Author: Tim Moss
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Review of Amazon Kindle for Expeditions and Travel
In addition to its obvious use for reading, there is one key feature of the Amazon Kindle that can make it an awesome supplement for expeditions and travel: unlimited free 3G roaming. They also have some other useful attributes for life on the road as well as some flaws. I have had my Kindle for…
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This Life of Uncertainty and Wandering
In Patagonia, Laura and I each kept a diary. Instead of just documenting the events of the day, we took the opportunity to write a brief reflection/pondering around an idea that the journey had sparked. We wrote a couple of entries before we departed for which the brief was to write 200 words on the…
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What It’s Like
The wind buffets me from behind and I continue to stumble forward in the heat. Twenty kilograms of rucksack crush down on each shoulder. It is not an unbearable weight but it means that everything requires extra effort. Everything, like, thinking, smiling, suppressing sobs and trying not to be sick. I lean forward to transfer…
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Back from South America
I’ve just got back from Patagonia. The normal blogging schedule will now resume. In a nutshell down south, we spent close to a week making our way to the Pacific coast, followed by a week and a half of hard walking, then about the same amount of time doing some more relaxed exploration. Getting to…
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Across the Waste Lands
The route we have followed so far has either been popular – in the case of the last few days through the mountains – or at least a necessary leg of a journey – in the case of our march to Villa O´Higgins. But ask anyone about the territory to the east and you get…
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South through the Mountains
Our first deadline had been met – the ferry across the fjord – but another loomed large: another ferry departing in two days´time. This one was south across a lake that was difficult to get round without crossing borders and several hundred miles´detour. It also only ran twice a week which meant either marching close…
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Journey to the Coast
We always knew it would take a long time to get there. It was a tiny, remote port wedged between the sea, the Argentinian border and two ice caps. It took us three planes, five buses, four hitch hikes and a few stretches of walking over five days but we made it to Puerto Yungay…
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Patagonia Plan
In a few hours’ time, Laura and I will be boarding a flight to the start of an expedition. The plan is to walk across Patagonia. We will begin our trip in South America by spending New Year’s Eve on the floor of Buenos Aires airport awaiting an early morning flight. I’m not sure if…
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Couch Surfing
I suspect that many of you will already be aware of the website CouchSurfing.org or can at least guess at the principle. It’s a network of people all over the world who are willing to offer cups of tea, showers and/or couches on which to crash. It operates entirely without the use of money –…
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Great Expeditions Don’t Make Great People
Just because someone has achieved great expedition feats it does not automatically make them a great person. It is quite common to describe someone who has completed a great expedition as “an amazing person” or similar. I would dispute that assumption. Such achievements should be rightly recognised and hailed for what they are: feats of…
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Wild Swimming Is Not A Sport
‘My friend does that’, shouted down the lady from the side of her boat as my now wife and I swam past in the river below. ‘It’s that “Wild Swimming” thing, isn’t it?’. I smiled and said Yes but something about what she said irked me. She was friendly enough and she was right about…