Riley graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 2014 with a degree in International Studies and Political Science and unlike the other two nerds he will not be going on to graduate school. Riley is an Eagle Scout who has a history of high adventure in the Midwest US, Florida Keys, and the boundary waters between the US and Canada. Riley's latest adventure was a bicycle trip across the US from San Francisco, CA to Yorktown, VA in the summer of 2012. He is most looking forward to watching the scenery change the further east they go and interacting with all the people along the way. He can only hope their rickety car will hold up on the 10,000 mile journey and that they carry enough duct tape with them to reattach what does fall off.

Parker is an aerospace engineer from Roanoke, Virginia. He attended Georgia Tech for his undergraduate education and will be entering MIT in 2014 for a double Masters in engineering and policy. Parker is an Eagle Scout and avid outdoorsman with a history of treks in Canada, England, France, Switzerland, Italy, India, and the United States. Beyond getting their car across Eurasia in one(ish) piece, Parker is looking forward to the people they will meet along the way and the cultures they will experience. He hopes to ride horses with the Kazakhs and take in the stars in the Gobi desert without an electric light within a hundred miles!