UK based World Wide Magazine is an online publication devoted to adventure, outdoor sport and offbeat travel. They recently contacted me to do a write up about leaving my job in the lab and heading into the Amazon with my bike.
Ian Hibell has become my new hero. I briefly came upon the legend of this man while doing research for my ride. Unfortunately his book, Into the Remote Places, is out of print and quite expensive to buy if you can find it. I now realize the Transamazonica was one of his many conquests back in the 70′s. One more addition to the TransAm club!
I’m very pleased to have been inteviewed by Anna Brones of Planet Green for my cycling trip. Check out the article: What’s It Like to Bicycle Almost 4,000 Miles Across the Amazon? Ask Doug Gunzelmann (Interview) The adventurer advocates for sustainability on two wheels at Planet Green.
After the Boston Phoenix interviewed me about the trip and printed a write up of the adventure I was asked to attend a photo shoot for STUFF magazine out of boston. It’s hard to say no to a night of free cocktails. Here is the photo they chose as well as my answers to interview questions about what makes me sexy.
I’m very proud to have one of my articles published by the Huffington Post. The title, “A land without men for men without land: Travels through the Amazon” describes some of the environmental issues the people of Amazonia face and how closely knit our world community is in terms of man’s impact on the planet.
The Boston Phoenix ran a column on page 6 this week briefly highlighting my trip. So far this is my first print article after many attempts at contacting various publications. There are a few statements that are off (for instance I biked east to west) but all in all its cool to see the story as a tangible entity in my hands. If you’re in the Boston area find a red Phoenix box and check it out.
This is a rough elevation profile from Puerto Maldonado, in South East Peru in the Amazon basin, to Nasca which is located on the coastal desert. The profile shows the rise into the Andes, the numerous ups and downs as I crossed hundreds of miles through the range, and the descent back to sea level around the city of Nasca.
Speilberg and the Coen Brothers haven’t come knocking quite yet but while on the trip I shot quite a bit of video and still photography that I wasn’t able to upload onto the website due to the impossibly slow connections. Now that I am back I’d like to use that choppy on-the-bike-video and remaining still photos to hopefully make a short film… with some help.
