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"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live." ~ Mark Twain
Ian Hibell — A man who lived by the bicycle and died by the bicycle.
Here's a bicycle tourer that makes me feel like I should take the training wheels off my bike. Ian traveled 10 times further than what I did, about the equivalent of 10 times around the equator over his 40-year travel career. Apparently he was the first man to ride from the top of the Americas to the bottom, including the Darien Gap in Panama, which is a swamp land full of banana boats and drug smugglers. He did a lot of truly amazing things, but was unfortunately killed last August by a hit and run accident in Greece. Read a tear-jerker about Ian in the Economist. Click here.(10-05-2008)
Check back next week for another amazing adventure
Scott Stoll's Bicycle Ride Around the World
4 years, 41,444 Kilometers (25,752 miles), 50 Countries,
6 Continents and 4 moments of enlightenment
I
cycled every inch to meet my goal of circumnavigating the globe
under my own steam. (The equatorial circumference of the planet
is 40,077 KM.) And, that’s not including my 10,609-Kilometer
warm-up ride across the USA from border to border and coast to coast. Click here to view the map.
Everyone needs a vacation, even individuals living
on home
business income. However, a few things need to be emphasised
upon, particularly updating one's medical
insurance, which is as important as confirming airline
tickets. This is because if an emergency does rise in foreign
land, huge medical bills being paid through visa
cards may cause bad
credit mortgage.
Everyone needs a vacation, even individuals living
on 
