A cousin of mine has been doing this the other way around. She is riding a bicycle home to Australia from London.

She made it across Europe and Russia, all the way to the Chinese border before Covid-19 hit and the Chinese wouldn't permit her to enter, so she has backed tracked to Tbilisi to wait it out before continuing.

You’ll probably enjoy “First Overland” [1], it’s a great travel story. There was an expedition in 2019 sort of recreating it[2] with one of the original vehicles and characters.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/336877.First_Overland?fr... [2] https://www.lastoverland.com/

Depends which direction you go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Across_the_World_(series_... was good, aside from the winners. Series 2 was better.

maybe if you just stayed on the train the whole time but the great thing about trains is there's another one tomorrow!