dream adventure ????

[stuee147]

iv been thinking of my dream adventure i have always wanted to tour the uk just me my bike and a trailer. now you may say ok but thats nothing new. but i would like to do it with no time constraints or anything i think it would be great to just load the bike up and ride no plan as to where or when just to do it maybe for a month maybe even a year just ride around off the beaten tracks finding all the little places that no one but the locals know about.

my other dream is to take part in the mongol rally one year me and a friend applied a few years back but we never got a place id still like to try it even though i know i wouldn't manage it now lol

so come on lets hear your dream adventure cycling or anything

stuee

 

[Keith Oates]

I know it's been done a million times but I'd still like to do LEJOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[vernon]

I know it's been done a million times but I'd still like to do LEJOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've lived that dream.

I'm currently engaged in despatching the EV6 route - the Atlantic to the Black Sea, St Nazaire to Constanta in instalments with the final instalment taking place this summer.

The next biggie will be the Northern Tier, a coast to coast in America which I will do in one go sometime before 2018. It nearly came to fruition last year but a rekindled interest in employment has got in the way.

 

[MontyVeda]

think you've got it bang on Stuee.... a bike and no time constraints, just go where I want and when I want, under canvass or a roof as the weather permits, dropping in on distant friends and family.

edit... do it in 2017 @vernon if you can... there's a total eclipse in August that year somewhere between Portland and North Carolina

 

[vernon]

think you've got it bang on Stuee.... a bike and no time constraints, just go where I want and when I want, under canvass or a roof as the weather permits, dropping in on distant friends and family.

edit... do it in 2017 @vernon if you can... there's a total eclipse in August that year somewhere between Portland and North Carolina

I've done the total eclipse milarky in 1999 on Alderney. It was interesting but not memorable. It took your posting to remind me that I'd witnessed one.

 

[TheDoctor]

Saw the 1999 eclipse near Amiens, and the 2006 one in Turkey.
Probably give the Faroes a miss in 2015 though. It's bound to be raining.
Other than LEJOG, my dream for a while has been touring Provence, riding Ventoux and the Nesque Gorge.
Doing it this November

 

[MontyVeda]

Saw the 1999 eclipse near Amiens, and the 2006 one in Turkey.
Probably give the Faroes a miss in 2015 though. It's bound to be raining.
...

I was in Etretat in '99 where i got the bug... then in the vicinity Side in Turkey in '06... hopefully I'll get over to the states for '17... just a case of saving up and deciding where on the line to catch it.

 

[pplpilot]

1992 I sort of did mine, albeit prematurely, I always wanted to backpack around the world... I was in a job I hated and had a boss that was a total imbecile. I made a promise to myself the very next time he had a pop I'd tell him to stick the job up his arse, walk out and go travelling. After working most the weekend his monday morning criticism of the work we had done that weekend was the final straw, I said nothing and left that evening never to return. three weeks later I was in Australia at a friend's house ready to start my travels. I returned home 20 months later with a maxed out credit card and an empty savings account and a head full of experiences and memories. Best thing I ever did.

 

[MikeG]

I've driven the length of Africa. Now, I'd love to cycle it.....

 

[MarkF]

Had 3 dream ones, across Spain (done), to Istanbul during the next Euro's (doing) and NY to Seattle, the latter will have to wait till my daughter leaves education, 5 years then. I want to take my time, no planned route, then stay with my relatives in WA. I worry than I might not stay healthy and my relatives might die (they are 80+) before I go.

 

[MarkF]

1992 I sort of did mine, albeit prematurely, I always wanted to backpack around the world... I was in a job I hated and had a boss that was a total imbecile. I made a promise to myself the very next time he had a pop I'd tell him to stick the job up his arse, walk out and go travelling. After working most the weekend his monday morning criticism of the work we had done that weekend was the final straw, I said nothing and left that evening never to return. three weeks later I was in Australia at a friend's house ready to start my travels. I returned home 20 months later with a maxed out credit card and an empty savings account and a head full of experiences and memories. Best thing I ever did.

Excellent, pplpiot, I set off to work in 1989, had set-to with my boss and was in NY the same day, it's great to flounce out!

 

[vernon]

Excellent, pplpiot, I set off to work in 1989, had set-to with my boss and was in NY the same day, it's great to flounce out!

#impressed #awesome #envious

 

[CopperBrompton]

I've done the total eclipse milarky in 1999 on Alderney. It was interesting but not memorable.

I couldn't disagree more. It's an awe-inspiring experience in the rare, genuine sense of the term. I could easily imagine why people thought the world was coming to an end in the days before the phenomenon was understood.

 

[vernon]

I couldn't disagree more. It's an awe-inspiring experience in the rare, genuine sense of the term. I could easily imagine why people thought the world was coming to an end in the days before the phenomenon was understood.

It was interesting. Nothing more. What was awe inspiring was a storm that hit Darlington in 1967. Day turned to night - for a period far longer than that of a solar eclipse and was accompanied by rain and hail of an intensity that I have never witnessed since. The storm was a humungous one that covered county Durham and reached as far away as Bradford. My classmates and I - probably our teacher too, thought it was the end of the world. I fervently prayed to God, I was a regular attendee of Sunday School at the time, and confessed to all of my sins and promised to be a regular church attender if he spared us.

I reneged on the deal.

 

[CopperBrompton]

Big storms are ace too, but less easy to view by appointment.