Join PEPY and Conservation Alliance at the for a fundraiser and happy hour event hosted by KEEN Footwear. If you are at the Outdoor Retailer event in Salt Lake City next week, meet at the KEEN booth #32301 on Friday, January 23 from 4:30-6:00pm. Free drinks, live music, a raffle, …
by Lucky Herath
I am totally blown away after meeting all the riders! It has been so much fun matching faces and in-life personalities to names and emails I’ve been receiving these past few months. The entire office, on top of their regular work, has been planning, organizing and running errands to make this trip run smoothly and for that I am very thankful. I’ve been looking forward to this for months and it is finally here and I feel like our entire group is rockin’ it!
And we’re off!!! Just a few days into our 3-week journey and we’ve already created many bonds and memories. We are a 16-strong group of riders hailing from Canada, America, Japan, Australia, Ireland, England and Cambodia and with 448 collective years of life experience. Already a tight-knit team, we are excited for the challenges and adventures that await us as we pedal through Cambodia’s countryside.
Our trip started in Siem Reap visiting the magnificent Angkor temples with the PEPY Ride School students. Their awed faces and bright eyes upon viewing this source of immense national pride amazed and inspired us as much as the temples themselves!
This morning five smiling ladies and one lucky (literally) bloke set off on the Southern Cambodian Cycling Adventure. They’ll be pedaling down to the coastal towns of Kep, Kampot, and Sihanoukville, stopping along the way to teach environmental lessons at two schools and learn more about some development organizations in …
