A tale of the joys and tribulations of homesteading in the Canadian wilderness 20 minutes Michael was first up. He slid out of the double bed, onto the sleeping platform above the kitchen, and went quietly down the ladder. Slipping on a warm coat from behind the cabin door, he unhooked the latch and wentContinue reading “An early Christmas (fiction)”
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Agadez, Heart of the Sahara
Hitch-hiking across the Sahara in 1972, I got a ride with Jacques across the most isolated part of my route, the 1,000 km from the Tamanrasset, Algeria to Agadez, Niger. We had run out of spare tires at the tiny community of Tegguiada In Tessoum, and Jacques had managed to get a ride with four flat tires and an empty jerrycan into Agadez, leaving me to look after the car until he returned.
Overland To India 1963
A couple of months after my sixteenth birthday, I set off from London to hitch-hike to India. I’d only hitch-hiked once before, when I was twelve, from London to a caravan in Suffolk with a woman I’d just met who had offered to show me how to make toffee!
Dane (fiction)
We were both quite drunk as we walked through the early evening traffic.
“Who cares,” said Dane, “my wife has gone. Good riddance to her.”
He lurched against me. “I’m glad we met up. You know I’ve been wondering where you were Tan. Jeez, it’s good to see you again.” He put an arm around my shoulder.
Sahara Daze-3
At the camp ground in Tamanrasset there was a group of five Italian junkies who had decided to hitch-hike across the Sahara to get off heroin. Tamanrasset is the southernmost town in Algeria, sitting almost in the middle of the great desert.
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