After his release from Egyptian prison, he biked through the Sinai desert, into Jordan, Syria, and Turkey. He powered across Europe over the summer, arriving in Greenwich, in southeast London, to cheers from family, supporters and the Duke of Gloucester, the expedition's British patron.
Lewis said he hoped to use the expedition to raise funds for humanitarian causes and draw attention to environmental issues.
"Instead of running away from England [as I think I was at the beginning] it is now more a question of riding forward on the back of ideas that I feel passionately about," he wrote on his Web site.
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