When your world feels like the inside of a tumble dryer, it can be hard to get oriented.
When the wheels fall off, the strength to face the day can be somewhat elusive.
That’s where I found myself after losing my family, my business and income; uprooted from a busy household of six life-filled people to a home of one, right when COVID meant I couldn’t even legally have a mate over for a cuppa tea for months on end in the world’s most locked down city.
Rather than dwell on the darkness and unspeakable grief of all that, I know I must find a positive posture into a next chapter.
This is going to be a crazy trip! Ride from Melbourne to Darwin. Catch a boat somewhere. Go from there and island hop to South East Asia. Maybe Singapore. Then travel on dirt for months through some of the toughest and most dangerous places on earth. Easy.
You can track Daniel’s precise movements on his MAP page.
Did I say "well"? Just prepare. Safety equipment. Clothes. Bike. Repairs. Food. Maps.
Roll out of Melbourne for Adelaide on Tuesday November 8, after a mad rush to finish packing up and cleaning my flat
A few days riding through the red centre and past Uluru should be straightforward riding
Convince a fisherman to take this boy and bike on the back a boat… to Timor Leste
Hoping for friendly farmers and their dinghies to get me from island to island where a formal ferry isn’t a possibility!
Thailand should be easy, Myanmar maybe less so, but one way or the other I’ll need to get through to Bangladesh
Physically fairly straightforward, although road and other conditions uncertain
Several options here, but the current favourite is to check out a bit of Greece on the way through
A short ferry from Greece to Italy, and then up “the boot” through to France and finally the tunnel to… the opposite side of the planet from home
Bike and boy come home to Aus
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Join me as this bike and I attempt to ride from Melbourne Australia all the way through to London UK in search of hope.