Here's the thing...
I'm wondering....
Dont you think that seeing celebs doing the adventure thing - actually makes it LESS accessible to joe public?
We're all bikers, so we can see it what for what it is... but a LAYMAN would see the whole thing and may think:
1. You need LLLOOOOAAADS of money to do adventure travel
2. You need a HUGE entourage to SUPPORT you and KEEP YOU SAFE
3. You need to be FIT to do it, and have had SAS training etc. etc. etc. not the mention the expensive equipment etc. etc. etc.
And they did'nt really go out of their way to make it look EASY or POSSIBLE for ordinary folk to achieve??
ALL in all - celebrities doing something, usually has the effect of making it COMPLETELY INACCESSIBLE to mortal men... because joe public knows that they have a multimillion organisation behind them...
ESPECIALLY since it now creates the impression that you wont make it unless you are on a VERY EXPENSIVE new BMW etc. etc.
I had that feeling when I saw that British girl with her big B&Q boat (can't remember her name.. now a Dame or something) circumnavigate the globe....First woman to do it solo or something...
My very FIRST thought was: okay for SOME -- middle class upbringing, sponsored to the hilt... obviously sailing is only for the UBER RICH....
ARGH!!! I've just BORED myself to sleep.....       :s leep1:
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