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Spontaneous Sidetracking

For me there’s few better things in life than spontaneous adventures. So when the opportunity arose to road trip ten hours south to cycle over a big red bridge and then drive back again I jumped at the...

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There’s Nothing Like A Warm Shower

When your life involves being in the outdoors for basically 24 hours a day you tend to change your perception on things. Washing dishes involves rinsing them with your water bottle, from an outdoor tap...

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Leaving To Find The Lost Coast

Ever since Tom and I left Vancouver on our Canada to Mexico cycle ride we’ve been hearing whispers of California’s Lost Coast. Fellow cyclists, hosts, people we’ve met at gas stations have all...

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The One With The Huge Pig

“Is that a bear?” I exclaimed to Tom. It was late afternoon in northern California’s Lost Coast region, and we’d just finished an hour and a half climb out of Ferndale into the spectacular, and rather...

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Riding In The Clouds

When it comes to physical and mental challenges taking a long distance bike ride across one of the world’s largest countries is up there. Which is why my brother Tom and I decided that we’d take the...

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Sadness In The Sunshine

After we’d conquered the Lost Coast Tom and I had a clear road to San Francisco. Our route, Highway 1, hugged the northern Californian coast, and a combination of smooth tarmac, our elevated fitness,...

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Ride a Rollercoaster. Get Paid. Make Friends.

As I got further away from my old life in Canada I realised that there was so much more I wanted to do after this trip. We were approaching the end of our voyage in its current form, but the prospect...

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Getting drunk in a graveyard – another hitchhiking adventure

After the fourth consecutive vodka shot at 1pm on a Tuesday I decided I should probably try to eat as much as humanly possible. It was clear that this was a case of ‘get the foreigner drunk’. It was...

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What I did this year

In 2012 I quit my job, left Vancouver on a bicycle, arrived in San Francisco two months later, hitchhiked the length of the Baja peninsula and back, visited England briefly, hitched across Turkey a...

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Memories of Syria, five years ago

“Nowhere else on Earth have I so often been physically restrained from leaving the homes of complete strangers in order to stay for yet another meal or another night.” This was the response from Tom,...

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