The Telegraph is running a diary about a cyclist on a 6,000 mile ride. He's currently in Georgia which is how I found out about him with my Google News update.
This guy is riding from the UK to India and was originally planning on doing so through Iran. With the recent change in the political situation, he's decided that may not be the best idea. So, he's in Georgia now.
Presumably that implies his original plan was to go Turkey/Iran through the narrow border they have.
But where is he going now?
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If you avoid Iran by traveling through Georgia/Azerbaijan... from there you either:
Take the boat across the caspian into Turkmenistan or Kazakhstan
or Ride your bike from Azerbaijan north into Russian to go around the Caspian into Kazakhstan. (Sounds like an easy ride, what do you think?)
But my real question is: where do you go from there to get to India?
If he stuck with Iran, you could arguably hit the Indian Ocean shores and avoid Baluchistan and hope you make it through southern Pakistan before getting into India.
But now that he's avoiding Iran and almost certainly going through the north, he's either riding THROUGH AF/PK. (Yeah, that's a good idea) or approaching India from the Himalayans. (Either through China or Kashmir)
This might be worth following just to see how he gets out of this one.
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