"When the urge became impossible to ignore, Sarah Cook bought a touring bike and an all-singing, all-dancing four-season tent, and packed her belongings into 68-litre bike bags. She was 60, and, having rented out her flat in Cumbria, England, set off alone to pedal the Pacific west coast of the US. As she cycled away from Vancouver airport, I was like See you in six months!', Cook says."
"By the time she arrived in La Paz, Bolivia, 111 days later, she knew, this is how I want to live my life. Now 67, she has been itinerant ever since, and has cycled 24,000 miles. Cook wanted to find out, she says, what happened when your life was on the road. I thought something must switch in your head or your emotions"
"Growing up in a Surrey village, Cook traced explorers' routes on to greaseproof paper from her parents' world atlas. The eldest of six, she would lead her siblings down the garden with ingredients for tea, lift a piece of turf with her penknife, and make a campfire. She studied medical sciences at university and worked for a while in a hospital hematology laboratory, but stopped to home school her three daughters and son."
Sarah Cook bought a touring bike, a four-season tent, and packed belongings into 68‑litre bike bags and left at age 60. She rented out her flat in Cumbria and cycled the Pacific west coast of the US, reaching La Paz, Bolivia after 111 days. She adopted an itinerant lifestyle and has cycled 24,000 miles. Highlights include nearly 3,000 miles across Europe, camping beneath giant sequoias, wild camping in the Colombian paramo, and pedalling 2,000 miles of Patagonian coastline to Ushuaia. Growing up in Surrey inspired early exploration. She studied medical sciences, worked in a hematology lab, home‑schooled four children and trained as a mountain leader.
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