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Starting at the Prime Meridian at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, United Kingdom on April 25th, 2002 I cycled to the English port of Dover. Thanks to Bob Frost and the SV Contessa Fontana I sailed across the English Channel to begin crossing continents by bicycle.
After cycling across Northern France I joined the excellent Danube Bicycle Path from the beginning of Europe's longest river at DonauEschingen, Germany. I followed the river and the path to Austria, briefly diverting into Slovakia then heading south through Hungary. Now known as Serbia and Montenegro, Yugoslavia as it was then, followed next. Continuing east through Bulgaria the road led to Turkey and its Bosphorus Strait finishing my European continental crossing and now heading through the Middle East and Asia.
Farther into the east was Iran then Pakistan where some strife meant I was evacuated from potential trouble, thanks to Peter and Tobias. The road continued into India then Nepal. Heading north across the 'Roof of the World' - Tibet and beyond to the roads of Yunnan, then Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.
To catch a yacht I flew from Malaysia. In port at Bali, Indonesia was the SV Kijana and skipper Michael Barrett. Through the seas of Indonesia and East Timor I sailed to Australia to ride the top half of the east coast. Then across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand to see family and friends then across the Pacific Ocean to Canada.
Once I reached Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and the Atlantic I flew to Scotland with Zoom Airlines to finish back where I started, the Prime Meridian in London, England Saturday 16th October 2004.
| 36,110 | km cycled | |
| 3,700 | km sailed (2,000 nautical miles) | |
| 950 | km on a truck (to escape a hot spot - 400km under armed guard) | |
| 0 | .06 km on a cable ferry (to escape crocodiles) | |
| 20,699 | km flown (to escape spending even more than the 6 months already spent waiting for yachts) | |
| Total distance = | 61,459 | .06 km |
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