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October 17, 2009 · Filed under Nicaragua 2009

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My Mission is to be the first person to travel by land and sea to every country in the world. First North and South America, then by yacht to Africa and Asia.

My Guinness Book of Records application!

Summary: Left England Mid Sept 07, one way to Toronto Canada with no intention of going back. I bought a minivan in Boston and drove down to Key West before turning West to California through the Southern States. After 3 months in the US I spent 14 months travelling through Mexico and living in San Cristobal de las Casas and another 6 months driving through Central America. After 2 and a half years of travel I'm nearly ready to reach my penultimate Continent, South America...
Current Location: Somewhere in Central America
Next Destination: South!
Countries visited : 9
Countries to go: 183!!
Miles Driven : 25,000
Times Stopped by the Police : 6
Money paid to the Police : $0
US Parking fines total : $700
Fines paid : $0
Total repair costs on Van : $150
Currently Reading: Poker Brain
What I've been doing...
- Sitting watching the sloths in our Avacado tree by the Carribean Ocean. Bliss.... 2010-07-11
- Will be watching the football in a German bar with 200 Germans!! Brave or stupid?? :p At least there won't be too many drunks at 8am... :( 2010-06-27
- Come on ENGLAND!!!!!!!! 2010-06-23
- WTF is wrong with this country? Yesterday the IMAX said the 4pm toy story was subbed. We get here... And it isn't! Get a friking website!! 2010-06-22
- Putting a security wall up in the back of the minivan so we can ship it to Columbia with most of our stuff. Power tools, yay!! :p 2010-06-10
- Its better to watch a great movie twice than a crap movie once. 2010-06-03
- You gotta love the beach.. but with 32 hours of non stop rain??? We changed rooms cos Mel thought the other was unsafe.. the road's a river! 2010-05-26
- We made the ferry to the Nicoya Pennisular with 3 mins to spare! Then it rained for 7 hours & the electricity stopped. But.... The beach! :) 2010-05-21
- Locked in the garden in only my underpants by a door slamming in the wind..... sigh 2010-05-10
- c'mon Costa Rica, ban cigarettes in public places already..... the guy isn't even smoking it!! 2010-05-07
- finally.... 5 years since it was broken on a plane to Thailand my backpacker guitar is finally fixed!! They very nearly did a great job too! 2010-05-04
- So long England for another 8 months.... back to the thrid world where people can't drive... or navigate.... 2010-04-26
- well it doesn't look like we'll be going back to Costa Rica on Tuesday thanks to the ash.... 2010-04-17
- Back in the UK after a great weekend in Sweden. Won't miss paying £19 for 2 1/2 hours parking in Stockholm though.... 2010-04-14
- after nearly 10 years I'm back in Sweden for a weekend.... Uppsala is cold and wet and my Swedish is extremely rusty!! 2010-04-09
- four days in London and then getting a flight somewhere else in Europe for 3 days..... how exciting!!! :) 2010-04-05
- yay, my Canon 7D arrived. Spent the afternoon up the moors trying to avoid the 2 degree rain, clicking at 8fps and having fun. Its a beauty! 2010-03-30
- Finally I get to go overnight on the canal barge!! How exciting!!! /snore :p 2010-03-26
- Costa rican beaurocracy is so f**king retarded sometimes. How can people be so incompetent for a living!?!? Grrrrrrr 2010-03-19
- Been trying to explain 'rounds' to Melissa. I don't think she Will Ever go to the pub now.... Colonials.... 2010-03-18
- More updates...
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My Mission is to be the first person to travel by land and sea to every country in the world. First North and South America, then by yacht to Africa and Asia.

My Guinness Book of Records application!

What I've been doing...

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Contact Info