Author: Joel Griffett
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Valparaiso: where the trail begins?
Pre-order ‘Long Road to Nowhere: The Lost Years of Richard Trevithick (Part One)’ now, HERE. I left Santiago in style. The Salon Cama buses here are luxury business class style seats that recline 140 degrees, spaced apart so well that you can recline the whole way without infuriating the person behind you (overly). Thank the…
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The Myth of the Trail (Create your own legend and tell it to your son)
Fact and fiction blur together everywhere we look. If you tell a lie enough times it becomes the truth and a good story is a good story, regardless of whether it is ‘true’ or not. Who is to say, in the age of endless information, rolling news cycles and a constant power shift that tries…
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Sleepless in Santiago
Pre-order ‘Long Road to Nowhere: The Lost Years of Richard Trevithick (Part One)’ now, HERE. 16/9/2022 – When I touched down in Santiago de Chile on Thursday morning all I could dream of was sleep, but the umpteenth coffee of the night/morning sent me full circle. In total it took over 16 hours in the…
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Welcome to The Trevithick Trail
Pre-order ‘Long Road to Nowhere: The Lost Years of Richard Trevithick (Part One)’ now, HERE. Anywhere in the world you come across a mine, the chances are someone British was at one time bankrolling it and someone Cornish was down there with a lovely bit of crib in his lunchbox. In the mid-19th century at…
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