Cycling Around the World – Part Two
Gallery Magazine Guernsey, Issue 14
We’re on pages 46 and 47.
Thanks to our pal Mimi Bishop for putting together this tasty spread for the 14th Issue of Gallery Magazine Guernsey. Click the interactive publication above and have a read. As if being a design guru wasn’t enough, Mimi’s also a talented singer and ukelele player, why not have a listen to her sparkling dick – soundcloud.com/my-dick-sparkles
Wow that’s a great article,
Mary – I’ll send a couple of copies to your Mum and Ben
Had a great trip to Norway and it’s a beautiful country but a cup of coffee probably costs a hundred times what you would pay where you are
Can’t wait to see you both
Mum xxx
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Posted by Mum/Marian | February 9, 2013, 8:30 amLoved these bright and happy words and pictures today! XXX Mum Jen
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Posted by Mum - Jen | February 9, 2013, 7:55 pmLONDON – A British couple cycling around the world and chronicling their journey in a blog have been killed in a road accident in Thailand, Thai police said.
Peter Root and Mary Thompson died Wednesday when they were hit by a pickup truck on a road in Chachoengsao province, east of Bangkok.
The couple, both 34 and from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, left Britain in July 2011 and had cycled through Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and China.
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Posted by Mary | March 30, 2013, 2:11 amThey had been posting photos and details of their trip on the website Two on Four Wheels.
Police Lt. Col. Supachai Luangsukcharoen said Monday that investigators found the bodies of the couple, their bicycles and belongings scattered on the roadside, along with a pickup truck that crashed between some trees.
Supachai said the truck driver, 25-year-old Worapong Sangkhawat, was seriously injured in the crash. He told police his truck hit the cyclists as he was reaching down to pick up a cap from the vehicle’s floor, Supachai said.
The driver has been released on bail and faces charges of causing death by dangerous driving, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail.
Police said the couple’s bodies were being kept at a rescue unit in Chachoengsao, 20 miles (30 kilometers) east of Bangkok.
Britain’s Foreign Office confirmed that two Britons died in Thailand on Feb. 13.
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Posted by Mary | March 30, 2013, 2:11 amhttp://www.weather.com/travel/cyclists-killed-thailand-20130219
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Posted by Mary | March 30, 2013, 2:12 amI read about this in the evening post whilst waiting for a take away in a curry house in Bedminster, Bristol, Uk. A tragic end to anyone’s life but all the more poignant when it’s such a vivacious and young couple, mid flow on a successful adventure… 2 people truly taking in our planet without the use of fossil fuels. You died too young… But you saw more than most will ever see. Peace, love and empathy. X
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Posted by Alex | April 13, 2013, 1:42 amIt’s kinda eery to see this website still up after the couples death. Anyway, R.I.P. world travelers.
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Posted by Jun | April 21, 2013, 8:32 amI still enjoy reading about these adventures. I wish I would have known them! I know they were having the time of their lives! Heaven would be a continuation of their travels, and I hope they are riding on there. God speed and God bless.
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Posted by Jamie | April 22, 2013, 12:54 amWell, personally….. I think it is an incredibly brave move on the part of the families involved in this tragedy. Good on em I reckon!
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Posted by Ian | May 4, 2013, 6:06 amI am myself a bike traveler although only on short journeys. I’ve learned about their tragic end through an other web site (Travelling Two) that I was following in early March.
I think it is very nice to keep up their web page as a remembrance of what they did and how they lived the last period of their lives.
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Posted by Vu Do Quynh | May 5, 2013, 4:30 amSoy un ciclista habitual, cuando escucho noticias como la muerte de cualquier ciclista siento una enorme tristeza, pero cuando monto de nuevo en la bici, me digo a mi mismo que sea en honor de los que partieron…y a los que quedamos nos toca luchar por espacios seguros para montar bicicleta, en ciudades y carreteras. Peter Root y Mary Thompson (acidente en Bangkok Thailandia), Ilse Mariel Alonso Leal (asesinada por microbusero en México D.F.), Mauro Talini (atropellado por tractocamion en Sonora México), David Granados (asesinado por conductor de una S.U.V. Mercedez Benz en L.A.California), José Luis Rivera Resendiz (asesinado por conductor en Queretaro México), Burry Stander (atropellado por microbus en KwaZulu-Natal Sudafrica) y tantos otros ciclistas que han partido, pido por ellos el descanso eterno, solo queda decir que montemos en bici con mucho cuidado.
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Posted by Fernando Montes de Oca | May 20, 2013, 11:28 pmA tragic news about the couple who died in a traffic accident. I have respect for those young people who made their dreams to reality. Their adventures have been stopped so prematurely by the negligence of a truck drivers. Myself as cyclists, I can say that the danger is always around the corner, often because there are too many irresponsible car driver on the way. Often cyclists need a lot of luck by travell.
Unfortunately, we living in a world where the car traffic have become high status in the human culture.
Car traffic is a killer machine, an invention which cause thousands of deaths each day in the world. A very strange and dangerous lifestyle that characterized the modern human people. This unsustainable car-lifestyle should get everyone to reflect. If you want to make a difference, and at the same time show solidarity to the couple Maria & Peter, an idea is to leave your car at home, and instead to use your bike.
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Posted by Gianluca Gaudenzi | May 30, 2013, 8:51 pm