Follow Friday-Pete Gostelow
May 21, 2010
I met Pete in a dingy greasy spoon cafe in London for a chat last year. He’s a great guy and I’d been following his blog as he slowly wound his way on his long ride home. He was on quite a bit of the same route as I was on so it was always good to know what was ahead. We talked about what we’d seen and the problems you face on trips like ours (dogs, disease and becoming travel weary) and I we went on to talk about his next trip from England to Cape Town: the Big Africa Cycle. I love maps and it’s always great regaling tails and helping with logistics with another simularly minded person. Pete takes some fantastic photos and is travelling through some of the most stunning places on my favourite continent, Africa.
Recently he’s had some bad luck and has had to spend a while recovering from an injury in Dakar, Senegal. I always found that the times I was forced to stop on my two trips; either by injury, illness or visas-were the highlights of the trip. They’re great times to really get to know an area and meet some amazing people. Pete’s done this by walking across Gambia.
He’s cycling to raise money for Against Malaria and you can donate here. Below are a few photos I poached off his Flickr!
You can follow Pete either on his website here on on twitter here or on Flickr here.
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