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No wonder the Aussies think we brits are wimps. Just watched a great program on sky travel about the grey nomads. 60/70 year olds packing up and heading off into the wildnerness in their clapped out motorhomes. Did not see one £80k motorhome, most looked as thought they should be on ebay, going for a fiver.
One lady was 9000 miles YES 9000 MILES away from where she had started and had no thoughts of returning.
absolutely great.
Now if I go fulltime will I be able to support myself in 30 years time or should I work hard for the next 29 years to make sure I can????? Ermmm
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not quite motorhoming but your post reminded me of my present reading book called Jupiter's travels by Ted Simon who set off in 1973 on a Triumph Tiger 100 to travel round the world. 4 years and 50,000 miles later he got back. He wasn't so young the first time he did it at the tender age of 46 but I discovered today that he repeated it again in 2001 at the very tender age of 69, finishing when he was 72.
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unfortunately his second journey isn't available except on DVD but when I've finished the first one I may consider getting it just to contrast the world today with the same world in the 70's.
There was also another book I read not too long ago, which I got from the library and unfortunately I can no longer recall the title or author but it was a woman cyclist who cycled through India and Pakistan and Afghanistan. The latter before all of the troubles began (in the 60's I think) and it gave a cracking insight into Afghanistan and it's people, a different country to the one we know now from TV. She was a real adventurer, nonchalantly carrying a pistol with her which she used twice to scare people off with - no mention of how she came by it or got it through customs on a bicycle!
Kinda puts things into perspective stuff like that.
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Blimey! I remember reading that yonks ago. I never realised he'd repeated it. And there was me, approaching 50, fretting over where my next electric hook-up's going to be. I'm just a wuss, obviously.
I love reading these real-life adventure books. Read something last year about two young guys who cycled round the world. A brilliant book, full of amazing highs and lows. I'd recommend it, if I could remember what it was called.
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