On the first of January 2009, I crossed the River Plate from Argentina to Uruguay. Thus began The Odyssey Expedition my incredible, hilarious and occasionally terrifying four year journey to every country in the world without flying, as accredited by Guinness World Records™.
You can read all about The Odyssey Expedition by tapping on the link below.
I officially finished the journey at the end of January 2013 and by the summer of that year I was already ready for my next adventure, and so I signed up to be a contestant on SOS Island: a Samsung-sponsored survival show hosted by Les Stroud.
And guess what? I won.
The prize was $100,000 towards an island adventure of my choice. Thus began The Road To Jinja Island.
But before becoming the lord and master of my very own taste of paradise, my girlfriend and I ran around Belize, Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras on what we called The Ruta Maya.
We then travelled south to Bocas Del Toro, Panama where I embarked on an three-year long adventure living off-grid on the tropical island I named Jinja Island.
Arriving at JFK around 8pm local time, I was greeted at the airport, for the first time in my life, by a guy holding a sign with my name on it. Well, almost – he’d missed the second ‘h’ in Hughes. But it’s the thought that counts. Yes indeedy, your humble narrator here got Lincoln’d all the way to Manhattan, courtesy of CBS.
October 2014 – Part 3 It was only a couple of days before Teena from the US of A rose up from the ocean like
October 2014 – Part 1 By October of 2014 I was really getting into the swing of gringo life here on the archipelago. Rana Azul
May 2014 Case and I were picked up by Ian in the morning on his little blue and white speedboat, the Sea Nile, a 1970s
December 2014 Globally, 2014 was the hottest year on record. This is because global warming is a real thing that will eventually affect each and
March 2017 I couldn’t hold on any longer. A few days after my 38th birthday, I said goodbye to my mum and dad and made