Be Smart

It's an ambitious project: trekking 4,000 miles of jungle paths over an 18 month period. I feel tired just thinking about it (then again, I feel tired just thinking about trekking into the kitchen for a snack, which might explain why it's almost dinner time and I still haven't had lunch. But I digress...)

I can't think why friends Ed Stafford and Luke Collyer, both from Britain, thought that an iPod (plus solar charger) wasn't an essential item for their trip in the first place. Or why they believed that they wouldn't get sick of each others' company after so darn long. But they were optimistic and naive, and their story came to a sorry head on day 68 of their journey, when Luke told Ed he was sick of the sight of him.