In Sydney, she spent eleven months working as an architect, before motorcycling across Australia. In Townsville, Queensland, she had an accident which left her hospitalised for two weeks. After Australia, she travelled to Singapore, where she spent 6 weeks replacing important documents and gear after they were all stolen, and then she travelled into Asia. In Thailand, she collided with a dog, and recuperated staying with a local family; the family fed her the remains of the dog that she had crashed into. At the time of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi the entire Punjab state was closed. Beard forged the necessary permit to get out of the Punjab region, and travelled into Pakistan, before riding back into Europe via Turkey; She arrived back in the United Kingdom in 1984, having travelled in doing so, she became the first Englishwoman to motorcycle around the world. When Beard returned from the trip there was a lack of interest for what she had accomplished, as she stated in an interview; "After I got back and nobody was interested in what I'd done I just shoved everything into the back of the garage. I just kind of moved on with my life."