Such a simple question. One that rattles around in my brain in various forms often. But to give credit where it is due I will thank Neil Peart of RUSH fame and his book Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and T...
Having left my bank card in Nicaragua I needed a safe place to send my card to. I had briefly met a girl called Jenny Xie in Lago Atitlan Guatemala who worked in San Vito Costa Rica. This was my only contact in Costa Rica so I arranged to have my car...
Patricia and I have been inundated with messages of congratulations and goodwill, for all of which we are sincerely grateful… We have decided to share an assortment of our wedding day photos with the many thousands of people who have followed my expl...
I was up early this morning to greet this new and auspicious day…
I stood on the beach watching the sun come up and making wishes that were carried away on the early morning breeze that was coming off the Atlantic Ocean…
Jon here: Day 94 of the trip. Having ridden through Europe, Russia, Mongolia and South Korea it was finally time for Tough Miles to hit up the USA. With the bikes onboard a container ship somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Pete and I took ...
Oh Canada, our beloved northern neighbor, whose residents LOVE their Tim Horton’s (their version of Starbucks) more than sliced bread. Oh, if they only knew a real coffee shop. You won’...
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So I had been scrimping on tyres a bit, hoping to make it to Colombia where I would fit out my bike for the next leg of the journey. But in doing that I had left myself e...
If you read the ‘Passport Found’ blog, you’re may be wondering about how we managed to get kicked out of a friend’s house – thought it was worthy of noting. This was one hellofa strange encounter.
We had visions of meeting a lot of people on this...