Contents

Introduction

1 Growing up in Taranaki

2 Hitting the Road

3 Corsica? Course I can

4 Scandinavia by bike

5 Life on the Danube

6 The rains down in Africa

7 Into the desert

8 Off the grid in Egypt

9 Close encounters of the bear kind

10 A quiet life

11 Through the desert to a new life

12 Sand in my veins

13 More Morocco

14 Goals and goats

15 Socks and shoes

16 Cousin Kim, divorce and goat curry

17 Coming Home

18 Chip butties and pumpkin soup man

19 Mad Macca and the Muppets

20 Team Tamati gets underway

21 Vegas baby!

22 Into the Valley of Death

23 Burritos and blisters

Postscript

Acknowledgements