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Hi! I'm Carla and I created this site to share my
Bicycle Odyssey photos from the travel memoir about my year-long adventure bicycling around the world in 1991 - 1992. Please check the link to my blog https://carlafountain.home.blog/ also.
Be sure to go to the end of this slide presentation for links to recipes and music for each country we traveled in on this odyssey.!
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Photo Gallery - England and Scotland
Photo Gallery —France, Spain, and the North
Photo Gallery—Kenya and Uganda
India
Nepal
Thailand
Vietanam
Bali
Recipes
Music Pre-Trip and in Scotland
"Roam if you want to" by the B52's played in my head as we prepared for the trip and set out.
"I hear a wind
whistling air,
Whispering in my ear..
Oh girl dancing down those dirty and dusty trails.
Take a hip to hip rocket through the wilderness,
Around the world the trip begins with a kiss
Roam if you want to,
Roam around the world,
Roam if you want to,
Without wings, without wheels.
Roam if you want to,
Without anything but the love we feel."
Robert Burns
The Highlands could be mournful. "Ae Fond Kiss" by Robert Burns captures the mood.
"Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, alas, for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee."
The Military Tattoo at Stirling
Bagpipes and kilts!.
Music in France
Edith Piaf - La Vie en Rose
The classics never die.
Grace Jones - La Vie en Rose
Classics never die!
Josephine Baker
J'ai Deux Amours
On dit qu'au delà des mers
Là-bas sous le ciel clair
Il existe une cité
Au séjour enchanté
Et sous les grands arbres noirs
Chaque soir
Vers elle s'en va tout mon espoir
J'ai deux amours
Mon pays et Paris
Music in Kenya and Uganda
This is the traditional "Hakuna Matata" sung in Kenya. We sang this with Ali Hippy's familiy in Lamu.
The Afrigo Band's hit "Born in Africa" followed us on our bike ride through Uganda.
Music in India
Ravi Shankar - The type of music we had expected to hear in India.
"Ilu Ilu" is the music we actually heard... everyday for two and a half months!
It still rings in my head...
Music in Thailand
This was the hit on the ariwaves in Thailand in the spring of 1992. The group is Carabao. Thai rock
Music in Vietnam
Vietnam
Haunting Dan Bau for the curious.
Traditional Vietnamese Instruments
Gamelan Music in Bali
We had never heard anything like this. We enjoyed gamelan concerts many nights in Bali.
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