The journey so far has taken us to the extreme points (by road) of most of the continents. The dream is to use these often obscure locations as a reference point to aim towards. What happens between these points is the journey and therefore more important than the arrival.

Another principle we try to live by, to give more essence to the journey, is that between those points we don't take transport unless our lives are endangered or there is no road to be able to cycle on. A couple of examples are when we took transport through the area of the Darien Gap; an area of road-less jungle & swamps between Panama & Colombia. The other time was in the Sahara desert when the road we were travelling on was going into dangerous territory. We took the iron ore train then walked through an area of landmines to cross into Morocco. From there we weren't allowed to cycle, since it was a military zone. Of course then there are the oceans. Unfortunately the age of cargo ships taking on passengers is almost numbered. It can take months to find transport across the sea. We have to resort to crossing between the Continents by plane. The time becomes important mainly due to the seasons. It would be deadly to try to cross the Sahara during summer or impossible to cross the Amazon Jungle in the wet season.

Some of the statistics of the extremes:

The most southern point of mainland Australia, Wilson's Promontory....
To the most northerly point, Cape York: 7113km
The most northerly point by road in North America Prudhoe Bay....
To the end of route 3 in Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina: 37,162km
From Cape A'Lagulhas South Africa the most southern point of Africa....
To Nord Kapp Norway the most northern point of Western Europe: 36,624km
Total Kilometres for the whole journey so far (August 2007) Emi 115,000km; Steve 141,000km

Countries & some Territories cycled through so far: