"Catch You On The Flip Side" - Podcast with Tim Millikin
Tim Millikin set out in May 2015 to cycle from Jacksons Corner in Reading to Reading, USA. The three-year trip took him 46500 kilometres through 39 countries. On his trip he discovered that “the world is a really friendly place”.
Tim talks about the highs and lows, literally and metaphorically, of his adventure. As he set out across Europe leaving familiarity behind and traversed eastern Europe, he learnt how to accept the hospitality of the people he met en route who invited him into their homes to share meals and their celebrations.
After cycling through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan and across China he turned south to Vietnam and south east Asia. From Cambodia he sent the Whitley Pump a photograph of a village pump.
From Singapore he flew to Australia where he cycled across the red centre and continued his trip to New Zealand.
Following a break in New Zealand he flew to Ushaia on the southerly tip of Argentina to be greeted by the strong winds of Patagonia. In the Atacama Desert of Chile, he did not meet or speak to another soul for six days. That is, until he came to a police post where he paused to cook the last of his supplies and was presented with the “best cheese sandwich he had ever tasted” by the officer on duty.
Then it was onwards and upwards north to central America. In El Salvador he was hit by a pickup and cracked his head open. He ended up in hospital for 11 days and his bike frame was broken.
After he and his bicycle were repaired the journey continued through the USA to Reading, Pennsylvania and the finish line at the Pagoda on Mount Penn and an emotional reunion with his parents.
Before the trip Tim Millikin worked in a travel agent in Reading, but now works in outdoor activities. He has contributed to a book ‘The Bigger Book of Yes and has realised a book of his 3-year cycle named “Reading to Reading: A Bicycle Journey Around the World”.
Check out more of Tim below:
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https://twitter.com/timmillikin1
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Dan
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