"The horizon is so flat in all directions that they came right down to Earth. With very little infrastructure, and villages few and far between as they cycled through the Ustyurt Plateau, the stars above magically enveloped them. The blistering heat and wind of the desert in Uzbekistan forced Yule and Harris to bike at night. I felt like I was a tourist in an oppressive regime and that felt terrible." "There weren't just checkpoints marking the boundaries of the autonomous region as a whole, but the boundaries of every single village we passed through," she explained. Harris said going back to Tibet five years later was devastating. "But in the process we snuck through Tibet without permission from the Chinese authorities, and that's really what sparked my interest in borders." The bike trip down the Silk Road with Yule began as just an adventure, said Harris , who's been named one of Canada's top 10 adventurers by Canadian Geographic. "You don't have to go to a new world to feel like you've entered a new world." "For me, what I got out of the Silk Road was so much of what I was seeking in going to Mars," she said. Turquoise salt lake on the Tibetan Plateau.
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