Tag Archives: Hitch-hiking

Hitching Armenia to England — Ultralight Style

By Tom | Published: August 21, 2009
I arrived at my par­ents’ home in Eng­land nine days after I left my home in Armenia to try and hitch my way there. The trip began well, pro­gressed through a lot of self-inflicted suf­fer­ing, con­tin­ued into ill health, and ended on a happy note. I have to be hon­est — it was a lot [...]
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Have Micro-Adventures For Better Weekends

By Tom | Published: August 7, 2009
I recently came across a new meme by way of Alastair Humphreys’ blog, which I’ve been read­ing reg­u­larly since I read his great travel books while pre­par­ing for Ride Earth. The idea of a ‘micro-adventure’ strikes a very rel­ev­ant chord in this post-ride phase. City life isn’t really my thing. Noise, pol­lu­tion and a feel­ing of [...]
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Oman, Land Of Riches

By Tom | Published: June 7, 2009
From the south­ern city of Sala­lah I planned to ride through Oman towards the UAE. Arriv­ing late at night in a new city is never fun when you’re trav­el­ling with a push­bike, and I had the added hindrance of being entirely unfa­mil­iar with what made Oman tick. The streets were sur­pris­ingly busy with ped­es­tri­ans at this [...]
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Notes From Afar, The Hottest Place On Earth

By Tom | Published: May 6, 2009
I gazed out across the plains from my vant­age point by a mil­it­ary watch-tower at the east­ern edge of the Ethiopian high­lands. I was about to leave the famil­iar crazi­ness of Amhara and to cross the Afar desert, the site of the hot­test air tem­per­at­ure ever recor­ded, and the home of the nomadic Afar tribes. [...]
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Hitching from England to Istanbul

By Tom | Published: January 25, 2009
Face­book has man­aged to almost entirely replace email as a form of elec­tronic com­mu­nic­a­tion amongst friends. While I dis­like the immense waste of human energy that is poured into it, I decided to use it to con­duct a small exper­i­ment. I would allow my Face­book friends one chance to dir­ectly affect my life in the [...]
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