From A to B - literally.

Greetings.

Most of the great journeys of the world have been done - by Michael
Palin and others - with much greater budgets than I can muster. They
have crucially missed out the most talked-about journey of them all:
I'm going to travel from A to B!

A is a small cod-fishing village on an island just off Norway just
inside the Arctic circle. B is a small hamlet in Nebraska- about half
way across the USA from New York. The plan is: to cycle across Norway,
down Sweden, Denmark, Germany, through Belgium to France. I will get a
ferry to Dover, then cycle to Portsmouth, where I'll get a boat to New
York. from New York I'll head North West, into Canada, then West and
South through Detroit and Chicago and eventually down to B. About 6000
miles cycling in all. (3 times the distance of the Tour de France) I
plan to finish in early September.

I'm doing it to raise money for two charities (the British Red Cross
and Victim Support London) who are going to help me get press coverage
- not just here in the UK, but in each of the other 8 countries that I
will travel through.

In addition to the press coverage I am also launching a website in
February: www.fromatob.org.uk. It will featu a "donate here" page,
photos, links to sponsors, message boards, e-mail subscription
sign-up, news, maps, statistics, media clippings/links, and
competitions with prizes. This site will be advertised by over 40
students' unions websites in the UK, and will be advertised by each
time I get mentioned on Radio/TV/newspaper, other websites. I will
also get links to the website from cycling clubs across Europe and the
USA.

I am looking for sponsors to help me with the costs of the trip: I am
aiming to get much kit and travel for free, and get a very
reduced-price tandem - but total costs will hit just over £7000. I've
got £2000 so far - and I'm not sure I want to sell a kidney or rob
banks - so does anyone know of any good contacts to raise sponsorship?

I want to get all the costs sorted before I go, so all of the money I
raise can go straight to charity.

Like the best ideas - it's a dead simple one! If any one has any
ideas/comments/suggestions then please let me know! Cheers.

Paul Parry

Paul Parry wrote:

A is a small cod-fishing village on an island just off Norway just
inside the Arctic circle.

Actually it isn't A but Å (that should be an A with an o over it) which
is the last letter in the alphabet but can be asciised as Aa.

So really you are cycling from Aa to B.

...d

Paul Parry wrote:

Greetings.

Most of the great journeys of the world have been done - by Michael
Palin and others - with much greater budgets than I can muster. They
have crucially missed out the most talked-about journey of them all:
I'm going to travel from A to B!

A is a small cod-fishing village on an island just off Norway just
inside the Arctic circle. B is a small hamlet in Nebraska

My GPS lists a 'Bee' in Nebraska, but no town named 'B' - could you give a
more precise location for this 'small hamlet'?

Paul Parry wrote:
Most of the great journeys of the world have been done - by Michael
Palin and others - with much greater budgets than I can muster. They
have crucially missed out the most talked-about journey of them all:
I'm going to travel from A to B!

A is a small cod-fishing village on an island just off Norway just
inside the Arctic circle. B is a small hamlet in Nebraska- about half
way across the USA from New York. The plan is: to cycle across Norway,
down Sweden, Denmark, Germany, snip

Looks like an interesting trip up to this point but the subsequent plan
to travel by ship would be a big cheat. Why not make the entire trip by
human power?

This would mean rowing from the beginning island to the mainland. You
could, of course, row across the Atlantic but that is a boring trip that
has been done a number of times by others. Here is a more interesting
route.

After riding down to Germany, head east into Russia and take the road
that parallels the Trans Siberian Railway to Lake Baikal. There is a
truck road going northeast from there to Magadan, on the east coast of
Siberia.

There are trails going northeast from Magadan next to the Shelikhova
Gulf and across the base of the Kamchatka Peninsula to the town of
Anadyr on the Bering Sea. Next go by canoe to Providenya, Siberia, then
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska (in the middle of the Bering Sea), and on to
Nome, Alaska.

From Nome you could ride cross-country up the Yukon and Tanana River
Valleys to Manley Springs or you could cover this route by canoe. The
Iditerod Trail covers part of this route. From Manley Springs there is
a road to Fairbanks and via the Alaska Highway to the lower 48, taking
you to B.

Bon voyage!

-Les Earnest (who earlier explored part of this route and planned to
ride it until overtaken by advancing age and sensibility)

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Paul Parry wrote:
Most of the great journeys of the world have been done - by Michael
Palin and others - with much greater budgets than I can muster. They
have crucially missed out the most talked-about journey of them all:
I'm going to travel from A to B!

A is a small cod-fishing village on an island just off Norway just
inside the Arctic circle. B is a small hamlet in Nebraska- about half
way across the USA from New York. The plan is: to cycle across Norway,
down Sweden, Denmark, Germany, snip

Looks like an interesting trip up to this point but the subsequent plan
to travel by ship would be a big cheat. Why not make the entire trip by
human power?

You could probably rig up the bike to drive a propeller in the boat,
which would give you much more power and efficiency than rowing would.

.....

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If you're going into Canada and through Detroit, then you'll most likely be
going through Windsor Ontario Canada.. which is where I live!
If there's anything I can do, feel free to email me: home at
mikebeauchamp.com

Mike
http://mikebeauchamp.com


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Greetings.

Most of the great journeys of the world have been done - by Michael
Palin and others - with much greater budgets than I can muster. They
have crucially missed out the most talked-about journey of them all:
I'm going to travel from A to B!

A is a small cod-fishing village on an island just off Norway just
inside the Arctic circle. B is a small hamlet in Nebraska- about half
way across the USA from New York. The plan is: to cycle across Norway,
down Sweden, Denmark, Germany, through Belgium to France. I will get a
ferry to Dover, then cycle to Portsmouth, where I'll get a boat to New
York. from New York I'll head North West, into Canada, then West and
South through Detroit and Chicago and eventually down to B. About 6000
miles cycling in all. (3 times the distance of the Tour de France) I
plan to finish in early September.

I'm doing it to raise money for two charities (the British Red Cross
and Victim Support London) who are going to help me get press coverage
- not just here in the UK, but in each of the other 8 countries that I
will travel through.

In addition to the press coverage I am also launching a website in
February: www.fromatob.org.uk. It will featu a "donate here" page,
photos, links to sponsors, message boards, e-mail subscription
sign-up, news, maps, statistics, media clippings/links, and
competitions with prizes. This site will be advertised by over 40
students' unions websites in the UK, and will be advertised by each
time I get mentioned on Radio/TV/newspaper, other websites. I will
also get links to the website from cycling clubs across Europe and the
USA.

I am looking for sponsors to help me with the costs of the trip: I am
aiming to get much kit and travel for free, and get a very
reduced-price tandem - but total costs will hit just over £7000. I've
got £2000 so far - and I'm not sure I want to sell a kidney or rob
banks - so does anyone know of any good contacts to raise sponsorship?

I want to get all the costs sorted before I go, so all of the money I
raise can go straight to charity.

Like the best ideas - it's a dead simple one! If any one has any
ideas/comments/suggestions then please let me know! Cheers.

Paul Parry

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, David Martin wrote:

Paul Parry wrote:

A is a small cod-fishing village on an island just off Norway just
inside the Arctic circle.

Actually it isn't A but Å (that should be an A with an o over it) which
is the last letter in the alphabet but can be asciised as Aa.

There is also an Å in eastern Sweden, about 20 km east of Norrköping.

Tour report at:
"http://biketouring.eurotourism.net/tours/2000/2/"
or just the picture of the roadsign:
"http://biketouring.eurotourism.net/pics2000/2000_37_river.jpg"

"Å" means small river in Norwegian and Swedish. But Å is
the third-last letter of the Swedish alphabet, last in
the Norwegian/Danish alphabet!

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email:
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:40:05 GMT, David Dermott
may have said:

"Å" means small river in Norwegian and Swedish. But Å is
the third-last letter of the Swedish alphabet, last in
the Norwegian/Danish alphabet!

And in any event, in the USA, the diacritical marks mean "Americans
won't pronounce this correctly."

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Paul Parry said the following on 14/01/2004 20:26:

Greetings.

Most of the great journeys of the world have been done - by Michael
Palin and others - with much greater budgets than I can muster. They
have crucially missed out the most talked-about journey of them all:
I'm going to travel from A to B!

A is a small cod-fishing village on an island just off Norway just
inside the Arctic circle. B is a small hamlet in Nebraska- about half
way across the USA from New York. The plan is: to cycle across Norway,
down Sweden, Denmark, Germany, through Belgium to France. I will get a
ferry to Dover, then cycle to Portsmouth, where I'll get a boat to New
York. from New York I'll head North West, into Canada, then West and
South through Detroit and Chicago and eventually down to B. About 6000
miles cycling in all. (3 times the distance of the Tour de France) I
plan to finish in early September.

I'm doing it to raise money for two charities (the British Red Cross
and Victim Support London) who are going to help me get press coverage
- not just here in the UK, but in each of the other 8 countries that I
will travel through.

In addition to the press coverage I am also launching a website in
February: www.fromatob.org.uk. It will featu a "donate here" page,
photos, links to sponsors, message boards, e-mail subscription
sign-up, news, maps, statistics, media clippings/links, and
competitions with prizes. This site will be advertised by over 40
students' unions websites in the UK, and will be advertised by each
time I get mentioned on Radio/TV/newspaper, other websites. I will
also get links to the website from cycling clubs across Europe and the
USA.

I am looking for sponsors to help me with the costs of the trip: I am
aiming to get much kit and travel for free, and get a very
reduced-price tandem - but total costs will hit just over £7000. I've
got £2000 so far - and I'm not sure I want to sell a kidney or rob
banks - so does anyone know of any good contacts to raise sponsorship?

I want to get all the costs sorted before I go, so all of the money I
raise can go straight to charity.

Like the best ideas - it's a dead simple one! If any one has any
ideas/comments/suggestions then please let me know! Cheers.

Paul Parry

Wow, sounds most amazing... If you are to pass through belgium and need
hosting for some reason, feel free to send me an email [remove the
GENESPAM in my email], i will try to help you as much as possible...

greetings

Nico Bogaert

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Werehatrack writes:

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:40:05 GMT, David Dermott
may have said:

"Å" means small river in Norwegian and Swedish. But Å is the
third-last letter of the Swedish alphabet, last in the
Norwegian/Danish alphabet!

And in any event, in the USA, the diacritical marks mean "Americans
won't pronounce this correctly."

According to Garrison Keillor, ø is Danish for "you can't say this." ;-)