It’s Gregg Holmes, a 56-year-old agricultural fencing contractor from New Zealand, who did Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, travelling on a Honda Africa Twin, and is now heading back north. RetirementWhen I retired as a staffer with The Irish Times almost exactly a year ago, people expressed their delight for me. I’m riding my motorbike, a BMW R1200 GS Adventure from Tierra del Fuego at South America’s southern-most tip to Alaska, the opposite way to Holmes and most other bikers – but why not? The result was A Sort of Pilgrimage, a series I wrote for The Irish Times. We slept together nightly, ate, drank and watched TV together (she even attended editorial conferences in The Irish Times and made everyone smile).

Source: The Irish Times March 21, 2020 06:00 UTC