Along the way, he raised money for the Trevor Project Mortensen in China After 280 days, Andrew Mortensen, a UT-Austin alum, has completed an epic bicycling odyssey, spanning 27,461 miles across 37 different countries. The 32-year-old is the first openly gay man to officially cycle around the world. The journey unfolded in two distinct phases. The first segment began in August 2020, when Mortensen pushed off from the Pacific Ocean, in Neah Bay, Washington.