Follow Friday: Helen Lloyd

This week’s Follow Friday is Helen Lloyd.

Helen is an amazing girl who’s currently cycling from England to Cape Town down the west coast of Africa and is planning to cut across the Congo to Rwanda and then head down south through central southern Africa. To be honest, it’s a route I’m really jealous of! The Congo facinates me and I wish I could have spent more time there. She’s also already paddled up the Niger River and been to Timbouktu on this trip!

Now the main thing that most of you will notice is that she’s a girl. She’s a girl cycling through Africa on her own. Suicide? I don’t think so. I know that being massive and beardy helped me out in lots of situations but it also got me into trouble and made me more of an intimidating traveller. I think Helen has got the best of both worlds in that she’s done some of the trip with other people and struck out on her own for most of it. I reckon she’ll get to see alot more of the amazing hospitality in Africa than I did and have a better time as a result. Is she in danger-maybe. Is she in any more danger than I was? Probably not. Good on her I say-we need more like her. We’re not on this planet to sit in fear behind double locked doors.

You can follow her on twitter here and her website here. She’s also got some cool photos on flickr here.