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We continue transmitting the chronicles of Matteo Tricarico’s new biking trip from Asia to America…

(This is the hundredth chronicle of this journey. Planned while I was on the island of Phu Quoc in Vietnam in August 2009, it was supposed to last no longer than ten months! If I had followed the original plan, I would never have written 100 chronicles making my life so public. Thank you to you all, my readers. I apologize if I bored you or, if you enjoyed reading my travel stories, please continue to follow me, encouraging me to write more of them. I am sure that over the next two years we will have even more fun …)

On 17 February 2012 in the morning, with a day of delay from the timetable that was further elongated, Marta and I cycled heading north inland, moving away from ​​the Gulf of Siam. Just after the Elephant’s hills, we met another couple of cyclists from Australia who were going in the opposite direction and we stopped to chat with them exchanging some information about ourselves and the respective routes. This is a fundamental rule of a cycle-tourist good etiquette: always stop to chat and socialize with other fellow cyclists, with whom one shares the same passion for slow pace travelling; members of the same small club of bicycle wanderers literately treading every inch of the Earth. Read the rest of this entry →

Continuiamo con la motivazione, presentando altri casi di persone che, come me o diversamente da me ma con tratti comuni, hanno deciso di vivere delle vite “fuori dalle righe”. O, per dirla in maniera piú realistica, “fuori dagli uffici”. Loro hanno comprato il famoso volo low cost  e stanno vivendo il proprio sogno.

Il sesto Caso Studio e’ dedicato ad Alessandro Ursic, originario di Trieste, che attualmente vive a Bangkok –facilmente raggiungibile dall’Italia con voli Blu Express - dove fa il corrispondente estero per l’Ansa e tante altre varie cose che preferisco farvi  raccontare direttamente da lui…

Ciao! Puoi presentare brevemente la tua situazione all’estero?
Ciao, mi chiamo Alessandro Ursic, sono di Trieste ma dal novembre 2008 vivo a Bangkok, dove lavoro come giornalista freelance per varie testate italiane. Su tutte l’Ansa, la Stampa, diverse riviste. Recentemente ho anche realizzato un documentario per Rai News intitolato “L’anno nuovo della Birmania”, vorrei spostarmi piano piano sul video. Negli ultimi due anni ho pian piano dedicato più tempo anche all’insegnamento dell’italiano, sia all’università sia in lezioni private, tramite l’associazione di cultura italiana Dante Alighieri. Insomma, mi tengo occupato! Read the rest of this entry →

We left Matteo Tricarico in Italy, after having completed the first part of his Travel For Aid odyssey across Asia into Europe…  Matteo is now back on the road, starting from Bangkok, Thailand, and trying to end up in North China before starting a new pan- American adventure… we are therefore happy to start publishing his chronicles once again!!

Although today is the 14th day since I started riding after the four-month stay in Italy (not the longest dwelling, I stayed in Nepal for five months!),  the feeling is that I never really stopped and this second stage of my travel is in fact just the continuation of the first one. During the Italian break, I was busy telling my experience to voluntary and cycling associations, schools, friends and perfect strangers who, thanks to the local media, knew all about me. I got used to be stopped in the street by people asking me the question “Are you the one who …?”. With very poor results, I also tried to find sponsorships and, despite the crisis, I was fortunate to meet Enzo Longo, owner of a bicycle company in Ostuni. He built a tailored made bicycle, personalized with my name, site of Travel For Aid and the writing “World Tour”. But I think that the greatest success of my dwelling in Italywas the recruitment of Dr. Marta Santoro, who became my travel companion for the first five weeks throughout Indochina. Marta, born in 1980, from my same hometown, studied as a chiropractor and worked in Englandfor ten years, where she covered hundreds of miles cycling. Read the rest of this entry →