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Introducing TomsBikeTrip.com

By Tom | Published: January 7, 2011

Now that Ride Earth has come to a close, I’ll be dir­ect­ing my ener­gies into a new web pro­ject, TomsBikeTrip.com.

Hav­ing a new web­site lets me start afresh and con­cen­trate on what’s import­ant, now the long-term trav­el­ling phase of my life is at an end.

I’ll be writ­ing about new adven­ture and media pro­jects as they hap­pen, and about the pro­cess of author­ing the book of Ride Earth and devel­op­ing the pho­to­graphy and video pro­jects that have gone with it. I don’t sup­pose for a second that I’ll be able to res­ist a few of the exten­ded philo­soph­ical rants that reg­u­lar read­ers might be used to either!

Head over to TomsBikeTrip.com and see what you think. Be gentle — it’s brand new.

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Last Year In Review, And What’s In Store For 2011

By Tom | Published: January 1, 2011

Last year began with a party to end all New Years Eve parties, in a small bar in Yerevan, Armenia with good friends and vis­it­ing cyc­lists. It was well after sun­rise before I found my way to bed in the flat that I was rent­ing with my wife Tenny. After sev­eral weeks of hard home-office-bound work, it was just what I’d needed.

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3½ Years Into 3 Minutes

By Tom | Published: December 24, 2010

A super-short blast through my time away from the UK, from bolshy begin­nings in 2007 to humble home­com­ings a few weeks ago.

Look out for more video com­ing very soon. Merry Christmas!

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Catching Up With Dan Martin

By Tom | Published: December 16, 2010

When Dan says the water’s cold, you don’t argue with him. Nor when he tells you to wear two swim­ming caps on top of each other. I’d never done any wild swim­ming worth men­tion­ing, so when I turned up at Dan’s reg­u­lar river swim­ming haunt one Decem­ber lunch­time and dis­covered that the water tem­per­at­ure was two degrees above freez­ing, I began to won­der if it had been such a good idea to accept his invit­a­tion after all.

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How I’m Navigating In The World Of Work

By Tom | Published: December 13, 2010

Hav­ing taken plenty of advice from friends, fam­ily and fel­low long-term trav­el­lers to take it easy upon return­ing home, the ele­ments of domestic life on this small island seem to be gradu­ally click­ing into place.

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