So having dusted off the yak hairs and got the taste of mutton and fermented horse milk out of my system after travels in Mongolia, it was with great expectations that I met up with Chris (AKA Wonky) at Beijing Airport. Together we set up ‘Run From The Sun’ a trip from Beijing back to London via South Eastern Asia, raising money for children’s charity SOS. You may know Chris as one of the directors of Adventure, but at the time he was a sound technician for a northern ballet company. To be honest it could start in a lot of places but I guess the trip only really galvanized in my mind after I met a tall dwarf stranger – Chris ‘Wonky’ Colling – a year before setting off. Or was the beginning when I found out I was being posted to Mongolia to help run an expedition: (hmmmm squeezing my 6ft 4in frame into a tiny Air china seat for 14 hours didn’t sound like much fun). Was it two years previously whilst walking down a mountain in South America with Clive Greenhough (he from Mondo Enduro fame), and having one of those “that sounds too simple, I will do it on a bicycle” moments? (I changed my mind about the bicycle as I thought it would make it more difficult to pick up Swedish backpackers whilst dressed head to foot in Lycra). However starting at the beginning is a little difficult, as I’m not really sure when it all started. I guess like every story I should start from the beginning.
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