As part of my campaign to share my 100 Light My Fire sporks with the people we meet on our cycle around the world, here is the first pre-trip spork given away.
I've known Ben (left in the picture above) for a good few years now. He joined me on my first cycle tour, pedalling between and walking up the three highest peaks in the Scotland, England and Wales, on a later cycling trip to Amsterdam and a memorably wet few days walking across the Lyngen Alps in Norway.
Since then, Ben has also done a big bike trip all the way to Istanbul. So it was fitting that Ben was able to join Laura and I on our practice ride from Plymouth to Edinburgh.
It was our first day of cycling and it was tough. Straight up into the hills of Dartmoor, head first into a headwind and battling the unseasonably cold weather.
Ben came out to meet us in the evening, pitched his tent alongside ours for the night and earned himself the honour of the first of 100 sporks.
My wife Laura and I are preparing for a bike trip, 10,000 miles from the UK to Australia, departing August 18th. Read more about our trip at www.thenextchallenge.org.
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