Originally Posted by Ronhutton

Updating this one, since James has covered Europe and Asia and has crossed Australia from West to East. He did Australia the hard way, hugging the south coast all the way. He is over halfway round the globe now in 105 days, cycling over 9,000 miles. He is currently in New Zealand, and will then fly to Vancouver, and will then cycle down to San Francisco along the Pacific coast. You can see his future route on
http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/RouteNetwork.pdf.
He will then turn east on the Western Express to Pueblo where James will join the Trans American trail to Richmond and then up to New York.
You can follow his progress on the whereintheworldisjames site on the earlier post. The milage of flying from Aystralia to New Zealand has yet to be subtracted from the total milage.
If he is passing anywhere near your area, he would appreciate a welcome to spur him on. A disappointment is the donations are not keeping pace with his fast pace, reaching nearly £45,000 against a target of £1.8m.
All money raised will go to the PD research group at Kings College London, who are investigating the role of infection in PD. See
http://www.whatsdrivingparkinsons.net/about.html
Read his comments on Twitter from being attacked in Iran, to hitting a Wombat in Australia on http://twitter.com/globecycle
Ron