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Answering the big questions
Archive | Random Ramblings
The Millionaire Question
555km Warman to Dauphin What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and found you’d won a million dollars? Since the earliest days of our trip, we’ve asked this question of everyone we spend an evening with. “Camels. I’d buy camels,” said a nomad in Morocco, explaining that camels were the gold standard in […] Read More »
From Sandstorms to Somalia
I can still see him emerging from the sandstorm. Between the clouds of dust being whipped up in the Turkmenistan desert came a Chinese man on a bicycle so frail and with so little luggage, it seemed obvious that he couldn’t have come far. I should have known better. After all, few people get to […] Read More »
Dreaming of going nomadic? Read on…
So many people react to our trip with a sense of envy. “I want to do it too,” they say. Wwanting to get out there is half the battle but once you’ve decided to take the plunge, where do you start and what do you need to be aware of to successfully launch your new […] Read More »
Over the Continental Divide
It’s Sunday morning and after a fine breakfast of sourdough pancakes and sausage (kindly supplied along with much camraderie from our new friends Sam and Jo), we’re making a dash for the border. There’s no time for a longer update now. We’ve got about 80km to the border and much of it hilly, but we […] Read More »