Dave’s New Adventure: Sundrenched on Two Wheels

For Immediate Release
New book captures 3729 mile solo voyage across South America…. proving greener way to travel, without a drop of gas – on a bike.

On 16 December 2007, local adventurer David Nghiem arrived in Buenos
Aires, the capital of Argentina, after pedalling approximately 6000
kilometers (3729 miles), between Lima, the capital of Peru, Curitiba,
the capital of the state of Parana, Brazil, and Buenos Aires. Nghiem has written a 440 page book about his amazing journey. Jackfruit: A Bicycle Quest Through Latin America, which is now available from Booklocker.com. His hope; to inspire others to live a broader life.

From the high Andean mountains of South America, to the low tropical
jungles of Central America, adventurer David Nghiem takes the reader
through a soul searching exploration of the depth of human intuition as
he tracks down ancient symbols and mysteries. He surveys the effects of
globalization south of the border, enduring loneliness, dehydration,
high altitude sickness, crocodiles, and gun shots as he faces his
greatest challenge – surviving the journey.

So why did he choose to do it on a bicycle? “To cross a country or
continent in a motorized vehicle doesn’t require that much effort, and
you miss a lot of the experience because it goes by so quickly. There’s
also the factor of high oil prices, global warming, environmental
degradation, and foreign oil dependency. But to power your self through
numerous challenges like mountains, deserts, and jungles with nothing
more than your muscles, heart, wits, and spirit, displays the unlimited
potential of the human being.”

This was his second major bike expedition. In his first, in
2001, he cycled through ten countries for 300 days in two routes. The
first, for 180 days was through Peru and Bolivia, and the second for 120
days was through all of Central America, and ended in Chetumal, Mexico,
in the Yucutan Peninsula.

David Nghiem is an adventurer, explorer, and educator located in Cherry Hill, NJ. He’s an American of vietnamese descent. You can order Jackfruit at Booklocker.com or at your local bookstore, and you can read more about it at http://davesnewadventure.com. You can contact him at davesnewadventure [at] yahoo.com.

David E.X.N. Nghiem

Email is: davesnewadventure at yahoo.com

http://davesnewadventure.com

With a 6000 km South America voyage, adventurer proves there is a better way to travel: on a bike.

Cherry Hill, New Jersey, 02 January 2008

On 16 December 2007, David E.X.N. Nghiem arrived in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, after pedalling approximately 6000 kilometers (3729 miles), between Lima, the capital of Peru, Curitiba, the capital of the state of Parana, Brazil, and Buenos Aires.

David, a Philadelphia native and Cherry Hill resident, cycled through the superlatives of the South American continent: the Andes, the longest mountain range in the world, the Altiplano, the world’s highest and largest plain, and the Amazon, the world’s largest rain forest. He chose to bike in the back roads, and in some places, on unknown dirt paths and trails. He is currently in the post production of a documentary based on his adventures, called “Sun Drenched on Two Wheels”.

This is his second, self sponsored, bike expedition. In his first, in 2001, he cycled through ten countries for 300 days in two routes. The first, for 180 days was through Peru and Bolivia, and the second for 120 days was through all of Central America, and ended in Chetumal, Mexico, in the Yucutan Peninsula.

David is a biomedical engineer, speaker, and collaborator in various scientific projects. His current project is on the advanced mathematics of Tiwanaku, an ancient ruin of the Aymaran peoples in Bolivia. Past projects include the design and fabrication of a smart suit for space, which involved MIT`s Aero-Astro department and Boston University`s Neuromuscular Research Center, and as the co-founder and coordinator of SPECTRE, a sounding rocket project designed and built as a collaboration of Boston University`s Space Physics Lab, Electrical-Computer Engineering Department, and NASA, which was launched on 14 June 2000.

You can read more about “Sun Drenched on Two Wheels” in his blog http://davesnewadventure.com, and can contact him via email at davesnewadventure at yahoo.com, or by regular mail at David E.X.N. Nghiem, 804 Kingston Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034, USA.