Jamie G Mackenzie
It all started when I was born 26 years ago on the 5th August 1978, the second child of Anne and Michael Mackenzie, brother to Kate. My first word was tractor and as far back as I can remember I always wanted to cycle around the world.
We lived behind a car park in a small bungalow at no. 5 Great Oaks, in the grounds of the Oratory School, Reading and in the holidays, with my Grandparents at Scords Farm in Kent.
With my cousins we ruled the farm, a playground of dreams, an education in life. In 1983 we moved into Brook, a wooden cottage at the foot of Toys Hill. I cherished these times, I loved my family and they loved me, they were some of the happiest years of my life. In the winter of ‘97 it changed forever. My Grandpa died early in the New Year and with it, my childhood.
I packed my bags in ‘98, leaving home and family for Northampton. I studied for three years and graduated in the summer of 2001, after working for a year with a ten year old autistic boy I set my sights on a bigger picture, joined the rucksack revolution and began to travel the world.
In April ‘05, life will turn again. Trade dreams for reality, set sail for Dunkirk and bicycle around the earth.
It is the ultimate challenge, the supreme test of body and spirit. There can be no other way to take myself to the brink, beyond and into the unknown. Leaving western ideologies behind to forge a new mind, a new being.
“Free from time, free from the world, Free Wheels East….”
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