I enjoyed reading about people splashing through leech-filled swamps and thundering down mountainsides so hard that their femurs cracked. I was fascinated by stories of blisters that bled through shoes, men and women who grew delirious with
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“Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.”
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“There lives and there leaps in me A love of the lowly things of earth, And a passion to be free. To pitch my tent with no prosy plan, To range and to change at will, To mock at the mastership of man, To seek Adventure’s thrill, Carefree to be, as a bird that sings, To go my own sweet way. Robert Service”
― Moods of Future Joys: Around the World by Bike Part One: From England to South Africa
― Moods of Future Joys: Around the World by Bike Part One: From England to South Africa
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