Q: how experienced do you have to be to embark on a adventure like this?

>> JASON: Steve and I had less than 10 days worth of sea experience between us before setting out to pedal the 4,300 miles across the Atlantic Ocean in 1994. The only real training we'd had for deep ocean navigating was a theory based Yacht Master's course back in London.

April had never been to sea before she pedaled 1,100 miles across the Coral Sea from the Solomon Islands to Australia.

I'd been out just a few times on rollerblades before setting out from Miami in May, 1995 to eventually become the first to cross the US solo on in-line skates.

Jenny Mackenzie had never ridden a bike more than a few miles before pedaling 3,500 miles from San Francisco to Guatemala.

So as you can see, Expedition 360 is not about experts doing what they know they can do. It’s about ordinary people doing rather out-of-the-ordinary things. It’s more about attitude than proven experience or fancy gear.

Anything can be accomplished – from an individual achieving their own dream to humanity living sustainably within the biological constraints of the planet – if we just put out hearts and minds to it.

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