The gunshot
Lazy, heavy drips of rainwater from the corrugated iron roof had lulled me to sleep in the tiny, clean and somewhat chilly village on the outskirts of Kuching city. I awoke to avifauna all around which seemed to be competing…
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Lazy, heavy drips of rainwater from the corrugated iron roof had lulled me to sleep in the tiny, clean and somewhat chilly village on the outskirts of Kuching city. I awoke to avifauna all around which seemed to be competing…
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I believe the saying that a successful person is only so because of the hidden people who support them. True, in my opinion. As for this 100th world record attempt, I am only succeeding (well, I think I am!) because…
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You know, I spent between 4 and 6 weeks planning this world record attempt. It wasn’t easy. As happens with project management, no matter what I tried to arrange, challenges popped up. Most of the project foundations I had to…
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Sure, I am stuck in a routine these days. It centres around a CB-3000. No matter how far I have to hitchhike, how sunburned I get, how hungry or thirsty I am, how many sleazy robbers loiter around me, how…
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I am used to yelling out for things when I need them. When I left The Nook, I needed a lift out of the city. I’d scrounged a free meal the night before and I was still in a “no…
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Franky of The Nook in central Kuching had a place for me to stay. I needed a good place to rest where I could relax without worries of having my backpack stolen, and The Nook was just it. I was…
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Crossing into Malaysia was like hopping from Zambia to Sweden – the difference in development was striking and immediately obvious. From a hitchhiker’s point of view, that’s bad news. It’s really bad news. In my 24 years of hitchhiking, I’ve…
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Having successfully crossed the final stretch of road I had to pass to reach the Indonesian-Malaysian border, the mud-speckled car rolled into the wayward settlement of Aruk, sleepy and still, in the hours before dawn. And you guessed it –…
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While enduring the usual boring questions at the police station – Where you from? What your name? Where are go you? – a youth in a baseball cap spun backwards, and with all his top front teeth missing, skipped up…
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The next leg of my 100th world record attempt journey around Borneo looked as though it was going to be a breeze – no longer was I worrying about the chastity device strapped about me, or how I would get…
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