Long gone in the back of beyond

At the end of 2017 I left England and flew to the other side of the earth in a desperate bid to treat an almost ten year long depression that had crippled me in my teens and still hung heavy around my neck as I began my twenties.

Long gone in the back of beyond is a project pulling together the journals I wrote, memories I made, and photos I took as I stumbled into a journey that would take me over 20,000 kilometres around Australia on a bicycle. I’m not sure how long the writing of this will take, nor how long the result will be but the first part is more or less complete and I’m keen to hear what you think of it.

• Chapter 1: Half a world away

Appendices:

• The sunburnt country
• Lessons from the back of beyond