I know you aren’t suppose to run away from your problems. But this last month since the accident has been really stressful and as I get nearer and nearer to home I feel like the problems of the last month are slowly melting away. I still need to figure out what to do [...]

A big thank you to everyone for following along on the journey with me. A special thank you to everyone that commented, emailed and sent help along the way.

It’s weird when something that has been such a big part of your life is over (other than sorting out my collarbone and what to do with my bike). So I have decided to follow in Ian’s path and come up with a set of new goals for the future.

I am getting depressed sitting around Dakar Motos wondering what I am going to do with my bike so I decided to go into town and see the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo march as their children disappeared during the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983. It turns out that Myles who came down [...]

I had arranged to go back to Dakar Motos in order to take the bike across the border with Stephen and now I am going back to sort out a big mess as now I have to figure out what to do with my motorbike. We made a list of the things wrong with [...]

Ian (100 goals in 100 weeks) likes to have company when he completes a goal and I was lucky enough to be accompanying him on goal 74. This is his write up for the day. A big thanks to him for being my chauffeur for the day and allowing me to see all the [...]

For the first time on my trip I give up. I shipped my bike up to Dakar Motos and the guy who has bought it went there on the 22nd January to make sure it was ok as I had told him about the crash and sent him photos has decided that he wants [...]

I went to a traditional dinner and show and it turns out that they traditionally cooked like the maoris do in New Zealand by steaming food in a pit (see my blog entry when my family did a hangi).
I had been looking forward to coming to Easter Island because I thought it being a Polynesian [...]

There isn’t really much to do on Easter Island when you can’t dive, snorkel, hire a car to drive or bicycle around so I decided to have a reki session with Diana. I was a little bit skeptical but actually I felt much better afterwards.
Then in the afternoon we went to the place that [...]

I was lucky enough to find Diana to couch surf with as accommodation is pretty expensive on Easter Island. Diana is a Swiss girl who had been studying alternative therapies while working at a bank and then gave it all up to come and become a healing practitioner on Easter Island. I have [...]

I met a Swiss nurse who said that collarbone breaks are usually fixed by wearing something that pulls your shoulders back and that if you don’t fix it right away it knits wrongly. So now I am worried that I have to have surgery if it isn’t too late already and whether I will [...]

As well as transporting these 120 tonne statues all over the island a lot of them are wearing these red stones as top hats that weigh several tonne. The next night we went to a Rapa Nui dance show.

Easter Island is the worlds most isolated inhabited island – Chile is 3500kms to the east and Pitcairn Island is 2000kms to the west.
But what really makes it an enigma is that the Polynesian society that lived here almost drove themselves extinct due to the deforestation of the island including the giant palms that they [...]

Since I was at school in NZ and one of my classmates was apparently in the movie Rapa Nui I have wanted to go to Easter Island and I was able to get a ticket with my airmiles for £30. It isn’t really the ideal time as I wanted to go diving and it [...]

There is a city 100kms from Santiago called Valparaiso which is the cultural capital of Chile and has steep streets, elevators and lots of graffiti. When I mentioned to Roberto and Daniela that all the tours were booked they said that they would take me and Myles. Great day for us, but they [...]