Mike Brockie
Feral Mike
Mike Brockie
A LATTE SIPPING, PONSONBY DWELLER GOES ADVENTURING BY BICYCLE
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THE BIG PLAN
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I made a solo cycle ride from one end of New Zealand to the other over the southern summer - 2009/10. I kept off the busy highways as much as possible, and even managed a few 4WD tracks in some of the more remote corners of the country. I finished on 9 April 2010 and returned home to Auckland by train from Christchurch (the train, though slow, is a convenient way of transporting a bike).
CHARITY FUNDRAISER
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My efforts at fundraising for my favourite charity Oxfam were disappointing, but I am incredibly grateful to those who did donate - some with significant amounts of money. To those people, again a big thank you.
If you have just discovered my blog and enjoy reading it, there is still time to make a donation. I believe Oxfam does an outstanding job providing the essentials for people less fortunate than the rest of us - things like providing clean drinking water and sanitation and helping people to help themselves.
If you are prepared to help Oxfam in its work, copy and paste their address into your web browser and make a donation by credit card. Every dollar helps. Here's their address.
http://www.oxfam.org.nz/events/teams.asp?a=show_team_pages&eventid=20&teamid=3838
AND FINALLY ...
A few lines from a poem that sums up my attitude towards this journey:
Give to me the life I love,
Let the lave go by me,
Give the jolly heaven above
And the by-way nigh me.
Bed in the bush with stars to see -
Bread I dip in the river -
Theres the life for a man like me,
Theres the life forever.
R. L. Stevenson