Category: humour

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Parrot steals GoPro

Alex Verheul and her family had just finished their first tramping New Zealand’s Kepler Track.

The son put the GoPro on a railing — and the cheeky Kea took off with the camera. Happily, he quickly recovered it.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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A funny John Muir Trail Book

I read Almost Somewhere by Suzanne Roberts in advance of our upcoming JMT hike.

Day One, and already she was lying in her journal.

It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future.

But she never imagined that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts’s account of that hike. …

Amazon
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Straight Line Mission Across Wales

In the winter of 2018 and 2019, Tom Davies (aka GeoWizard) had the unlikely idea of crossing a country in a completely straight line.  …

Tom’s most viral video with almost 4 million views; everyone loves a wacky idea. …

Adventure Blog – The Geographical Genius Who Crosses Countries in Straight Lines

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (4 million views)