The author has undertaken cycling tours covering four continents, 36 countries and 80,000 miles. This is a collection of descriptions of the landscape through which she cycled and the people she met, interspersed with tales of her adventures. Her encounters range from Saharan locust invasions to tree-climbing goats, and a customs official who wanted to stop her leaving India because "you are making me a very fine wife". In Nepal she met a team of Frenchmen running from Paris to China, and a cyclist on his way from one Olympic Games to the next, whilst her view of post-Ceausescu Romania, a national suffering and starving, affected her both physically and mentally.