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Report from Mumbai

October 31, 2010
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“Your ear, soap”
“Sorry?” I say
“Soap, in your ear, let me just..” and before I had processed what he said or what was going on with my ear (maybe I did have soap in my ear, having just showered to wash the day’s sweat and grim off me) the harmless looking gentleman began digging in my ear.
After being a little heat stroked from the bicycle, taxi, and motorcycle ride in the midday heat of Mumbai, I [...]

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Family Tragedy as Jure Robič killed in Traffic Accident

September 27, 2010
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photo of Jure Robič after winning the 2007 RAAM by Kayvz from Wikipedia english
The niche sport of ultra cycling has lost an icon, and tragically the Robič family has lost a second son in the same year.
Reports came out over the weekend that Jure Robič was killed when he collided head-on with a vehicle while on a training ride near his home in Slovenia.
My only experience of cycling in Slovenia was this summer on our [...]

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Amanda Lindhout hasn’t forgotten Somalia

May 16, 2010
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It was announced Friday that Amanda Lindhout has started the Global Enrichment Foundation (GEF). Here is the stated vision of GEF from their website launched this past weekend:
The Global Enrichment Foundation believes in developing strengths already within women to assist them in changing their lives. We believe that building stronger communities, cultivating leadership and promoting peace through education are goals which can be achieved though proper support. With the [...]

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Blogging Africa – Ory Okolloh and the Globe and Mail

May 9, 2010
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On Monday May 10, the Globe and Mail’s world news site will be guest edited by a Kenyan blogger named Ory Okolloh. In the Globe’s words…
Ms. Okolloh has been invited to edit our world site in order to share with readers a view of Africa and African news not normally seen in Canada — “The Africa You Don’t Know.” We want to present our readers with a full experience of what the average news day [...]

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Saimaluu Tash and Kyrgyzstan’s Future in Tourism

May 5, 2010
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Last week I posted the detailed reports from Slava on the situation currently unraveling in Kyrgyzstan. This post takes from those reports and adds in my personal experiences in Kyrgyzstan when I visited in 2007.
“Did you hear about Kyrgyzstan?” was the message that came across Skype from Slava Koshelev in Moscow. It was April 7, 2010 and almost three years since my time in Kyrgyzstan. Slava was the Kyrgyz tour operator that took me there. [...]

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A travel and news chronicle from the places my bicycle takes me. It’s not a cycling blog per se. It’s a record of things I encounter along the way – in my travels with Tour d’Afrique Ltd., and through my own experiences at home and abroad.
This is a personal blog and has no official affiliation with Tour d’Afrique Ltd. or anyone other than myself. The views and opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of anyone else.

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