Kate Rawles’ ‘Outdoor Philosophy’ looks at the relationship between people and nature, telling stories through long bicycle journeys, including crossing South America by bamboo bicycle.
Kate Rawles’ ‘Outdoor Philosophy’ looks at the relationship between people and nature, telling stories through long bicycle journeys, including crossing South America by bamboo bicycle.
Andrew White chats to one of the new presenters of Walks Around Britain – Vikki Lee – to discover more about her walks and love of the great outdoors. And writer, lecturer and environmental campaigner Kate Rawles talks to Andrew about how she became an outdoor person and her views on how we can save the planet.
Adventurer, author and speaker Kate Rawles shares the tales of her transatlantic bicycle adventures exploring the climate and biodiversity crises. Her latest adventure involved crossing the ocean on a cargo ship and we discuss the merits of cargo travel, and talk about what transatlantic travel might look like in the future.
Kate Rawles – Outdoor philosopher, writer, activist and cyclist. Cycling South America for the Life Cycle biodiversity bamboo bike ride!
happened to be cycling through the small town of buena vista just in time for the july 4th parade. streams of people, horses, trucks, dogs, all sorts of groups from the hill-billy music reunion to the league of women voters, all throwing sweets to the crowds, kids scrambling in the sunshine. great atmosphere! then on…
left susan’s after a great few days – horse-riding! Conversation! Food! Hot-springs! – reluctantly, on the 2nd july (“stay just one more day! come rafting with us!”) and, reunited with credit cards thanks to chris in uk, base-camp manager extraordinaire, headed off towards salida. never trust the locals when they say you’ll have a tail…
woke hungry! ate the cinamon roll. beautiful ride smelling of hot pine and sage to pagosa springs where had huge plate of heuvos rancheros and looked at indian jewellery. a good job that no credit card as i rather fell for an inlaid silver bracelet – just what i need! – at a mere $400….
back to santa fe in tom’s plane rather than the neighbour’s, a beautiful little twin-prop turbo. rocky sat in the aisle quite comfortably with the panniers belted into seats. flight back was fabulous. huge desert vistas, near ship-rock at the meeting of colorado, new mexico, utah and arizona. flying higher – 21 thousand feet –…
wonderful couple of days. great evening at neighbours’ yesterday. when we arrived at john and anne’s, just us and them. i was imagining a sit-down formal dinner. then another couple arrived, then a car-load, then another. cars kept arriving. soon the house was full of three generations, wandering inside and out, drinking beers, cokes and…
great hospitality from jonathan and mela, including a wonderful bed outside under a car-port-like structure illuminated with fairy lights. lay in bed listening to the crickets and watching the sky light up with distant lightening. and MARMITE for breakfast!!! was hoping to meet up with an old friend, tom buffalo, in a few days time….
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