Category: USA on $6 a Day
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2025 Update
It’s been a decade since my first USA adventure and blog!Much has happened. Good, and bad. I’m now working on some new projects.I have removed most of the posts from this blog while I am in the process of writing the escapades into a book. I’m incuding some of the juicy details that never made…
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2014 in review
So I wrote 62 posts across the USA and the blog received just short of 10,000 reads. Raising $3227 for @worldlandtrust. I’d say it was a pretty successful year. If you’re stuck for some toilet time reading, these were the most popular updates: Naked and Alone https://winstonwolfrider.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/1579/ Haunting Experiences https://winstonwolfrider.wordpress.com/…/nobody-heard-me-s…/ New Orleans https://winstonwolfrider.wordpress.com/…/a-miss-havisham-p…/ Race and…
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When a Bear is a bird, and when Beards do battle
Without attempting to be The Riddler, waking up in Yosemite for the last time was like waking up on the first morning of a new job – much less exciting than waking up on the last day of your old job, and even though there is a reason you must start work, quite unsure and…
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A Hurricane, a flirtatious Miss Havisham, and some drenched, French lingerie
On $6 a day, and with plans to hit my environmental checkpoints on time, I had no intention of reaching Texas, let alone New Orleans. I have seen and met a few people around the globe travelling on tight budgets, across continents on unicycles, paddling a thousand miles in a kayak, kicking a soccer ball…
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Shapely white arses…it’s what I came here for
I thought elk were nervous, shy and retired creatures…yes, most of them are over 65. However, the majestic Rocky Mountain National Park, just north west of Denver CO proved to be home to some rather carefree, left wing socialites who came to inspect their camper-riddled meadow, making sure we were all provided for. Another bonus…
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Shaolin Squirrels, some frozen vocal chords and spot the Donkey
It might have been my Dad, with his impressive collection of definitely camp, pink ordinance and survey maps prior to when I was born, who taught me how to map read. Grateful for my introduction into the folds of navigational wizardry (we seemed to often drive around rural roads in Britain at high speeds, playing…
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Romancing the Boy
Nine months prior to me landing in Massachusetts, I had confidently prioritised the main, natural check points on my route. I was saddened that, on this trip to the USA I would not be visiting the area on earth which I considered to be the most nostalgic and certainly the most romantic of all places.…
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Pooh, and being alone in some sublime mountains
Let me directly, with my opinion, shoot passionately from the hip: Glacier National Park is the most impressive, most mawkish, grand and most romantic, mountainous setting I have ever been humbled enough to visit. Of the dozen or so refrigerated regions on the globe which I have taken in, Glacier was the least populated (at…
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Leaving on a jet plane
There’s nothing quite like a long haul flight to indulge in thought and contemplate decisions made. In seven hours I land in the USA and after a few days, set off on the biggest adventure I have ever decided to go on, in a country I know very little about other than what I have…
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Foot fetishes, Alcoholic Hummbingbirds and some Beautiful Boobies
Despite what you might assume, elephants walk on their tip toes, but more on those ballet-beauties in a moment. Fascinating feet come in as many visual variants, shapes and sizes as they do tastes. Once described by a group of friends, mine happen to be, “feet that a woman should be envious of”, apparently soft…
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Dirty boy, a few extra owls and pleasing Gran
The festivities are well behind us, or at least it feels that way, as a few work colleagues and I are alcohol free for January for Cancer Research Uk – http://www.justgiving.com/teams/ojsoda . (Wow, I managed to get that plug in early). I’m now on the final leg of preparation for America and with less than…
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Fruit search, determination and nipples..
Click the link if you’d like to donate: http://www.justgiving.com/WinstonWolfrider I find it pretty difficult to write when I’m angry, but updating software on my iPhone has resulted in the deletion of an entire folder titled “USA Plans”. It has riled me up on my way to work to the point of throwing my phone at the…
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9 Months to go
Click the link if you’d like to donate: http://www.justgiving.com/WinstonWolfrider Planning continues… The blog still has to go live, the charities need to be chosen and contacted, sponsorship hasn’t been attempted yet, my fitness requires attention and I haven’t told all my family. I started training a couple of weeks ago and decided to give myself…
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I just didn’t want to run a marathon…
Click the link if you’d like to donate: http://www.justgiving.com/WinstonWolfrider Starting in Spring 2014, I will be trekking over 4000 miles, across the United States on a budget of $1500 (£1K). I’m hoping to raise money for various nature and conservation charities. In doing so, I will be travelling via at least 10 well known, natural…
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The USA Challenge
Starting in the Spring of 2014, I will begin navigating over 4000 miles, coast to coast across the United States of America. The challenge is not to walk the whole way – it is that I will (hopefully) complete the trek on just £2000 (approximately $3035 USD) and hit at least the six natural places of…
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