In light of the financial crisis and the weather and when we’re stuck inside working, I thought I would give out some ways that I motivate myself.
By Andy
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Posted in Constructive Ranting
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Also tagged awaken, determination, Energy, exercise, get things done, GTD, Ideas, information, Inspiration, Life, Motivation, organisation, read, self-helf, training, wake up
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Tom emailed me last week and to tell me he was going to follow an old man on a horse to a hot spring at 3000m. That sounded like my idea of fun so I decided to go to Yerevan and do it.
I went to the bus station in Ortachala in Tbilisi at 9.30 am [...]
By Andy
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Posted in Armenia, Asia, Expedition Journal, Mountain Biking
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Also tagged Andy, Armenia, biking, caldera, church, Curry, Cycling, dolma, epic, explosif, kona, Mountain Biking, Mountains, retro, snow, tom, Wild, wildnerness
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After leaving the Iran embassy having been rejected for the visa a second time, I cycled over to the travel agency, and booked a flight to Istanbul. Flying is not the best transport for me because I feel that it cuts out the point of travel which is the adventure of meeting people and having [...]
By Andy
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Posted in Expedition Journal, Georgia, India
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Also tagged bombs, Challenge, China, flying, Georgia, India, istanbul, monks, Pakistan, Police, Tbilisi, terrorism, Tibet, travel
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I left Kathmandu and cycled through the smokey diesel traffic of the suburbs up out of the valley. I was not used to the mountains but glad to be back on a gradient and off the flat.
By Andy
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Posted in Expedition Journal, India, Nepal
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Also tagged Biscuits, Botanical Gardens, Chang, Charity, Chay, Cleat Problems, Climbing, Couchsurfing, Dead Body, Delhi, Guesthouse, Himalaya, John Peel, Kathmandu, Maoists, Monkeys, Mountains, Mutton, Nepali Film, Old Men, Pan Masala, Rice, Saddhu, School, Siddharta Highway, Suburbs, Temple, Terai, Theft, Trees, Tribhuvan Highway, Valleys, Volunteering, Wild Camping
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I’ve had a strange last week. The urge to use some of my newly rediscovered lateral thinking skills has been bubbling to the surface. I found Edward De Bono’s book Lateral Thinking in a book shop in Quetta and through reading it, I’ve found inspiration to find new challenging adventures and varied experiences.
By Andy
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Posted in Expedition Journal, India
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Also tagged Acupuncture, Almond, Aroused, Bhaji, Bizarre, Cake, Challenge, Cricket, Cycling, Daughtered, Dhaal, Diet, Dogs, Eating With My Fingers, Edward De Bono, English, Experience, Fingers, Good Decision, Grandfather, Gujarat, Healthy, Hinduism, Hospital, Husband, India, Indian Culture, Inspiration, Jainism, Language, Lateral Thinking, Limit, Main Road, Massage, Meat, Milk, Milling about, Mothered, Noise, Passion, Physical, Process, Procrastination, Quetta, Reading, Relaxing, Religion, Rice, Rolling Pin, Rural, Saddhus, Satisfying, Side Road, Smiling, Solutions, Soup, Spice, Spoon, Strange, Tasty, Temples, Thali, Thighs, Touring, Variety, Vegetarian, Villages, Wedding, Wild Camping, Zone
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Indian food is addictive. To start with it’s like ‘curry for breakfast,lunch and dinner’ - hmmmm…. But Indian food isn’t really about just eating for the need of it. It’s an experience of taste bud adventure pretty much every meal. In fact the whole Indian experience is a bit like a macrocosm of the eating [...]
By Andy
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Posted in Expedition Journal, India
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Also tagged Acceptance, Addictive, Aloo, Aromatic, Begging, Bikaner, Breaking Preconceptions, Buffalo, Burning, Carelessness, Chappati, Childlike, Children, Chocolate Brownie, Christmas, Chutney, Concoction, Confusion, Cool, Creamy, Curry, Detoxification, Dhaal, Dirty, Disgust, Donnie Darko, Douk, Eating, Entertainment, Experience, Farting, Food, God, Gormlessness, Happiness, Helplessness, Hot, Hotels, Hunger, India, Indian Food, Jainism, Lime, Macrocosm, Mangoes, Memory, Monkeys, Mountains, Nutty, Observation, Opium, Overload, Phlegm, Pickle, Pilgrims, Police, Pungent, Radish, Rangy, Raw Onions, Rice, Richie Hawtin, Rough, Rubbish, Sabzi, Salt, Shampoo, Sleeping, Smoking, Smooth, Smugness, Soup, Sour, Spicy, Spitting, Stomach, Sunset, Tasty, Tractors, Vegetables, Visions, Washing, Waste, Whisky, Wild, Wonderment
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