A report on the BBC about a lady travelling from Kenya to Nigeria. Nothing unusual or newsworthy you may be thinking? She had been confined to a wheelchair following a car accident and hadn’t ridden a bike - pedal or powered- before buying her 250cc bike and getting a weeks training and then setting off.
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You will have to do without pocket handkerchiefs, and a great many other things, before we reach our journey's end, Bilbo Baggins. You were born to the rolling hills and little rivers of the Shire, but home is now behind you. The world is ahead.
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