Life offers lots of great excuses for not camping, not backpacking, not riding your bike more, not getting to the Cirque of the Unclimbables or rafting down the Grand Canyon or checking out the new singletrack one county over, but most of those excuses turn out, on examination, to be pretty lame. If you live on earth, there are twenty-four hours in your day, and if you work a typical nine to five job, you’re left with sixteen hours of free time. Surely, not all of those sixteen hours will be spent folding socks, right?
This is one of the many epiphanies that Alastair Humphreys had after he rode his bike forty-six thousand miles around the world and walked a thousand across the Arabian Peninsula’s Empty Quarter. He was back home in the UK, giving inspirational speeches about his trips, and often had people come up to him afterward and protest, but you’re an adventurer and I’m just a normal person, so I can’t
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