Paula Holmes-Eber Spotlight:
Cycling through Vietnam and Cambodia
Paula to Speak at Traveler, 256 Winslow Way, 7:00 PM, September 25th.
From April-May, 2018, Paula and Lorenz Eber undertook a 900 kilometer, independent cycling tour along the coast of Vietnam from Ho Chin Minh City to Hanoi, ending their journey with a ride through the temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, one of the world’s most extraordinary religious complexes. The Ebers will show pictures and videos of their journey and provide practical advice and tips on traveling through Vietnam and Cambodia today.
Bio: Paula and Lorenz Eber
Paula and Lorenz Eber started their married life together on a bicycle: spending a two month honeymoon pedaling through Holland, Belgium, England and France. Naturally when their daughters Anya and Yvonne came along, they simply threw them in a bike trailer and continued cycling: up and down Puget Sound, along the Oregon Coast and then on a 600 mile cycling and camping trip from Fairbanks to Alaska when the girls were seven and five years old.
After cycling through Alaska, it seemed the only logical trip left was a family bicycle trip around the world. And so, carrying six panniers, two tents and four sleeping bags—their only possessions for 16 months—Paula and Lorenz Eber set off on two tandem bicycles with eleven year old Yvonne, and her thirteen year old sister, Anya. Their goal: to cycle a complete, unbroken circle around the globe for asthma. Surviving an earthquake in Taiwan, drug smugglers in Siberia, and the bite of a seven inch poisonous molokau in Tonga, the family returned to Washington D.C. 480 days, 14,931 kilometers, four continents and 24 countries of cycling and camping around the globe later. They are the first and only family to have circled the world by bicycle.
Over the years Paula has written extensively about cycling with children in both Adventure Cycling and the League of American Bicyclists magazines. The Ebers have just completed a book about their cycling adventures around the world, which they expect to be published in 2019. To learn more go to: www.worldbikeforbreath.org
