In the months December and January 2010-2011, Geert embarked on a solo bicycle tour along the Mekong river in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and back into Vietnam.

“The Geert Escape”
When plagued by a nasty back injury he initially thought his adventures on foot or bike were passé.

But he found he could continue his long journeys on the bike, so he ‘threw’ his bike Stumpjumper on a plane, flew to Ho Chi Minh City in the South of Vietnam, and after 10 minutes of riding he noticed how the injury didn’t affect his riding and that he cycled pain free. He rode from Vietnam into Cambodia, North into Laos and back into Vietnam. This ride was baptised ‘The Geert Escape’. After getting lost on a large island in the Mekong, and having been admitted for exhaustion and blood tests into a hospital in Kratie, in North Cambodia, Geert was impressed to see the dismal circumstances of the very sick Cambodian people around him.

Back home in Adelaide he held a fundraiser and managed to collect funds for the simplest of medical supplies such as syringes, medicine, and blood pressure equipment.

[You can read more about the fundraiser which was aptly named ‘The Geert Escape”, in the ‘About’ section of this website]