They have toured 4 continents, 57 countries and still craving for a cycling trip across Asia in November 2008. Pat and Catherine Patterson at 62 and 48 in 2002 respectively, had begun their “world tour” four years ago. The couple sold their real-estate company and cars, bought a new home and let that up for rent, and gave their furniture to their children. They had set out for a journey “leaving it all behind”.
It was way back in 1985, while on his brief trip to China, that Pat realized the essence of liberty for the first time in his life. At the end of his tour to China, Pat realized the “insanity” of touring foreign countries on bike. Some years later, Pat got married to Catherine, and while helping Pat in compiling his photos from his bicycling trip in China, she proposed for such a trip together.
Pattersons began their trip in 2002, biking from California in the east, transversing United States to reach Greenland, further, they continued through Europe and Russia moving down to Africa, and taking to southern Chile and lastly making their way back to California. The couple could realize at the end of it, the weight of the world was lifted off their shoulders.
