The Dom way round: October 2013

Monday, 14 October 2013

Saturday 23rd November NEC Motorcycle Live...

Forty days to go!

The cover design has been finalised. Indepenress have the final manuscript and it should be going off to the printers next week!

I'm now working on my Press Release and promotional material. It just seems like it will never end...

I'm still tweeting a sentence from my book every day and posting a photo every day on my FB page.

The countdown continues

Friday, 4 October 2013

At last - a launch date...

Fifteen years in the planning...One year in the riding...Two years in the writing...

I now have a date for my book. It's going to be published and on sale from Saturday 23rd November 2013. I'm launching at the NEC Motorcycle Live in Birmigham UK, with the help of Overland Magazine.

I'm really excited about this and almost can't believe it's finally happening. The last two years have seemed long, reading, redrafting, reading and checking over and over again. But finally we are there and GONE RIDING will be on sale in 50 days from now.

To celebrate I'm going to post a new picture every day on my Facebook page and tweet a sentence from my book every day on my twitter account. @DomGiles1

50 days to go...

Find out more on my website domgiles.co.uk

Hello

Hi. My name is Dom and in July 2010 I rode a motorcycle (partly) around the world. I started in Alaska and headed for Panama. It took me 6 months and I covered 21,000 miles. I then shipped my bike from Panama to South Africa. I returned to the UK for February and in March 2011 I flew to South Africa. Starting in Cape Town I took three months (and 9,000 miles) to get to Nairobi.

As well as riding a bike I stopped off and did some voluntary work along the way. In Mexico I worked on a turtle rescue project for two weeks and in Costa Rica at a Sloth Sanctuary for three weeks. In Cape Town I taught for three weeks in a Primary school in a township.

In North America my wife, Tracy, came out for three weeks and also joined me for two months in Central America.

I returned to the UK in June 2011. Although I'd kept a blog (obviously) throughout the trip I honestly had no desire to try to write a book. But that changed. Within days of getting home I started writing. Then in Autumn 2011 I found out about The Ted Simon Foundation and applied to be a Jupiter's Traveller. Unbelievably they accepted me and I starting a whole new, and much more frightening, adventure... Trying to write a book about my trip.

'Gone Riding' was published in November 2013. Signed copies are available direct from me at www.domgiles.co.uk. The book is also on Amazon where you can also get the kindle edition. There is lots more information about my trip and the book on my website where you'll find links to my Facebook page and Twitter account.

I now use this blog to write about my current bike trips. In 2013 we went to Scandinavia for the summer and in 2014 we went to Romania. Summer 2015 was spent solo around the Balkans. In July 2016 I went to Poland, the Baltic and Finland.

In the summer of 2017 we went to Northern Spain and France and in 2018 we went to Ireland.

I sold my bike in January 2019!!!