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Gregs Tour Divide Ramblings

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So I decided to blog my whole Divide day by day while I was working on my photos

ImageDSC00459-Edit.jpg by Greg.May, on Flickr

Long term plan is to go back to this - edit it - then combine it into a short publication. That will be a month or so off.

All of these were written in one sitting, with no editing to the words after I'd typed them (puke draft), so it can feel a bit raw in placed. But that was what I wanted, not a glossy happy shiny BS write up about how I found myself. The truth is far more interesting.

Enjoy.

Preamble: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3060
Day 1: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3071
Day 2: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3084
Day 3: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3098
Day 4: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3109
Day 5: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3128
Day 6: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3140
Day 7: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3157
Day 8: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3174
Day 9: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3192
Day 10: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3223
Day 11: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3232
Day 12: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3264
Day 13: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3276
Day 14: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3290
Day 15: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3323
Day 16: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3331
Day 17: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3359
Day 18: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3361
Day 19: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3374
Day 20: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3462
Finish: http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=3486
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I've been reading them as you've been publishing them. Great read and a nice, honest approach. Good job!
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Cheers for that Insight into your tour divide. About half way so far and loving it :-bd
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*nods*

Impressive food gorging. Have another.
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I've just finished all of them. Really enjoyed your account Greg thanks for writing that all up.
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You're welcome Dave - still debating if I should edit to make less...well, sweary or not.
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Great read, I've also just sat and read them all much to my girlfriends annoyance as the dishes still aren't done!
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Thanks for the write up, I've just read all the posts over the evening and it was like a book i couldn't put down!

Again, well done for finishing.
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Excellent honest write up....took me most of the afternoon/evening
To read it all, as to which wifey was most impressed :o
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just read that in one go, joys of being off work. brilliant read that Greg. proper enjoyed it.
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You're all welcome :)
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Thanks for posting. An excellent read.

Personally, i would say don't edit it, as it reads so well as is.
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Enjoyed that. An epic read of an epic ride. Keeping going when it gets really tough is a true ahow of mental strength - well done fella!
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For those interested, issue 009 of Grit.cx has an article, and photos, that I wrote:

ImageDSC01522.jpg by Greg.May, on Flickr

You can get it here: http://grit.cx/magarchive/issue-009
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