January 2012 – Newsletter #5 Greetings to all fellow lunatics and escaped ones, whether current, former, about to, or to people who maintain the dream in the recesses of their minds………….. Hello to everybody and a festive glass to you all on entering the brave new world of 2012. Many people over recent weeks have [...]
DECEMBER 2011 – Newsletter #4
Current News A recent set of thoughts triggered this newsletter as light bulbs went off like little Christmas trees in my head after a ‘conversation’ on a social networking site. Each twinkle involved an understanding of something I had learned, experienced, or been fortunate to achieve on circling the world. In fact, all those little twinkling [...]
NOVEMBER 2011 – Newsletter #3
Current News Well isn’t it surprising how time goes past? It doesn’t seem a month since the last newsletter and yet here we are again! Over the last month we have stayed busy ‘fettling’ our manuscript for the book with the help of none other than the motorcyling author Ted Simon. Many other well known writers [...]
OCTOBER 2011 – Newsletter #2
Current News And so the news is out and no longer are people all over the place going, ‘nudge, nudge’, or ‘who do you think it is?’ Yes, it is now official. Bernard has been selected by the Ted Simon Foundation as a Jupiter’s Traveller. In essence the foundation was set up to encourage; ‘…….those who adventure [...]
SEPTEMBER 2011 – Newsletter #1
A Blind Woman, Two Wheels and 25,000 Miles. If you dare to dream. In the beginning It’s hard to know sometimes where to begin as this may well be somewhere other than at the start. So it is with this newsletter in many ways. We say this as we fell off the circuit for a [...]
USA and Going Home.
A short ride later we stand under hot showers sweeping the coldness from our bones in a hotel as bike suits drip water leaving a stream unwinding across the floor. As the pools gather it starts to dawn on us. In a few days we will be home. Home? It no longer feels the same. [...]
Central America
Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico “Inspirational”. It’s a funny word when we think about it. ‘To inspire’ is to motivate people to seek change. It is the whole purpose of ‘motivational speakers’ as they stride platforms all over the world ‘inspiring’ people to change their behaviours, attitudes or beliefs. The [...]
Ecuador and Colombia
As we ride into Ecuador the laughter fades as ‘time’ starts to focus our thinking. We have 1000kms (626 miles) to the Colombian border with the same distance to ride to the capital, Bogota. From here we must now fly to Panama. The original plan (slower and cheaper five day boat crossing), has been lost [...]
Peru
It is a strange feeling when you pull across the border to another country. The transition from one to another always leaves us with deeply engrained memories. We can still vividly recall crossing into Turkey, India, and a whole myriad of others. Something special always seems to happen at these demarcation lines which leave indelible [...]
Chile
Australia and everything which has happened during our time on that vast continent consumed most of our thinking and talking during the – long, long, – incarceration on planes flying towards our fourth continent so far (South America). In between bouts of sleeping as we flew further and further from Sydney, our minds turn towards [...]
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