She crossed the Malaysian border into her home state, Johor, on Dec 27, 2025, still with mud on her bike after a narrow escape from the floods in Sumatra during her final leg across Indonesia.
She said she first took up motorcycling after dreaming of travelling to Kyrgyzstan, and quickly grew more ambitious, embarking on her first world ride in 2015, just three years after learning to ride.
Anita took a year off work and returned having travelled across four continents, 40 countries, and 65,269km, but found it difficult to resume her old teaching routine after the experience changed her.
She later chose early retirement and spent three more years saving up for a second, slower-paced world ride, still on her same motorcycle.
In 2019, she began the second journey, choosing to start in...