Today I received the welcome and fearfully-awaited news that I have passed my St John First Aid course exam! I’m very happy to now be certified. Let’s hope I never have to use any of it and if I do, then I remember what to do …. Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/Wheel2Wheelchannel Join us on …
It was pretty cool today when Nathan King presented me with my Wheel2Wheel business card. All of a sudden our little philanthropic exploration started to feel more real. Of course in Hong Kong, like the rest of Asia, you are nobody unless you have a business card! So even though we are motorbike adventurers whose …
Assuming the Team departs Hong Kong on 1 March 2011, there is now 400 days remaining to make all the necessary preparations. Whilst that may seem a long time, there are a staggering numbers of things to organise during these 400 days. In fact, I’m already beginning to get a sense that we are running …
Wheel2Wheel is an independent non-profit organisation created by Morgan Parker to raise awareness and facilitate financial assistance to brilliant yet under-recognised charitable organisations throughout Australasia. Through its innovative approach of staging entertaining motorcycle expeditions, Wheel2Wheel is able to create exceptional awareness for selected humanitarian causes by weaving them into popular adventure-travel television documentary series. Wheel2Wheel …
After 30 hours of theory and practical classroom work over the last four days, I have now completed the St. John Ambulance First Aid Course (http://www.stjohn.org.hk/en/index.shtml). What an awesome experience! Apart from meeting some nice people in the class, I feel blessed to have learnt so much valuable, life-saving information. I really got into every aspect …
Today we spoke of the importance of getting some “on the road” time. We agreed we would organise a road trip for when we are all in Australia next. We’ll most likely leave from Morgan’s house in Noosa and make our way south. I’m pretty excited about the ride as it will really give us …
Today I spent two hours with Zorica King learning the basics of Krav Maga. Wow, it was so awesome. I thought I was reasonably fit, but now I really know how much work I have to do to get into shape. Even though it’s only my first session I can already tell these combat …
Every time I’ve spoken to someone in the last 6 months about travelling through south-east Asia on a motorbike, their routine response is “ooh, you’d better be careful, lots of nasty gangs and militia out there”. So I started doing some research recently to see whether the threat of danger for the Wheel2Wheel team is …
I spoke to my cousin today, who is an avid road traveller in Australia, about some of the possible routes from Darwin to Brisbane. She was a terrific source of information as she had travelled many of the major routes. Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/Wheel2Wheelchannel Join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wheel2wheel Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wheel2wheelteam
Today was freaky, there I am sitting at work, in what I thought was going to be another routine HR-arranged corporate insurance meeting when the guys from International SOS (www.internationalsos.com) walked through the door. We were scheduled to receive a presentation from SOS regarding a corporate subscription service they provide for companies who have employees …