Couple who met on Tinder and joked about quitting their 職業s to cycle the world during first 交流 went on to spend a year and a half travelling together - even getting MARRIED halfway 一連の会議、交渉／完成する

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A couple who joked about cycling around the world together in their first Tinder message have spent 18 months pedaling through four continents.

By their second date マイク Langridge, 32, and Helen Clarkson, 30, from Glasgow, decided to 乗る，着手する on the trip and began saving £27,000 for the 旅行, even moving in together to save on rent.

A year and four months later the couple cycled through Europe, Asia, Australia and North America.

初めは マイク had 地位，任命するd a picture of him standing in Yosemite on his Tinder profile and wrote that his life goal was to cycle the world. When Helen matched with him in January 2016, her first message was: 'When are we leaving?'

The loved up 二人組, who now live in Edinburgh, tied the knot 中央の-way through their 19,000 mile trip in a romantic 儀式 in 国家の park Yosemite in California.?

マイク Langridge and Helen Clarkson met on Tinder in 2016. They joked they would leave everything to cycle around the world, and decide to do it in earnest?

The couple have been everywhere with their bikes, from Utah to 中国, Vietnam, Germany and Thailand (pictured in Turkey)

Helen, said: 'We just thought: "What's stopping us? We could do it, couldn't we?"'?

'Neither of us were happy in our 職業s.

'There was literally nothing stopping us and all we needed was bikes, money and the 決意 to do it.'?

She said: 'My first message, before I even introduced myself, was, "When are we leaving?".'

After 14 months saving for the trip, マイク and Helen got married halfway through their travel in Yosemite, in 前線 of two friends and their parents?

Helen photographed by マイク in Australia during their world 小旅行する on bikes. The couple saved £27,000 for their biking adventure?

マイク replied: 'How about Tuesday?' And the couple soon arranged their first date.'

マイク said: 'We jokingly chatted about our cycle 旅行 and the 大勝する we would take. It was a good way to flirt.'

But by their second date, the couple realised they were 完全に serious about the 探検隊／遠征隊.

Helen had cycled the length of the UK by herself the year before and マイク had done 広範囲にわたる bike trips in Canada and North America.

Helen said: 'It felt like we had known each other for a long time. We just clicked.'

The couple enjoying some Danishes in Germany. It is upon reaching 本土／大陸 Europe that they felt like their trip had really started?

A kiss in Australia. The couple said they 'clicked' upon 会合, and took off on their world 小旅行する by bike 14 months later

Helen in Nevada. The couple moved in together five months into their 関係 ーするために save up on rent?

The couple 概算の that the trip, 含むing bikes, 保険, flights, ビザs and spending money, would cost around £27,000.

They planned to （軍の）野営地，陣営 as much as they could, only splashing out on hotels if there were no （軍の）野営地，陣営ing 場所／位置s 利用できる.

They すぐに began to save money, cutting 負かす／撃墜する on all 高級なs.?

Married halfway through. マイク and Helen decided to marry in Yosemite because a picture of マイク at the 明言する／公表する park 誘発するd a conversation and their 関係?

Helen 提起する／ポーズをとるing in 前線 of a 'welcome to Utah' 調印する. マイク fell ill as the couple were leaving Salt Lale City and had to 運動 to their next 目的地 to give him time to 回復する?

'We spent no money at all,' マイク said.

'We sold all our 価値のあるs, we moved in together after five months to save rent, we didn't go out for drinks.

'We would maybe buy a £3.50 瓶／封じ込める of ワイン once a week.

Giving the thumbs up in Vietnam. The couple started from Glasgow, then pedalled through the UK, 本土／大陸 Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, the US and Australia??

Lovebirds in Switzerland. The couple left home on a Tuesday to 行為／法令／行動する on the joke that had 誘発するd their 関係?

'Then I got an evening 職業 working in a restaurant and Helen transcribed 合法的な and 医療の 文書s at night to earn more money.'

After 14 months, the couple had 備蓄（する）d enough cash and on 4 April 2017 - a Tuesday - they 始める，決める off.

'We 手配中の，お尋ね者 to go on a Tuesday because that's what マイク 示唆するd in our first Tinder 交流,' Helen explained.

マイク on the road in Nevada. The pair got engaged 10 months into their 関係, as they felt they'd known in each for a long time?

'We left Glasgow and cycled to Newcastle to catch the フェリー（で運ぶ） to Amsterdam.

'Once we were in 本土／大陸 Europe, we felt like we had really begun.'

The couple cycled through Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria..

Then through Turkey and into Georgia, then flew to Beijing.

The pair pedalled for two months in 中国, then along the coast of Vietnam to Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore before 飛行機で行くing to Perth, Australia.

に向かって the end of their trip they spent three months biking through the southern and eastern coast of Australia and flew from Brisbane to California.

The couple traveled in California (pictured) from Brisbane after pedalling through Australia for a few months??

In April 2018 they tied the knot in Yosemite in 前線 of their parents and two friends from the UK.

Helen said: 'We were together for 10 months when we got engaged in November 2016.

'We always 手配中の，お尋ね者 to get married in Yosemite and we started planning the wedding when we were in 中国.'

マイク 追加するd: 'It is one of the most beautiful places in the world.

'It was my profile picture on Tinder so it felt 権利 that we got married there.'

Helen and マイク 選び出す／独身d out cycling along a 1,000 mile stretch in Australia as the most 激しい 社債ing experience on the trip.

'Our biggest 社債ing challenge was cycling across the Outback,' said マイク.

'There's a section that joins Eastern and Western Australia.

'It's a road that is 1000 miles long and there's just about nine gas 駅／配置するs, that's it, there's not even a （法廷の）裁判.

'There's a 90-mile stretch where the road doesn't bend o r go up or 負かす／撃墜する a hill - it's a straight line into the 勝利，勝つd.

'It took us a day and a half and it was the hardest mental challenge of the trip.

Making 直面するs in Singapore. The couple, who returned to the UK in August 2018, said they 行方不明になるd the freedom of their bike rides??

'The 勝利，勝つd never stopped blowing into our 直面するs. It was like cycling into a hairdryer. The smell of dead kangaroos was unbearable.

'It took us a day and a half to ride it and Helen broke 負かす／撃墜する in 涙／ほころびs at the end of it.'

Helen 追加するd that for five months they travelled in countries where most people did not speak English and she could only speak to マイク.

She said: 'Because of the language 障壁, the only company we had was each other. That was a big 実験（する）. We knew we could get married at that point.'

After the wedding, the couple 長，率いるd north to Salt Lake City, Utah, and as they left the city, マイク 崩壊（する）d with hypothermia.

A st orm （機の）カム in and Helen watched in horror as マイク weaved along the hard shoulder of the interstate 主要道路.

She said: 'His features were contorted into a 叫び声をあげるing cry, his 注目する，もくろむs were shut and his mouth was wide open.'

She flagged 負かす／撃墜する a car and the driver called an 救急車. Paramedics 扱う／治療するd マイク with heated packs and, once his 気温 was 支援する to normal, he was 発射する／解雇するd.

Helen biking ahead in 中国. The couple took a break from their 小旅行する because of Brexit's 影響 on the 続けざまに猛撃する, but 計画（する） on 'filling in the gaps' and travel to New Zealand?

Helen in Thailand. The young woman said their travel really put her 関係 with マイク to the 実験（する）?

The couple decided to 運動 on to Denver, Colorado, but once there マイク felt 井戸／弁護士席 enough to get 支援する on to his bike.

They cycled into Canada and then flew to フラン, returning home in August 2018 by way of Switzerland, Luxembourg and Belgium.

'The Brexit 投票（する） 減ずるd our spending 力／強力にする so we had to 削減（する） our trip short,' said Helen. 'We 行方不明になるd out on New Zealand.'

The couple had difficulty adjusting to life 支援する home when they returned. 'It was really hard,' Helen said.

'Part of me was glad to have a 残り／休憩（する） from cycling, it wasn't like I still 手配中の，お尋ね者 to do it every day. We 行方不明になるd that freedom, though.

A sunny day in Vietnam. While they struggle to adapt 支援する to their lives in the UK, the couple, who now live in Edinburgh 港／避難所't hung up the bikes just yet

Mile (centre) and Helen (権利) after their return to the UK with their families. The couple are 令状ing a 調書をとる／予約する about the experience?

'When we were on the bike all we had to worry about was what we were going to eat, where we were going to sleep and where we were 長，率いるd.'

The couple 計画（する） on 'filling in the gaps' of their epic 世界的な trip and want to cycle New Zealand.

They have no 悔いるs about the trip and 主張する they would do it again - but 追加するd that biking around the world wasn't for everyone.

マイク said: 'Only do it if you like each other and you like riding a bike even more.'

Helen said: 'It's a really 堅い ask on a 関係. You have to be open to a lot of 妥協 and understanding.? But if someone was to give me 制限のない money, I'd do it again in a heartbeat.'

Helen and マイク are now 令状ing a 調書をとる／予約する about their experience.