While I firmly believe that your first long, personal journey should be entirely free from modern electronic devices, there are plenty of tourers who pack a smartphone or tablet alongside their tent, stove and toolkit. Android’s app marketplace may not be as well-stocked as that of a certain well-known alternative…
Amongst the many emails I get about planning a cycle tour, the most frequent is “which touring bicycle should I buy?”
Imagine the following entirely hypothetical situation. You, like plenty of others, are hauling a roll-call of sponsors behind the story of your cycle tour. This menagerie is composed of small to medium-sized manufacturers and retailers, who you bludgeoned with the ebony clubs of persistent emails and cold-calling until they gave…
This article originally appeared in the February 2012 issue of Geographical magazine. Blue light slowly invaded my cocoon of flapping fabric. My waking thought was one of despair. The wind, which had made pitching camp so hopeless and miserable the previous evening, hadn’t died. It was thirty degrees below zero.…
I received the following email the other day: I am a little bit confused as to what exactly you do for a living. I know that you are an adventurer, but I don’t get where you get your ‘everyday money’. Sponsorship is one thing for a trip, but if you don’t…
