When the urge became impossible to ignore, Sarah Cook bought a touring bike and an “all-singing, all-dancing four-season tent”, and packed her belongings into 68-litre bike bags. She was 60, and, having rented out her flat in Cumbria, England, set off alone to pedal the Pacific west coast of the US. Cook wanted to find out, she says, what happened “when your life was on the road. View image in fullscreen ‘When I start turning the pedals, my spirit takes off’ … Cook. It was grey and grizzly in Scotland, and everything was damp when she packed up and fastened the lights to her bike.