RobertPenn. British journalist and writer who regularly writes for outlets such as The Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, FT, Independent on Sunday and Conde Nast Traveler, as well as numerous specialist cycling publications. He presented the BBC4 documentary Ride of My Life: the Story of the Bicycle and the BBC4 series Tales from the Wild Wood. To make Road to Nowhere, broadcast on Sky 1 in April 2014 and rated by The Times as a brilliant documentary, he cycled the Trans-Amazon Highway together with Freddie Flintoff (England's cricket champion). He is the author of the books The Sky is Falling on our Heads, The Wrong Kind of Snow, and The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees. He is a sponsor of the Small Woods Association and a media associate of the Sylva Foundation, two organizations working to improve the culture of English society about the forests of Great Britain. He is also the director of Bikecation, a vacation company on two wheels. In his early twenties, Penn gave up his career and started pedaling around the world. He has ridden a bicycle most of the days of his adult life, and has ridden in more than forty countries on five continents. He currently lives in the Black Mountains in South Wales with his wife and his three children, commuting to work through heather moor on a daily basis on his mountain bike.