Helen Dainty - Full time global hobo cycling the world on AU$100/week. 5 years in and 58,000 km cycled so far…

<div>Helen in her own words:</div> <div> </div> <div>“Full time global hobo cycling the world on AU$100/week creating vlogs, blogs, and photo’s as I go.</div> <div> </div> <div>On the road in one form or another since 2004. I left the UK with a round-the-world ticket on what should have been my ‘year out’ but never properly returned. </div> <div> </div> <div>Living out of a backpack ever since, I taught English in South Korea, travelling back overland along the Silk Road before emigrating to Australia in 2007 where a travel fundraising job meant I continued to move from place to place every week or two.</div> <div> </div> <div>In Australia I took up bicycle touring and in 2016 set out on an ambitious first bike tour through the outback along the Gibb River Road, Tanami, and Oodnadata tracks. </div> <div> </div> <div>In 2017 I returned to work for a year while training for and running the New York Marathon, before returning to full-time bicycle touring.</div> <div> </div> <div>In spring 2018 I set out into The Beast From The East to ride a loop of the UK coast and down to Sicily and back.</div> <div> </div> <div>In 2019 I rode up the Norwegian coast to the North Cape and back through the Baltic states. </div> <div> </div> <div>In early spring of 2020 I set out to Istanbul getting caught in lockdown in Germany, waiting and changing course as borders closed and reopened, finally arriving in Istanbul a year late in September 2021.</div> <div> </div> <div>Totalling 58,000kms over 5 years so far.. </div> <div> </div> <div>From here the plan is to continue on riding to Africa, via the the Middle East (pandemic & borders permitting!)"</div> <div> </div> <div>New episodes of the Tough Girl Podcast go live every Tuesday at 7am UK time - Hit the subscribe button so you don’t miss out. </div> <div> </div> <div>The Tough Girl Podcast is sponsorship and ad free thanks to the monthly financial support of patrons. </div> <div> </div> <div>Support the mission to increase the amount of female role models in the media. Visit <a hre