olddfatbulldog

He has some.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...ck=1&cset=true

PS: If this was already posted, blow me. I don't surf the lounge much anymore.

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sNoW PIrAnHa

Not signing up. tl;dr, copy paste, or diff link

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olddfatbulldog

Briton Jason Lewis circles the globe using only human power, a 46,000-mile odyssey that took 13 years.
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 7, 2007
GREENWICH, ENGLAND -- He was a young man then. Fresh out of the University of London, Jason Lewis was running his own window-cleaning business and playing in a grunge rock band when his friend Stevie Smith was struck by the terrifying thought that the prime of his life would turn out to be less than it should.

"What I see, day after day, are captured lives, half-lives, dedicated to a mirage of fullness that never comes," Smith would explain later. "My greatest fear is of mediocrity and of a slow, unremarkable acquiescence to society."


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Come with me around the world, Smith told Lewis. We'll circumvent the globe like Magellan did riding the wind, but we'll do it under our own power: by bicycle, pedal boat, kayak, skates and our own remarkable feet.

"When do we start?" Lewis replied.

The answer to that question was July 12, 1994.

One of them finished Saturday, more than 13 years later, but it wasn't Smith.

Leather-faced, thin, weeping, and now 40, Lewis pedaled his boat up the River Thames to the prime meridian here -- 46,405 miles later, and exactly to the spot where he and Smith had started. Smith, who dropped out five years into the journey, stood back quietly among the cheering spectators, jostled by the television camera crews.

Along the way, Lewis capsized in two oceans, was chased by a 17-foot crocodile in Australia, suffered from two bouts of malaria, underwent surgery for two hernias, nearly died of blood poisoning 1,300 miles out to sea from Hawaii, stumbled upon a civil war in the Solomon Islands, suffered acute altitude sickness while biking over the Himalayas, got hit by a car and sustained fractures to both legs in Colorado, was robbed at the point of a machete in Sumatra and arrested as a spy in Egypt.

He sold T-shirts and worked odd jobs to raise money, and then kept going. He fell in love, but said goodbye and kept going.

"Thirteen years, coming to an end. It's been a big, long journey. It's good to be back," Lewis said simply as he pushed his 26-foot-long pedal boat, now resting on a trailer, across the famous cobblestone courtyard outside the Greenwich Royal Observatory.

Though it is still in dispute, Lewis and his Expedition 360 team believe it to be the first true human-powered circumnavigation of the globe, a voyage that spanned 37 countries both north and south of the equator and ended at Greenwich, 0 degree longitude, where Earth's time zones begin.

Standing opposite Prince Richard, the Duke of Gloucester, a patron of the voyage who had christened the boat Moksha (Sanskrit for Freedom) Lewis was clad in canvas sandals, bicycle shorts and an old orange windbreaker.

"It gives me great pleasure to inform you," Lewis declared, holding aloft a magnum of Taittinger champagne, "that as of this moment, the world has been circumnavigated using only human power."

Before Lewis left Greenwich 13 years, 2 months and 23 days ago, he had spent a grand total of three days crewing on a sailboat and had ridden no more than three miles at a time on a bicycle.

With Smith, he crossed the English Channel, bicycled to the Portuguese coast; spent 111 days crossing the Atlantic to Miami in the pedal boat (at a speed of 2 to 4 knots) and spent a year rollerblading across the United States, including several months in Colorado recuperating from the car accident.

They set off early in 1997 by bicycle for South America, intending to cross from Peru to Australia. They made it as far as Honduras, covering 3,500 miles in seven months by bike and kayak, but unfavorable El Niño currents and winds forced them to reverse and go thousands of miles north to San Francisco. They decided to cross the Pacific near the equator instead, with a stop in Hawaii.

It was in Hawaii, already five years into the journey, that a no-longer-aching-for-adventure Smith threw in the towel.

Lewis kept going. Later he would bring in occasional crew members on various legs to help, but he pedaled alone for 72 days across the Pacific.

"I just let the boat drift when I was sleeping," he said, which caused a problem when he ran into countercurrents near the equator.

"I'd pedal in the day and go to sleep, and wake up in the same space where I started the previous day," he said. "That was probably the most demoralizing part of the whole expedition."

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sNoW PIrAnHa

Wow. Thats insane.

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sumsimpleracer

geebus, a pedal boat across the oceans....that's ridiculous. Sounds like something i'd love to do, but that's so much money needed

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Aggression

A pedal boat over the ocean sounds scary as hell

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doublethreatguy

Holy hell, that's crazy. And why did Smith drop out? It was his idea in the first place - he left his friend hanging. At least he finished it, though. Props, props.

big_balla

72 days paddling across the ocean... alone. Wow....

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D_Smalls

hm, a canadian guy did a similar thing, biked across north america, paddled the bearing straight, biked through russia into europe and then rowed across the atlantic.
Ecological pair row across Atlantic

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martix_agent

this guy may have heart, but he's got no brains at all.

What sort of person throws his entire life away at age 27 and does something like this?

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doublethreatguy

He probably had nothing to loose. Maybe he had no wife, no kids, no family.

bobide

I wish the article had covered a lot more. Very little information about the whole trip.

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doublethreatguy

I wish he did a journal. I would read it.

zerpbrandon

Arent there ginormous waves in the middle of the ocean??

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ComradeMolyneux

No. You need to take a physics or oceanography class.

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What about sea Monsters??

BlueShox

14 years of his life dedicated and he gets glory in the form of an internet article on the LA times.


Hats off to you, sir...

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sumsimpleracer

google, theres plenty more articles out there

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sNoW PIrAnHa

Must've been boring after he ran out of lubriderm and kleenex.

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mspainter

I wonder how he ate.

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