So I felt it was time for a little pep talk because this is right about the time when your best New Year intentions start flying out the door, and your old habits kick in. I don’t want that for you. This year is going to be different. If you really want to live with [...]

Oh hi. I’m Becca. I live in a van. And I’m changing the world. Sometime late in 2011, after a year of being unemployed and many years of trying to figure out exactly what I was meant to do with my life, I decided it was time to make a big move. Time to shake [...]

Two months ago to this very date, I arrived in Cape Town South Africa with 4,000 miles under my belt, an experience of a lifetime and some really bad tan lines. I’d just completed The Ride of My Life - a personal challenge like no other and a huge test of whether my business could survive [...]

I’m writing from Lusaka, capital of Zambia on our rest day. I’ve just come off a five day stint on the bike, clocking up huge kilometers, including two days of over 170km! I feel I’ve pushed myself through, and over, some big mental and physical barriers. As I mentioned in my last post This Is [...]

Three words to live by if you want to enjoy Africa for what it is – a wild, untamed dark star that can at once delight and frustrate you. When something simply doesn’t go your way, or there’s no explanation for what just happened, you throw your hands up and say `TIA’. Even the locals [...]

Imagine… after a busy month, after a big launch, after your program comes to a close… you take a much needed vacation. You fly to someplace exotic, you check in to the hotel, and decide, just this one time, to check your email. There are 200 new messages, including several urgent customer problems, a glitch [...]

At the risk of sounding like Dr Seuss,…Today is the day. I’m off to great places. A place 165km from Nairobi to be exact, on my bike, to start my Tour d’Afrique. Will you join me vicariously on the ride of my life? Around 40 others have been cycling since Cairo and have now accepted [...]