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Err, why this?

A friend once said of adventure books (cue sarcastic voice) ‘..some hard stuff happened, then you climbed Mount Everest and wrote a book about it’…

Well, some hard stuff did happen a few years ago now, but here’s the five reasons I decided to do this:

I first owned a unicycle in 2005, but it sat in my friend’s garage for 10 years
I don’t mind a bike ride all over the place, it was my fave thing to do as a youngster
I just always wanted to do this. Since 2011. I don’t really know why. I just did
I had a tough relationship with someone very difficult and said it would be easier to ride a unicycle around the world, than to have had that relationship. I'm just going to test that theory out now..

About Me

My background

Hi, I'm Kelli.

I wasn't a sports star at school. But I did ride my bike (a normal bike with two wheels), everywhere as a teenager.

I did some study, became an accountant, got a mortgage. And then got a life shock.

My story

My background

I almost didn't make it through 2015, and decided that in celebration of being alive, I was going to do 'something interesting' with my life

My adventures

My background

My adventures

That 'something interesting' turned out to be unicycling the world.

Only I couldn't actually ride a unicycle..

Why I decided to unicycle the world

where am i now..

Work on your insides first

I had to shift from being an unfit, overweight accountant (with ZERO balance), to someone who can ride bigger unicycles, long distances. I had to understand how to shift my identity, which in turn changed my habits.

There was alot of internal work I had to do on myself, to get to the starting line for this. It wasn't just about learning to unicycle...

Listen to this podcast interview with me by jacob sokol

Taiwan

Work on your insides first

During big adventure planning, it's easy to get bored and stale, and think you're not making progress (and actually not making progress).

So why not throw an unexpected challenge into the mix?

In October 2018, I rode a unicycle for 11 days, and 430 kilometres, the length of Taiwan.

intrepid magazine's article about my ride in Taiwan

Future Adventures

Work on your insides first

Future Adventures

There's plenty more unicycle adventure training and preparation under way.

This year I'm heading off to ride Korea, and Papua New Guinea.

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