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Legacy
What were you born for?? In this cruel world of suffering and refugees and homeless people and war and taxes and divorce and hatred and PMS and Trump you can’t help but wonder why it Read more…
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Homeward Bound
I was sat in Cairns umming and ahhhing about what to do with my post-cycle life. Five months remained on my Australian visa and it’s a massive country with endless possibilities… But deep inside I Read more…
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Hitching: The Power of Thumb
Ever wonder what kind of people pick up hitch hikers???? Yes, they gave me a ride…. Well, 500+ hitch hikes later, on 6 continents, I’m still trying to work that out!! But I can Read more…
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New Zealand – Held Captive Against my Will
New Zealand, the picturesque setting of the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit… a land of beautiful mountains, picturesque waters, crazy adventures and prison…. A 3 year reunion with former yacht-sinking desert-island marooning legend Read more…
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Taking Another Tack
“hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic…” ― Van Morrison WE DID IT!!! …We hadn’t quite crossed the Pacific… We hadn’t Read more…
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Take any Old Year – Turn it Stupendously Epic
I’m not sure how I’ve survived 2012: I’ve fallen 869 times, crashed 3 motorbikes, blown 17 bicycle tyres, licked any and everything, hitched 2687 km, cycled 2953 km, motorbiked 3214 km, sailed some 13 060.8 Read more…
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Travel the World, Lick Things, Be Super-human
Licking a friend Licking a camper van Licking the ruflasia, Malaysia What have you licked lately? I ask this because statistically (probably… I think, maybe) us humans don’t lick enough. We see things and hear Read more…
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The Power of Thumb: And then there was Mum
So once again I’ve accomplished my mission (finally), I’ve done what I set out to do. Trouble and awesomeness have stuck to me like shadows and it’s been quite a ride… But it’s over, it’s Read more…
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The Power of Thumb – It’s Contagious!
7 of us ended hitching out of Shangri-la last Monday. 2 were headed South, and the rest of us North. I was quite looking forward to some good company. But it was only when I Read more…
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The Power of Thumb
“May your child be born with a perforated anus…” yes, this is China [I’m pretty sure of it!] and even the profanities are arbitrary. And it’s confusing enough just traipsing through the country without throwing Read more…