Yvonne and Scott Goldsmith came to Anchorage in 1975 upon finishing studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Yvonne started work as a land use and transportation planner at the Borough and then the Municipality. In the early 90’s she worked with Helen at the AK. Dept. of Natural Resources. She retired two years ago after serving as an epidemiologist for the Alaska Division of Public Health. For exercise, she is now doing what a lot of retired runners do – bicycle. Scott recently retired after nearly 40 years as professor ofeconomics at the University of Alaska Anchorage Institute of Social and Economic Research. Although he continues to work part time on Alaska economic issues, he is transitioning to spending more time on his skisand mostly on his bicycles, trying to keep up with his wife. Together they have bike-toured in Europe, China, Southeast Asia, and the lower 48. They try to fit in the Fireweed 400 in Alaska each summer. Theirpresentation is about the 3-month, 4000 mile tour they did in the summer of 2014, the western portion of the Silk Route from Kashgar, China, through four ‘stan countries, Iran and Turkey, to Istanbul.