English Adventurer to Arrive Home After 13-Year, Self-Powered Journey
Travel Blog • Joanna Kakissis • 10.05.07 | 12:17 PM ET
After spending well over a decade traveling the globe by foot, skate, bike, paddle and crawl, 40-year-old English eco-adventurer Jason Lewis is expected to arrive in Greenwich on Saturday morning, completing his quest to journey around the world under his own power. Lewis, once a self-employed cleaner, traveled across five continents, two oceans and one sea before reaching the English Channel last Sunday.
The trip almost ended in the U.S. when an elderly and semi-blind drunk driver struck him on a Colorado road—he broke both of his legs and spent nine months in recovery after the accident—but managed to regain his strength and complete the 46,505-mile voyage. He also stopped for weeks at a time to raise money for the journey by working odd jobs that included a stint on a cattle ranch in the U.S. and a funeral home in Australia.
On Saturday he will pedal his 26-foot wooden craft Moksha up the Thames to the Meridian Line, where he began his expedition in July 1994.
“It’s quite amusing in retrospect,” Lewis told the BBC. “I mean, what are the chances?”
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Photo: AP.