We have finished our cycling trip, and are unfortunately very close to finishing our savings, so we are onto the next phase our lives: "Let's save some more money, so that we can do that again!" The trip ended up being about 4 months long, and we covered somewhere around 4500 kilometres (if you work in miles, than I don't give a damn). We managed to cover 9 countries (someday soon you will be able to read about them on the map below) and almost as many languages.

Now we've settled in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and are hopefully going to see those pounds roll into the bank account soon. But of course, that hasn't happened yet. We don't have a bank account. You need to show something official, proving that you have an address. What sort of official? It seems that a bank statement, or a rent agreement, or a utility bill would do. Pretty much anything that requires a bank account before you can get one. Catch 22 I guess. But anyway, after a quick stint working at a bar (2 nights), I landed a job at a local bike shop, so now my mechanical skills are creating nightmares for the cyclists of Scotland. That definitely keeps me busy.

I wrote the above paragraph back in October, 2003. Oh, how things have changed. Now, I live back home in New Zealand, I have a real job, and I no longer living out of a pair of panniers. It is a nice change, but I know I'll have to travel again. The urge is too strong, and there is so much more of the world still to see.

Before you go clicking on all those links around here, I think it is only fair to warn you: they don't all work. My computer skills aren't quite that quick, so the pages aren't all like they should be. Now that I have my own computer again, and I have all the photos developed (I even got them on those fan-dangled CD thinges), I don't have much of an excuse for the state of this site. But I'm over it. It isn't perfect, but I will get there some day....

Click here to find out what we thought of the stuff we brought along with us. And what we should have taken....

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