Smellybikers Ride
I'd dreamt of riding around the world ever since I first got on a bike, even though my first minutes on two wheels ended with a bike sized hole in the neighbours fence, but thats another story.
I was twelve when I rode through our neighbours garden but life has a way of keeping you on your own side of the fence. A good job, mortgage, the kind of stuff you're supposed to spend your life doing before retiring and expiring a few years later.
Nuts to that. I sold everything, gave my cat to a neighbour and started chasing my dream. That was back in November 2003 and I'm still doing it. If I'd known then what I know now I would've started earlier, maybe at twelve-and-a-half.
 As well as wandering the world I'm also raising funds for MAGPAS, a registered charity that supports the UK Ambulance Service. In 1992 they scraped my dad off the road after a bad accident and saved his life.
You can help support MAPGAS by visiting their website and making a donation, tell them 'Smellybiker sent you !' 
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The Wanderlust GPS Maps
If you have a Garmin GPS receiver I bet you *really* enjoy paying a fortune for maps ! Here's an alternative.
I managed to drop my bike in Brazilian river, no big deal for the bike but all my Garmin CD's were soaked & destroyed, after trying for ages to get replacements I started looking at ways to make my own.
Thanks to a *lot* of help from friends all over the world, the WanderLust Worldmap was born in September 2006.
The maps are built from public domain and donated data, covering the whole world - more detail than Garmin's equivalent product and more regularly updated as well.
The project is now being opened up allowing members to add their own data, tracks & waypoints, which improves the maps and allows members to make their own things.
Membership costs $50 US and includes all updates for 12 months, an extra 12 months membership costs $20 US.
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