- Boring to Dull: Some statisticsI promised to provide some numbers about the epic trip I just completed. It’s a fiddly business; but below is what I have … Continue reading “Boring to Dull: Some statistics”
I’m Mark Wedgwood. In summer and autumn 2023 I’m doing a very interesting cycle ride between the world’s most tedious paired communities: from Boring (Oregon, USA) to Dull (Scotland, UK).
I left Boring on 9th August – officially “Boring and Dull Day” – on a 4,000-mile odyssey. I will cross a dozen US states (and Ontario, Canada), then the north of Iceland – to visit the Arctic Circle – followed by the Faroes and finally Scotland. It takes in some remarkable and varied geography, people and culture. It should, indeed, be really interesting!
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In 2022 I became the first person to ride across all of Britain’s 204 Ordnance Survey Landranger maps in order: a journey of six months and 7,300 miles.
Read about the OS Maps trip
