📼 This is an archived record of the 2022–2024 Ride for Hope journey. It is preserved reading, not a live trip — links, forms and dates reflect the original diary.

Preparation

What it's all about

30 October 2022 Preparation

When your world feels like the inside of a tumble dryer, it can be hard to get oriented.

When the wheels fall off, the strength to face the day can be somewhat elusive. That’s where I found myself after losing my family, my business and income; uprooted from a busy household of six life-filled people to a home of one, right when COVID meant I couldn’t even legally have a mate over for a cuppa tea for months on end in the world’s most locked down city. Rather than dwell on the darkness and unspeakable grief of all that, I know I must find a positive posture into a next chapter.

So this insane attempt to ride a motorbike from Australia to England is my way of doing just that.