey with them through a variety of media, in English, French and Spanish, such as the "Expedition" travel log email subscription, website, the "Crank Log" on-line challenge and documentary film.

The Antipodes Expedition Project is primarily personally funded by the participants. They have received donations in kind from local small businesses: The Bike Box, Silicon Cowboys, The Brickhouse Bistro, Victoria Florist, Perry + Associates Landscape Architects, The Bike Doctor, Arvon Cycles, Stormfront BC and numerous generous individuals. The Antipodes Expedition offers a variety of sponsorship opportunities and welcomes volunteers.

"Dreams cannot be attained if you have never dreamt them." - Tania Lo

For more information please contact:
Tania Lo

THE ANTIPODES EXPEDITION:
Adventure Education inspiration
#409-1688 East 4th Avenue
Vancouver, BC,
Canada, V5N 1J8
604.787.9577
tania@antipodes-expeditions.com
http://www.antipodes-expeditions.com





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