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Episode 1: ‘Cycling To America’ |
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is the first in the series and will take you from the very start
of the project – the initial idea, building of the pedal
boat, etc – to the launch from the Greenwich Meridian Line
in July 1994, the pedaling of the Channel in Moksha a few days
later, the bike ride through France, Spain and Portugal, and
ultimately the program highlight: Steve and Jason pedaling 4,300
miles in 111 days across the Atlantic Ocean to Miami. |
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Episode 2: ‘Into the Pacific’ |
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up from Steve and Jason’s triumphant arrival into Miami
Florida, ‘Into the Pacific’ will lead you the two
different routes across the USA that Steve and Jason took:
Steve biking with his companion Eilbhe though the deep south;
Jason rollerblading through the centre states. You’ll
see Jason’s operation after being run over by a car on
the highway in Colorado, breaking both legs. Nine months later
he’s out of the wheel chair and up skating the final
1,700 miles to San Francisco with April, an American school
teacher who is destined to rejoin the expedition in episode
3.
After
settling their differences, Steve and Jason then regroup and
together pedal the 2,300 miles from San Francisco to Hilo,
Hawaii, where Steve decides he has had enough and leaves the
expedition. Jason carries on alone, gradually spiralling into
a gibbering loon on a grueling 73-day, 2,400-mile solo crossing
to the tiny coral atoll of Tarawa in pedal boat Moksha. |
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Episode 3: ‘Road to Australia’ |
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Chris
Tipper, one of the two original builders of the pedal boat,
joins Jason for a humorous 21-day pedal to the war-torn Solomon
Islands (1,100 miles). April then re-enters the story, helping
Jason to pedal the remaining 1,100 miles to Australia. This
is the first time a woman has been aboard and, unfortunately
for poor April who has never been on a boat before, it turns
out to be the most challenging section of the Pacific voyage
so far: gale force winds and 20+ ft waves pound the boat for
the entire 32-day crossing, pushing the tiny craft towards Papua
New Guinea and threatening to wash the entire expedition up
on the Great Barrier Reef! Find out how this epic 7,800 mile
crossing of the Pacific Ocean – the first in history by
pedal power – turns out.
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Episode 4: ‘Destination Darwin’ |
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A
group of 7 largely inexperienced adventurers from varying walks
of life join Jason for a 3,100-mile mountain bike ride across
the outback of Australia from Cairns to Darwin, using virtually
no roads. Three of the members are teenagers from the US and
Australia who, not surprisingly, turn out to be the strongest
riders and most resilient to the heat, flies and critters they
encounter along the way. One of the adults - a truck salesman
from Salt Lake City - nurtures an increasing dislike for Jason's
leadership style as the adventure unfolds. By the time they
reach Darwin Jason and Mike are close to physical confrontation.
All this and a croc they encounter in a river in the Northern
Territory, an inland Taipan (the world's # 1 deadly snake) and
a pre-med student from Ohio who jumps tour-bus in the Simpson
desert to join this dysfunctional band of wannabe expeditioneers.
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