#5 23 May 2007—30 June 2007 Endless Dream Nowhere to go. I had five days until I needed to take my final course of vaccines and they had to remain refrigerated at the Airlie Beach Pharmacy. I gave myself this time to find another yacht before moving on and continuing the search. Once again I…

#4 23 April 2007—22 May 2007 Seawanhaka Seawanhaka (Island of Shells) comes from the Native American Shinacock tribe of Long Island. By the time I had arrived in Townsville I’d cycled 3,300 km, but aptly it hardly felt like I’d cycled anywhere. Three months of travel, a minor vertical scratch on the globe and still…

#3 24 March 2007—22 April 2007 Gladstone stinks! I don’t mean that as a derogatory remark. It’s a fact, and I couldn’t figure out whether it was emissions from the aluminum smelter or the coal plant or the mass of coalmines around the joint. The locals couldn’t shed light on the situation as they didn’t…

#2 15 February 2007—23 March 2007 ‘The madly complicated modern world was something I took little interest in. It had no relevancy, no weight. I wasn’t seduced by it.’ —Bob Dylan * I spent a month with my sister and family in North Bondi, Sydney, tying up loose ends. On 15 February I left homely…

#1 10 December 2006—14 January 2007 ‘May all the many wonders of this Earth be revealed to you on your journey. And may every snapped bike frame be an opportunity to indulge still further in the beauty of people whose lives you enter.’ —Ben Kozel, 2006 Departing December 10th, 2006 The day was an absolute…