Fitness, The Experience of Travel, and Barriering your Time

When we started Ride Earth we did research on planning a long distance bike tour. Travel insurance is one thing that is essential to have and you will probably need more than basic travel insurance.

Adventure cycle touring takes you out into the unknown, in the elements and closer to life which is a good thing. We often end up spending a good portion of our time couped up in vehicles or offices in perceived safety.

Royal Geographical Society Explore 2010 - Expedition Planning Seminar

The annual expedition & fieldwork planning weekend is taking place at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore,
London, SW7 2AR on Friday, Saturday & Sunday 12 - 14 November 2010.

Lectures, workshops, and exhibits cover the planning and undertaking of research projects and expeditions in a variety of environments and disciplines. Over 100 leading field scientists and explorers will provide contacts, inspiration and research about expeditions and adventure.

Tom and I attended Explore in 2007 and it made a huge impact. It was incredibly inspiring and gave much needed clarity and credibility to our ideas. We were able to attend brilliant lectures from inspiring speakers and chat to people with experience of travelling and expeditions. We made loads of contacts and were given vital inspiration which helped to turn our ideas into a tangible expedition.

Can I help you?

Recently I have met up with people who have called upon me for advice about bike touring, travel advice -and whatever else they get from me as an added bonus ;) .  I have had some positive feedback from these meetings and I have also got a lot out of them myself.

I would like to extend this invitation to anyone who might be planning a bike trip or adventure-related project or fancies a chat about anything I've been writing on this blog. I would be happy to meet up.

Possible future adventures

I am always brewing new ideas for adventures even though recently I have become city-bound in London. I know that if I don't capture these ideas and plan for the future they won't come to bear, because I will have to set a date for them to happen in the future. Since I have done some travelling now and got a bit of experience some of my wanderlust has, shall we say, become more focused. I no longer feel that to not travel every country in the world before my death would be disappointing in the sense that there is an opportunity cost of doing anything because of our limited life spans; Average life expectancy data for UK.