My name is Sebrand. I’m an Industrial Design graduate from Carnegie Mellon University. My brother Marnix just got back from teaching english in Indonesia for two years. Before I go off to build things at Apple and before he goes off to study international relations we wanted to get a better understanding of the cultures and countries that our jobs will affect. China is the number one country making the rapid growth of the tech industry possible. So we decided to start there.

We are both highly concerned with sustainability and the obvious best choice for transport after getting off the plane was bikes. To make sure we won’t ever be limited by road conditions, we are both riding Surely 29+ bikes.

We are still in the planning progress, but the current route starts in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, hang west around the Gobi desert down to Beijing, travel south to Hong Kong to get our visas extended, and then head east and cross the border into Laos at which point we will see how much of our 5 months we have left. Time permitting we hope to find a farm or community center that we can volunteer at.