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Sleeping
I wonder if you two have become a little "precious" with your sleeping arrangements?
Check out "Äustralian Story" on line at the ABC, (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 14th Feb 2011. (You are both internet people, you'll find it)
This story was about an 85 year old rider, Doug Sunderland, who lost his wife through cancer, has cancer himself and was dissuaded from suicide by his doctor who said "Get on your bike and ride!"
He has just finished his second circumnavigation of Australia and is planning his next long ride. At 85.
Reason I mention this this because his sleeping arrangements are to stop at the side of the road, remove his helmet - only- wrap himself in a two buck tarp and go to sleep.
I've ridden that road and could argue with where he does this! But I truly salute a hard-core minimalist.
Like Dave Barr, he is happy to subsist on cold canned food at the side of the road.
Doug, 85 and Dave, is younger, but has no legs.
Hard men of the never ending highway: gentlemen, I salute you both.
May we meet on the road sometime.
Rob Hall
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