Posted via email from Lost On… Steve Crombie

Posted via email from Lost On… Steve Crombie

Posted via email from Lost On… Steve Crombie

Posted via email from Lost On… Steve Crombie

Posted via email from Lost On… Steve Crombie

Taken at San Antonio National Park

Posted via email from Lost On… Steve Crombie

Special thanks to NASCA for providing me the opportunity to hang out as an ARMTour Ambassador with the Ntaria community in Hermannsburg, Central Australia. Special thanks to the Ntaria community for sharing your world and inspiring us how live. 

This quote is dedicated to the people who live there and all the people who work for NASCA. ‎”Certainly you can inspire others with your words. Yet you can inspire other people even more with the way you live. By skilfully arguing and presenting your beliefs, you can convince others to consider adopting those beliefs. Yet you can express those beliefs even more convincingly by consistently applying them to your life. With what you say, you can get some attention. With what you do, again and again, you can build real and lasting credibility. If you wish to lift others up, the first step is to bring your own life to a higher level. Then you can bring along as many other people as you wish. It’s not selfish to follow your own authentic dreams and to create a life for yourself that’s the best you can imagine. For in doing so, you also create outstanding opportunities along the way to be of real, meaningful service to others. Your life has unique and immense value. Share that value far and wide by living your dreams and making your life a true inspiration” Unknown.

If you want to get involved check out the website. NASCA aims to be the peak body for Indigenous Sport, Health and Education in Australia and set the international standard for imaginative and effective personal development programs for indigenous communities. 

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‘Most people in Blue AIME Hoodies in a pic’ win a special half day of adventuring in Sydney with Lonely Planet Adventurer Steve Crombie! Every jumper bought supports more Indigenous kids to finish school at the same rate as every Australian child. DO IT NOW! If you can’t afford jumper share link to show your support. Buy your jumper here and post your photos on the AIME page.

An example of some of the adventures you could have on ya little half day adventure. I promise I won’t make you bleed or break any bones. Well… its unlikely anyway.

*Competition closes on the 21st of July.

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One of their highest reviews ever. Book being reprinted as we speak. To place your order email readthebook@loston.com To read the full review read below. Taken from Lonely Planet website http://bit.ly/jkhpt1

In Lost on Earth, young Aussie Crombie  plans to ride his single-cylinder Honda 650cc motorcycle from Ushuaia at the southern tip of South America’s Tierra Del Fuego, to Prudhoe Bay,Alaska; the Pan American Highway’s unofficial endpoint well north of the Arctic Circle.

Originally accompanied by two friends, what starts as another blokey road trip quickly becomes a lot more interesting when the author’s mates choose their own path and Crombie is left alone to pursue his dream – all 90,000 kilometres of it.  Over the ensuing two years, our author crisscrosses South America several times, as he struggles his way north, surviving hardships, privations, romance, diseases and numerous (mechanical) breakdowns. While a steady trickle ofhermanos have completed the Pan American traverse, (Tim Cahill in Road Feverfamously took a mere 23 days), Crombie does his utmost to avoid the route-more-travelled and takes the reader on a trip through the obscurer slices of Latin America.

It’s hard not to draw a parallel with Ted Simon’s Jupiter’s Travels, published over a quarter of a century earlier.  Both writers are solo motorcyclists; both are imprisoned in South America; both suffer greatly from transport of dubious mechanical reliability.  However, while journalist Simon’s prose is sculptured and aloof, Crombie is refreshingly unrestrained, and sometimes boisterously low-brow. Moreover, whileJupiter’s Travels peters out (one needs to read the sequel, Riding High, to fill in the blanks) Lost on Earth is perfectly paced, reaching a fabulous do-or-die climax.  And let’s not forget, Simon’s bike had an extra cylinder.

Crombie is always entertaining and his passion (and ability – he speaks both Spanish and Portuguese) to converse with the locals brings a depth to encounters that most adventure travellers only dream of. He’s constantly indebted to the kindness of strangers as he single-mindedly flogs both body and machine relentlessly towards his goal. And the closer he gets, the more questions he asks, the more he reveals of himself and his motivation.

This cracking tale of sheer determination should be mandatory reading for any young, would-be adventurer.

Steve Waters, while working at his computer in LP’s Melbourne office, day-dreams of driving his six-cylinder 3000cc ’65 Holden HD Premier from Tasmania’s Cockle Creek to Nordkapp in Norway.

Posted via email from Lost On… Steve Crombie

Looking for experienced boat captain (preferably an MM) for hazardous 10,000 nautical mile journey. Two long months of extraordinary adventures in the Pacific on custom 60 foot catamaran with motley crew of explorers – ready to leave within 30 days. Honor and recognition in case of success. Any takers? email me – Steve@loston.com

Posted via email from Lost On… Steve Crombie