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Going in, I imagine the experience will be like Extreme Makeover, with a horde of eager volunteers descending upon the neighborhood, cleaning up the ruins and leaving in their wake a cluster of five-bedroom Classic Victorians as well as lasting memories of brotherly love and the triumph of the human spirit. I imagine sobbing families seeing their new homes for the first time and Scott and I bursting through the front door, bounding across t

For years, we dreamt of looking over the majestic Tian Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan, of contemplating the azure shores of the Timor Sea, and of looking back over our shoulders having crossed the famed Australian Outback. We dreamed of sharing countless meals with generous shepherd families, of making new friends and of finding new cultures. In order to quench our thirst for exploring and in order to realise this childhood dream, the bicycle quickly emerged as the most suitable means of transp

When bad weather forced Matthew Gibbons off his planned route whilst trekking in Albania, he found himself stumbling into Europe’s biggest cannabis farm. He tells Sidetracked the story. Trekking towards the peak of Albania’s Sopoti mountain, we watched a dark cloud shroud the radio mast we had been aiming for all morning. It submerged the entire summit of the 1500m peak and, with it, our route. We found ourselves faced with a choice: continue our journey along a ridgeline, or bypass the sum