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Simon Bidwell
Grinding out a living in a government department in Wellington, New Zealand, pays the bills for Simon Bidwell to gradually fulfill his ambition of seeing every part of Latin America. Much of the story so far is at www.bidsta.blogspot.com while www.andean-observer.com will have a collection of writing and images when it’s finally finished. Simon occasionally has freelance articles published in various New Zealand newspapers and maagzines. His greatest achievement to date is defeating all the locals in a beer-drinking race at 3,800 metres above sea level on the Peruvian Altiplano.
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Erin Spradlin
Erin Spradlin has lived in Colorado, Africa and Alaska. Her travel experience has made her appreciate Ranch salad dressing, her little pillow and the Beatles. She spends her free time thinking up verbally abusive nick names for her dog and subjecting others to her political opinions. She currently resides in Denver, CO and will be attending law school in the fall of 2007.
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Colleen Pawling
Pawling lives in Washington DC when she is not wandering. When she can get away she likes to follow bears around in the Andes. Check out the website at www.andeanbear.org. She has now completed PADI certification, although she’s still a little afraid of water.
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Joe Reynolds
Near the end of a bike journey in Iowa, Joe found himself taking cover from a tornado in a Port-o-John, which, in retrospect, he likens to inviting a hundred strangers to poop on him. Anyhow, that ride fueled his thirst for adventure.
With a check next to ‘college degree’ on his to do list, Joe set off on a four-month romp around Europe and north Africa, which led to a three month jaunt around SE Asia the next year, and more months in Central and South America the following year. This left him with an affection for llamas, above average chopstick skills, and a rash, two of which have since disappeared.
Nowadays, Joe can be found in Chicago trying to make a million dollars and practicing Rock Paper Scissors, a demanding sport in which he qualified for the Bud Light National semi-finals [1]. You can email him at jareyno2000@yahoo.com. He wants to know you.
1. Tip: Throw paper first.
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Michael G. McLaughlin
In 2005, Michael sold most of his worldly belongings in California, moved to Lake Chapala, Mexico and never looked back. His days are now filled with perfect weather, time to write and Spanish language lessons. OK, maybe a Margarita or two. While a captive in the United States he founded, directed and performed with a small comedy theater, appeared in television commercials, industrial videos and was local President of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. His short stories have appeared nationally and internationally in the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, Barfing Frog Press, Piker Press, The Harrow, Gold Dust Magazine (United Kingdom), Write Side Up, Shine, Prose Toad, Poor Mojo, Turbular, Pens on Fire ,LongShort Magazine Gold Dust (United Kingdom), La Fenetre (France), Aphelion (Australia), Ojo Del Lago (Mexico) and Sun Dog. Presently he performs with an improvisational comedy troupe Spanglish Imposition—-The only English speaking troupe between Tijuana and Tierra del Fuego. He can be reached at michaelmcmex@yahoo.com. But not promptly.
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Mark Byers
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Greg Rodgers
Greg Rodgers suffered as a cubicle rat for 7 years before finally
stuffing a rucksack and hopping on a plane. He has been spotted
on rare occasion in his hometown of Lexington, KY, USA – but
can usually be found wherever there are cheap noodles. He is
currently the vagabonding editor of www.StartBackpacking.com.
Greg can be contacted via his homepage: www.gregoryrodgers.com
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Jeff Frank
Jeff Frank is Peace Corps Volunteer living in a small Maya village in the jungle of Belize. Jeff has published several journalistic and travel writing articles during his time in Belize and is maintaining a blog cataloging his work at: www.jeffinbelize.blogspot.com
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Morgan Lloyd
Morgan Lloyd was born and raised on a small farm in rural Ohio. At the age of 18 he hit the road to Alaska with a meager savings and no plan. Over the next 2 years he wandered in search of real answers and a livable life. The journey has taken him through three continents, various loves, battles with the loneliness and insanity of the road, and extreme poverty. Though the lessons haven’t been easy, he has learned much from the trail, and has reached a much happier and more peaceful understanding on the nature of his life.
Currently, he is living in the mountains of Peru, meditating and enjoying the company of his harmonica.
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Magda Knight
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Andrew Burge
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Lynne Kennedy
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Natasha Smith
Tasha is an associate editor on Road Junky, specializing amongst in other things travel news items.
She is currently promoting the following writing resource:
www.inthewritelight.com
Creative Writing Workshop for new and emerging writers based in Tarifa, south Spain. All are welcome. Run over a 4 day period, the course is designed to feed artistic spirits and develop creative talents in a location that is both inspiring and relaxed. There are no criteria for attending the course except enthusiasm and imagination. Both will be encouraged to run free!
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Sarah Fretwell
New to the Road Junky team, Sarah Fretwell acts as associate editor of photography.
A full bio can be found here.
You can view her work at www.sarahfretwell.com.
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Joss Berrett
Joss Berrett is generally lazy and would rather be reading a book. Despite this, he recently managed to drag himself through Central America with his remarkably patient girlfriend in tow. Together they explored every Market in San Salvador and tried hard to work on an organic farm. He also jetted off to Providence RI, where he was lucky enough to play drums at the prestigious Terrastock festival.
When he’s not traveling (or planning to travel), Joss can be found watching, participating in or talking about all manner of sports. He writes as often as he is able and wants to have a cooking show. He has played drums and percussion for ten years and is always up for a new project.
2007 will see Joss once again leave sunny Australia and make his way as far into Asia as he is able (With a base in Hanoi.) In the meantime he still thinks Brisbane is the nicest city in the world and is convinced that the Socceroo’s will one day win the world cup. He continues to be terrified while flying.
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Paul Bartlett
Paul Bartlett was born in southern England in 1962. After graduating in 1985 with a degree in Cultural Studies he spent the next 5 years or so working in a series of dead-end temporary jobs in London in order to finance trips around Europe.
Then he hit upon the idea of teaching English as a means of combining making money with travel. Since 1992 he has lived in Greece, Czech Republic, Russia, Spain, Uzbekistan and now Kazakhstan, where he lives with his partner, Jo, who is similarly afflicted with the travel bug. In that time he has traveled all over the former Soviet Union and ventured into China, India and Thailand. He has been writing about his travels for the last 5 years. He is an easy-going individual who sees work as a means to provide the money for future trips to obscure parts of Asia. He is currently trying to adjust the work-life balance more in favour of life, having tired of working full time for other people.Paul Bartlett's biography permlink
Sarah Eustis
Sarah Eustis grew up and in Maine. After college,
she left that beautiful but cold state for a teaching
position in New Mexico. There, she spent four years
feeding her addiction to gree chile and developing a
fondness for Volkswagen Vans. Which is why she bought
a ’79 Westfalia and spent 9 months living in it as she
traveled the U.S. with her dog, Ellie. Currently,
Sarah lives in Brooklyn, New York and tries to
maintain a traveling lifestyle. She recently spent a
month teaching English to children in Uganda ! and also
spent 10 days backpacking around the Dominican
Republic.
Sarah wrote the article, ‘A Road Marked With Kindness’
for the alumni magazine of her alma mater: Colby
College.
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Phil Smith
Phil Smith was born 26 years ago in leafy Buckinghamshire, England. An enthusiastic dabbler in foreign languages, he spent a year living in France and studying French while a student. After graduating, he worked for a travel agency specialising in European travel for school groups, and has travelled to Mexico, Thailand, India and Nepal. You can find out more about him at philsmith.freeservers.com.
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Joe Brana
Where is he now? Some say the South Pacific, some say Mexico. Know one knows for sure.
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Alex Loeb
Former Roadjunky intern, Alex holds a bachelors degree in Journalism from the University of Montana. He’s spent time traveling in Southeast Asia while living in Bangkok.
After his Spring assignment with Roadjunky, Alex disappeared into the Alaskan fishery scene never to be heard from again.
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Charles Brennick
Peace Corp Volunteer – Paraguay and master Amazon river rafter.
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Shannon Cram
Shannon Cram is a graduate student in Geography at
the
University of Oregon studying the politics of
nuclear
waste cleanup. She has lived, worked, and/or
traveled
in 20 countries and plans to hit the road again once
she graduates.
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Laurie Price
Laurie Price is a poet, jewelry designer, and native New Yorker who has worked as a TEFL teacher, editor, and translator, among other things. She has travelled and lived outside of the United States on and off for the past 15 years, and in late 2001, Morocco became her home for a year. She has published several books of poetry including Except for Memory (Pantograph Press, 1993), Under the Sign of the House (Detour Press, 1999), The Assets (Situations Press, 2000) and Minim (Faux Press e-book, 2002). In 1993 she received a Wallace Alexander Gerbode year-long paid poetry award, which allowed her to spend a few years in Mexico working on various projects, including a text/sculpture/installation series which was exhibited in Mexico City under the title Desde Dentro Hacia Fuera (Inside Out). One of the pieces, a glass book, can be viewed here. Her work has appeared in a variety of print and online magazines and journals, including www.eratio.com, www.shampoo.com, www.softblow.com (2004), and will be featured in the forthcoming online magazine www.aught.com. She currently lives in Granada, Spain.
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Philip Blazdell
Philip Blazdell has been travelling for the last fifteen years and would like to stop now, thank you very much. His travels began when he followed a girl in nice purple pyjamas to Istanbul and got into all kinds of trouble with her parents. Despite marriage proposals in Las Vegas, arrests in Germany, and lust in the dust in more than one third-world shit hole, he has never looked back. Well, not that much really.
Philip currently divides his time between his home in Middle England, SFO International Airport and some grotty little town in the Netherlands that is best not spoken about in polite company. He constantly worries about using the word ‘awesome’ too much whilst in the USA and dreams of a day when he can go a whole day without resorting to Diet Coke. His greatest ambition is to raise his son to be a much better person than himself and to see Liverpool string a run of wins together. At least one of those, he believes, is possible. He can be contacted, when not bouncing around the world at 32,000 ft: nihon_news at yahoo dot com and his own personal homepage: www.philipblazdell.com.
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David Weber
Japan expert and resident pyramid climber…
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Dr. Zeus
Dr. Zeus is an artist and writer known during waking hours as Harold Poskanzer. His travels have included a six-month journey from Bali to Amsterdam and a nine-month drive around North America, sleeping in the back of a Toyota Pickup. He has since settled down in Palo Alto, California, where he earns money as a software engineer and enjoys time with his wife and two children.
Vicki Flier
Vicki Flier is the USA-born founder/president of Highroad Presentations. She provides customized, real-world training programs in intercultural communication, multicultural team building and international business skills to corporations, aid organizations and educators. In the past, Vicki has lived in Nepal and worked in Germany, India and Thailand. She has traveled in several countries including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, Greece, Israel, Jordan, and Mexico. She developed and facilitated a conversational English language program for the medical staff at the government psychiatric hospital of Bangkok, Thailand, and served as a volunteer at their affiliated low-income clinic. She taught creative writing and English grammar for 1 year at a private school in Pokhara, Nepal. In her several months in Thailand and India, Vicki worked in a library, administered first aid, proofed English correspondence for businesses, tutored young children, served as a caregiver to a terminally ill Indian patient and did many other odd jobs around Asia. She also developed a knack for riding camels across the Thar desert and enduring Indian train rides exceeding 55 hours at a time.
Website: www.highroaders.com
E-mail: vflier@mindspring.com
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Aoife Hegarty
Aoife’s first trip was at the age of 19, in the form of the ever popular Interrail (Eurail) taking in France,Italy,Greece and Slovenia. During the next five years, while planning and saving for her Round-the-World trip, she had several little travel ‘fixes’ which took the form of 3-4 week holidays: Hamburg to Amsterdam, Warsaw to Budapest, Zagreb to Bucharest.
In 1999 she started an 18 month trip which took in East Africa, India, south East Asia, Austrailia, New Zealand and the south Pacific, and the west coast of the US. During her trip she kept a web diary mainly for friends and family, which awakened an interest in travel and observational writing. She returned to her native Irel! and broke but happy in early 2001 and after spending some years in Switzerland, she now lives and works in Rwanda.
Travel Philosophy
“I’ve often thought that my travel bug had no beginning, it was a desire as old as
myself. As i prepared for my RTW trip, the resounding question from friends and family was “when did you decide to go travelling?”. It was a question for which i had no answer. It was a question for which i had no understanding. There never was a decision, there was only a burning need, bigger than anything else, a compulsion, bigger than me. My mother confirmed that I had always been crazy about travelling, to the extent that as a child, when we would go on family holidays they could not tell me in advance because i would routinely and without fail make myself sick with excitement…”
Quote: “I’m not old, I just have a lot of mileage!” :)
www.aoifehegarty.com
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Carlos Quantos
Quite simply, I am known by those that I defended when the Norwegians
seized La Paz, my hometown, in 1983. On that day I entered the capitol
building via an underground sewer system, killing many and sparing few
with my bare hands, climbed the flagpole, ripped down the Norwegian flag,
and replaced it with the skin of the fallen Norwegian emperor, General
Gerhard Reinke, freeing my fellow Mexicans from a 50 year Norwegian inquisition
in Bolivia consisting of slavery, murder and even forgery!
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Cam Jeffery
Cam Jeffery
Originally from Perth, Australia, Cam spent several
years travelling and working as a journalist in North
America and Europe. During those years, he also
contributed to Rough Guides to the USA, Europe and
Germany. In 1999, he moved permanently to Germany
where he worked as a copywriter and translator and
continued to freelance articles when inspired. He has
published stories with the Sunday Telegraph, the Globe
and Mail in Toronto, and the West Australian in Perth.
His first novel, The Bicycle Teacher, is now available
under the Janus Books imprint and can be ordered at
www.amazon.co.uk
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Howard Gethin
Howard Gethin, Editor
Bio: Born in Bristol, UK, in 1966, Howard’s wanderings began when his parents emigrated to Australia in 1974. Following a short and unsuccessful attempt at flying helicopters in the Royal Navy, Howard fled to Pakistan, and made his first third-world trip, from Rawalpindi to Hong Kong, via central China. Keen to repeat the experience, and see Tibet, Howard and a friend set off on mountain bikes in 1992, and travelled from Islamabad to Nepal, via Kashgar, Western Tibet, and Lhasa.
Now resident in Moscow, Howard works as an editor and still makes occasional forays into places where men carry guns and mountains are nearby.
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Colin Todhunter
Colin Todhunter was born in Liverpool, England and has
spent the majority of the last eight years in India. His book,
Chasing Rainbows in Chennai, was published in 2003 and reached
No.3 in the bestseller list of India’s largest bookstore, Landmark.
He followed up the book with a series of articles for the travel
section of the New Sunday Express (the weekend edition of the New Indian Express).
His travel articles have also been published in the US based socio-political magazine Newtopia, the Chennai based women’s magazine Eve’s Touch, Fitness First Magazine in the UK, and in the New Indian Express. Before branching into travel writing he wrote on a range of social issues, including disability rights, community development, healthcare and ageism. He has been published in the academic journals Disability and Society, Social Research Update, the Qualitative European Drug Research Journal, and in Clinical Medicine and Health Research.
Colin is also a contributing author of the textbook The A to Z of Social Research.
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Aaron Rockett
Aaron Rockett is a Washington DC filmmaker and co-founder of www.thefullmonte.com. With his roots in journalism, Aaron’s travels through southern Africa, Cuba, Mexico, and the British Isles inspired many of his articles.
In DC Aaron worked at the Center for Defense Information (CDI) before taking a job at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, a nightly news program broadcast nationally on PBS. Leaving The NewsHour to pursue several documentary projects, Aaron wrote and produced the documentary, NOT FOR BROADCAST: AT WHAT COST?, a film on CODEPINK, an anti-war group that traveled to Iraq. Aaron also wrote and produced 90 MILES APART, a story on Cuban dissidents jailed by Fidel Castro. Tr! aveling to Afghanistan, Aaron served as Production Coordinator on, STILL FIGHTING, a documentary following the only woman, Massouda Jalal, running for president.
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Brian Maude
Brian Maude hails from Calgary and can most likely be found leading wilderness tours in the backwoods of Canada’s great north. Or else on the beaches of Costa Rica getting his dose of surf.
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Samantha Stokell
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Nathalie Jordi
Nathalie Jordi is a twenty-something year-old Swiss-Belgian who grew up in Miami and loves to eat. After spending four years at college in Providence, Rhode Island, she resolved never to spend a cold winter again and moved to southern Italy to help open a cooking school in Puglia. Unfortunately, the tourist season ended and she was left no choice but to move north—to Belgium to interview a series of farmers and artisans, and eventually, to London, where she now works as a cheesemonger. She’s still waiting for the spring. You can read about her peripatetic pursuit of good food on cabbagesandkings.typepad.com
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Bob Wells
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Kinga Freespirit
This is a big and exciting world we live in.
And we’ve decided to see it.
Before we met, we were already dreaming about travelling.
Kinga’s plan was to join bicycle Peace Ride around the world.
Chopin wanted to go, with no plans except a general idea – around the world, stopping here and there to work a bit, and… travel on.
After we met each other we had to find a middle way…
There are many ways of travelling
- we have chosen the one we know the best
and trust that if we really want to,
we can Hitch-hike the World.
Instead of planning much we let events just happen and let the road take us through new places, countries and adventures.
And the most beautiful thing about it is not being in a hurry and enjoying the journey because there is no destination
Kinga and Chopin have been hitchhiking the world now for five years – You can read about it in Kinga’s book "Led by Destiny".
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This is a big and exciting world we live in.
And we’ve decided to see it.
Before we met, we were already dreaming about travelling.
Kinga’s plan was to join bicycle Peace Ride around the world.
Chopin wanted to go, with no plans except a general idea – around the world, stopping here and there to work a bit, and… travel on.
After we met each other we had to find a middle way…
There are many ways of travelling
- we have chosen the one we know the best
and trust that if we really want to,
we can Hitch-hike the World.
Instead of planning much we let events just happen and let the road take us through new places, countries and adventures.
And the most beautiful thing about it is not being in a hurry and enjoying the journey because there is no destination
Kinga and Chopin have been hitchhiking the world now for five years – You can read about it in Kinga’s book "Led by Destiny".
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This is a big and exciting world we live in.
And we’ve decided to see it.
Before we met, we were already dreaming about travelling.
Kinga’s plan was to join bicycle Peace Ride around the world.
Chopin wanted to go, with no plans except a general idea – around the world, stopping here and there to work a bit, and… travel on.
After we met each other we had to find a middle way…
There are many ways of travelling
- we have chosen the one we know the best
and trust that if we really want to,
we can Hitch-hike the World.
Instead of planning much we let events just happen and let the road take us through new places, countries and adventures.
And the most beautiful thing about it is not being in a hurry and enjoying the journey because there is no destination
Kinga and Chopin have been hitchhiking the world now for five years – You can read about it in Kinga’s book "Led by Destiny".
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This is a big and exciting world we live in.
And we’ve decided to see it.
Before we met, we were already dreaming about travelling.
Kinga’s plan was to join bicycle Peace Ride around the world.
Chopin wanted to go, with no plans except a general idea – around the world, stopping here and there to work a bit, and… travel on.
After we met each other we had to find a middle way…
There are many ways of travelling
- we have chosen the one we know the best
and trust that if we really want to,
we can Hitch-hike the World.
Instead of planning much we let events just happen and let the road take us through new places, countries and adventures.
And the most beautiful thing about it is not being in a hurry and enjoying the journey because there is no destination
Kinga and Chopin have been hitchhiking the world now for five years – You can read about it in Kinga’s book "Led by Destiny".
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Narendra Sethia
Narendra Sethia was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1956, the son of an Indian jute merchant and his English wife.
Expelled from draconian preparatory and public schools in Britain, he spent time on a freighter in the Congo and Angola, before joining the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth as a Midshipman.
After service in a mine-hunter, a frigate and an aircraft carrier, he qualified as a submariner, was promoted to Lieutenant and, after wrongful arrest for vagrancy in St James’s Park, London, in August 1980, saw active service in the Malvinas (Falklands) War in 1982, when he served as a watch-keeping Officer on board HMS Conqueror, the nuclear-powered submarine which torpedoed and sank the Argentinean cruiser General Belgrano. Fortunately, the only casualty on board the submarine was a Petty Officer Stores Accountant who broke a collar bone when he fell out of his bed one morning.
He resigned from the Navy in July 1982 and he and a friend sailed across the Atlantic in a fat, slow, 31-foot wooden sloop, arriving in Barbados at the end of that year. After 4 months of sailing the islands of the Eastern Caribbean, sustaining a living by selling cheap, unpleasant wines to luxury yachts, he reached St Lucia where he obtained work, first as a yacht Captain and later as Managing Director of a yacht charter company.
Married in 1987, later that year he won what was at that time the third largest libel award in Britain, at the end of a much-publicised litigation against a leading UK newspaper which had falsely suggested that he had absconded with the logbook from the submarine Conqueror. He added to this award, settlements from two other leading newspapers and also from the BBC, and then divorced his wife.
Leaving St Lucia aboard his new yacht in August 1989, he was promptly ship-wrecked in the American Virgin Islands during Hurricane Hugo, one of the most devastating Caribbean hurricanes on record.
Exchanging yachts with a friend, he then spent a year sailing the West Indian islands on a 28-foot steel cutter, and arrived, penniless, in Venezuela, early in 1991. Here, he acquired an elderly jeep which he drove 15,000 miles from the Andes to the Orinoco, operating an illicit taxi service for visiting tourists.
Selling his yacht in January 1992, he went to Barbados to buy his mother a new roof for her house, and then continued to India where he bought large quantities of silk shirts and silver jewellery which he then peddled on the streets of London and Hamburg.
In September 1992 he went to the USA to run the reservations office of the same charter company that he had previously managed in St Lucia. Falling out with his corpulent boss in 1996, he went to work with Mary Barnard at Barefoot Yacht Charters in St Vincent and the Grenadines which is where he has finally put down his roots and bought his first home.
In September 2000, he flew to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he stayed with a former Commander from the Belgrano, Nestor Cenci, universally known as “Coco” and he also met with the Belgrano’s former Captain Hector Bonzo. These extraordinary meetings in which the former enemies were able to shake hands, left a deep impression on him and enabled him to put certain ghosts to rest.
He lives with 3 dogs and innumerable lizards.
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Justin Pushman
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Dean Barrett
Dean Barrett is an author, playwright and master sinologist. His homepage can be found here:
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James Dorsey
James Dorsey is an artist, writer, and photographer who has traveled extensively in 29 countries. He has made seven extended trips through Asia.
He is a frequent contributor to the Christian Science Monitor, and has had articles in Conde Nast Traveller UK, California Wild, Sea Kayaker, Go World Travel, Wavelength and Outdoor Japan magazines plus both the China and Alaska books of the TravelersTales series and the Palisades Post Newspaper.
He has kayaked, canoed or sailed the rim of fire from Southern Alaska to the tip of Baja, plus the Sea of Cortez to study cetaceans.
His photographs have been featured on the websites of the National Wildlife Federation, International Cetacean Society, and Kodak International as their “Photo of the day,” and shown on the Times Square Jumbotron screen outside the Kodak Theater in New York.
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Chris Parrish
My age 57
My profession: Owner of small woodworking business and aspiring writer.
I left Sussex University, Brighton, England in 1970 to travel the world. Travelled through Europe in the early 1970’s, settling in Stockholm in 1973 long enough to save for a big journey to the Solomon Islands in April 1974. I have lived, worked and travelled in Sweden for 9 years and the Solomon Islands for one year. Travelled in Australia, Malaysia and Thailand in the mid nineteen-seventies.
I have worked as a teacher in Adult Education in Sweden, was a classical guitar maker and later started a small woodworking business in England. Studied with the Open University in England from 1999, and hold a BScHons in Technology, and Diploma in Design/Innovation. Married to Kajsa (Swedish and in the story) since 1973. Have three children and live in Stroud, Glos.
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J. Sim
J.Sim, aka JamJam, is a wharf rat born and bred who went on to become a soldier, teacher, financial and media analyst. He has travelled in six continents, including a return overland trip across Asia with only two tapes in his walkman – Trainspotting and Astrud Gilberto, which explains why he is slightly unhinged and is allergic to bossa nova.
JamJam is incapable of patience, singing in tune or moderation in any aspect of life. But he more than makes up for it by being an accomplished tapas cook and having very elegant fingers.
His ideal island paradise has Andaman beaches, Himalayan hills, Spanish lasses, Californian grub, Celtic craic and Hawaiian weather.
Steven Jarvis
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Traveling Prophet / Self-proclaimed Genius
Steven Jarvis wishes not to boast about the many accomplishments in his life, but he will.
At the fragile age of 16, a man came to Steven telling him about the travel gods and their forbidden fruit. So with a Journal and a Gun, he went forth to taste the ‘Forbidden fruit’ and capture these fruit to lavish them unto the people.
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Tariq El Kashef
Writer, photographer, tour leader and all round travel nut.
Find out more or contact: Tariqelkashef@yahoo.com
www.soultravel.co.uk
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Paul Jeffrey
Paul Jeffrey was born in a thunderstorm in 1968 to a mum and a dad. He now lives somewhere in London doing bits and bobs and popping off occasionally.
You can reach him at: paul@stylusmedia.com.
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Cam Christie
Dr. Scam Christie has traveled throughout Southeast Asia and South America on an anthopological quest to know the world. He is currently somewhere in the Amazon…
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Robyn Leslie
I am a South African, which means I like sunshine and sticky-tape coins together so no-one knows I have money in my pocket. An environmental scientist by qualification, I studied at the University of Cape Town. My years there taught me about the grand narratives of communism, neo-liberalism and post-modernism, and how shitty people can be when they can’t find a spot to park their car. After that I needed a break and went off to South America, where I lived and worked for a year. Now I am freelancing as a writer and holding out for a job that combines a morally specific mission with valuable, practical development goals. With a salary. Hmmm.
By the way, I was just being snarky before. South Africa is totally safe. Really. Come and visit.
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Who is Road Junky?
Road Junky is something different – an in your face description of the world – a way out – guides to alternative living – extreme travel tales…
If you don’t have the courage to live out these experiences why not read about the ones who do?
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Bruce Northam
BRUCE NORTHAM is an independent travel journalist and author who has journeyed through more than 100 countries on seven continents. Northam speaks on freestyle travel via the Lordly & Dame speaker’s bureau at universities, corporate events and Governor’s Conferences on Tourism.
He’s the writer-at-large and travel columnist for The Improper Magazine, a New York-based monthly providing the “view askew” for 485,000 readers from Manhattan to Montauk; bulk of readers reside in the Hamptons and Manhattan. The former writer-at-large for Blue Magazine, Northam also contributes to National Geographic Traveler and Men’s Edge. He’s been anthologized in Travelers’ Tales and Chicken Soup for the Soul.
His third book, Globetrotter Dogma: 100 Canons for Escaping the Rat Race & Exploring the World, was cited by National Geographic Adventure as one of “Ten better choices: insightful travelogues that will inspire rather than dictate.” (Geographic’s list included The Travels of Marco Polo, by Marco Polo). He’s also the author of The Frugal Globetrotter, and In Search of Adventure: A Wild Travel Anthology.
Northam’s June 06 NEW YORK DETOUR is a meandering, 2000-mile odyssey from Niagara Falls to Montauk that’s sponsored by I LOVE NEW YORK and reinventing freestyle travel … because America needs to be celebrated, again. Departing Niagara Falls on June 7 and wandering overland to Montauk on June 29, Northam will utilize all modes of transport through scenic countryside, backroad villages, waterways, offbeat landmarks and cities, while unearthing unsung heroes of all ages. Accommodations include camping, shacking with locals, and five-star luxury. Visit http://www.iloveny.com for details.
His forthcoming book is 100 ROUTES TO WISDOM: A Globetrotter’s Discovery of Life Lessons in 100 Countries. (Media catchphrase: Author journeys through 100 countries in search of the paths to happiness.)
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Jim Klee
Jim Klee prefers to remain an enigma and reveal little about himself. One look at his mangled passport tells you all you need to know. He believes travel to be a form of therapy from modern civilization’s madness. Jim has hitched, flown, ridden, been bamboozled, and drifted through countries on five continents.
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