Klaus and I have kept in touch since our trip more than fifteen years ago, including FaceTiming and texting on WhatsApp. A few years after circumnavigating the globe, he rode from the northern tip of Alaska to the southern tip of South America. He’s taken a lot of other trips as well, all of which can be found on his website:  bike wanderlust and polarsteps. 

I’m really excited (!), because for the first time since 2008, I'm going to be seeing him in person, in Germany, during my current bike trip. He's training for the NorthCape 4000, a 4,000 kilometer, self-supported ride from Turin, Italy, to the North Cape in Norway. It's nothing like he's ever done before, and he considers it his "midlife crisis." He's pushing sixty years old, but even so will be averaging around 125 miles a day for a couple of weeks. He told me that before he started training he'd only ever ridden 125 miles one time.

[klaus]

I still have no idea whether Ari and Erin completed their trip. They only have two posts on their blog, and none after I met them. I do have their last names and googled them when I started posting this journal on Cycleblaze. They appear to have done well for themselves, and I've considered contacting them to see if they actually finished.

Joe and Robin? Also, no idea.

Paul, Hewes, and Susan are likely still riding, but I didn't keep in touch with them.