Stephen Allen Bikes the Colorado Trail

It has been over 4 years since Seize the World Foundation founder, Stephen Allen, completed his round the world bicycle tour to raise awareness for epilepsy. In fact, Seize the World was founded as a conduit to inform the world of this tour and inspire others living with epilepsy. In July, Stephen embarked on another inspirational adventure, a 2-week mountain bikepacking tour of the Colorado Trail.

A Thicker Skin

In September of 2009, Seize the World interviewed Deanna Adams just after she completed the Great Divide Mountain Bike Race (GDMBR). Deanna is a vegan athlete from Prescott, Arizona. She also has Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy and suffers from Grand Mal seizures. However, this did not stop her from becoming the youngest woman to complete the race on a fixed gear bicycle or “fixie” at age 20.

Laos

After many weeks of touring, I now find myself, once again, in a place where people drive on the right side of the road.  I had pretty much gotten to the point that I preferred the left side of the road, but I guess it is nice to be back in a more familiar place.  […]

Elephants…Tuk Tuks…Temples…Video…off to Laos

Hello Friends, It is 8p.m. here in Chiang Mai, Thailand.  My Mom, Susan, departed from the airport this morning on her way back to our home in Telluride, CO.   Yes…they have an international airport here.  A big one.  Where 747s land from around Asia.  They take off as well.  It is internationally known.  I saw her […]

Mom in Thailand, Spiders, Chiang Mai

I have been in Thailand for thirteen days.  Those days have been really nice.  My Mother, Susan, is visiting me right now for the next week in Chiang Mai – this has been a fabulous surprise to hav occurred, especially after my father George visited me at the end of July in Cairo.  There are certain […]

Family and Pyramids in Cairo

I am writing on one of my last evenings in Cairo, Egypt.  My father, George, has been here for the past week, which has been fabulous.  I found out that he would arrive about ten days before I did, which made his visit a very nice bonus for when I got here. Since the last […]

The Middle East

After three weeks of pedaling, talking, sleeping, eating, breathing, and doing some other things, I covered the distance from Marmaris, Turkey to Jerusalem, Israel.  For my standards, this was a fast move.  Days in Turkey became increasingly long as I began to make bigger and bigger moves.  I rode through Syria even more quickly than […]

Turkey: Photos

  After a twelve hour ferry ride from Athens to Rhodes and another three hour ferry ride from Rhodes to Marmaris I arrived in Turkey. I have spent the past five days making my way – once again on the bicycle – to the city of Antalya.  Antalya is a large city.  According to the […]

Keffalonia, Greece

Jenine and I have now made our way from Athens west across the Peloponnese to the island of Keffalonia.  The ride to get here has been great, involving some positive aspects and some negative. On the bright side we have enjoyed some delicious food (Greek Salad, Pasta, pitas, kalamaki (meat on a stick), tsatsiki, and […]

Last Day in Athens

It is a warm, sunny Saturday in Athens.  Jenine arrived two days ago, and we are going to be leaving Athens (finally, though sadly as I have made some new friends here) tomorrow morning.  I went out to meet Jenine at the airport here, a 40 minute bus ride from downtown, where she emerged from […]