Title: 256 New York Minutes Published: 14th November 2009
Our US correspondent Nick Elandimer reports on the grand finale of Ray’s global “Calling All Angels” Fundraising Campaign. Over the last six months, Ray has been preparing for a huge challenge – running in the 40th New York Marathon. Find out how he got on in the full, exciting story of the race itself and some highlights from his eight day visit to the ‘Big Apple’.
Title: Cheerio Chiang Mai Published: 18th October 2009
Ray has spent the last six months preparing to run in the New York Marathon. Since he arrived in Chiang Mai in mid April, he has clocked up well over 800 miles on the road and running track! Find out how he does in his second half-marathon (the River Kwai International) and battles with a series of injuries which could potentially ruin his performance in New York. And as Ray departs Chiang Mai for the big race, we take a brief look at some highlights from his recent social calendar.
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Title: Birthdays and Broken Records Published: 9th September 2009
Since our global nomad arrived in Chiang Mai to start training in mid April, he has clocked up nearly 700 miles on the road and track – and has replaced his first (worn out) pair of running shoes! Me So Fit discovers that he has recently set new personal bests for both times and distances as he works towards his goal of running the marathon in under four hours, and also reveals how Ray and Nikki celebrated their recent birthdays.
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Title: On Track in Pattaya Published: 28th July 2009
Our global nomad completes the first of two half marathon races in Pattaya, Thailand during his build up to the New York marathon. Since the start of his training in mid April, Ray has clocked up a staggering 500 miles of running! Our Health correspondent Me So Fit follows Ray as he makes a brief visit to the southern gulf island of Ko Samui and finds out what Ray’s ‘visa’ run to Myanmar (formerly Burma) is all about.
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Title: Half Marathon Man Published: 5th July 2009
Our global nomad prepares for the first of two half marathon races in Thailand during his build up to the New York Marathon on 1st November. Since the start of his training in mid April, Ray has clocked up a staggering 350 miles of running! Our Asian correspondent (Me So Fit) also finds out about one or two of Ray’s more interesting social activities and we get an update on Ray’s marathon fundraising campaign from Ivana Getachek.
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Title: Return to Elephant Heaven Published: 14th June 2009
Our Asian correspondents Me So Fit brings us Ray’s latest news and pictures from Chiang Mai in Thailand. Our global adventurer returns to the Elephant Nature Park, which he is running to support in the New York Marathon. Now a few weeks into his his gruelling six month training programme, Ray has clocked up in excess of 250 miles of running! Our roving reporter Amber Solaire interviews Ray’s marathon coach.
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Title: Marathon Man Published: 18th May 2009
Our Asian correspondent, Me So Fit makes his debut for The Daily Explorer. He will be bringing us all of the news and pictures from Chiang Mai in Thailand as Ray undertakes his gruelling 26 week training programme to be ready for the New York Marathon on 1st November. Already in his first four weeks of training, Ray has clocked up a staggering 108 miles of running!
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Title: Adios California Published: 22nd April 2009
Our American guest correspondent Nick Elandimer compiles the latest news and pictures as Ray and Nikki complete their tour of California, visiting Lake Tahoe and the beautiful city of San Francisco. They also spent some time exploring the picturesque Pacific Coast Highway, stopping at Carmel, Monterey and the Big Sur.
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Title: From The Strip to Seattle Published: 8th April 2009
Our American guest correspondent, Nick Elandimer compiles the latest news and pictures as Ray and Nikki continue their tour of California and beyond on the west coast of America. Find out what happened when they visited Las Vegas, Yosemite National Park and Seattle in Washington State..0
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Title: Arizona Rocks! Published: 18th March 2009
Our American guest correspondent, Nick Elandimer brings us the latest news and pictures as Ray returns to the USA after a brief stopover in London. Find out what happened when Ray met his friends in Sacramento and visited Sedona for the annual Film Festival. The awesome Grand Canyon was also on his itinerary.
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Title: Namaste Nepal Published: 23rd February 2009
Dolly Lama brings us the latest news and pictures as Ray returns from Tibet to Nepal, to complete his three month tour by visiting Lumbini – the birthplace of the Buddha. Ray also explores Nagarkot and Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu before leaving Nepal.
Title: Seven Days in Tibet Published: 8th February 2009
Our new guest correspondent – Dolly Lama – one of the most experienced online journalists of her generation, joins our team for a few days to follow Ray as he explores the remote wilderness of Tibet, seeing in the New Year in the country known as the ‘Roof of the World’.
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Title: From Pokhara to Patan Published: 6th January 2009
In our first issue in 2009, our guest correspondent, Seymour Peaks returns from his Christmas break to bring us the latest news as Ray continues to explore the ancient, mountainous country of Nepal. He provides us with some stunning photographs from Ray’s 6 day trek from Pokhara to the Annapurna Base Camp and highlights from Ray’s visit to some of the historic sights around Kathmandu, including Patan, Bodhnath and Pashupatinath.
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Title: Around Annapurna in 18 Days (Part Two) Published: 13th December 2008
In the second part of a two part feature from Nepal, Seymour Peaks brings us more news and pictures from the Annapurna circuit as Ray completes the remaining 13 days of his 200 mile, 18 day route through one of the highest regions on earth. Find out what happens as he triumphantly conquers the world’s biggest mountain pass at Thorung La at an altitude of nearly 18,000 feet, and then descends from the mountains to complete his trip in Pokhara.
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Title: Around Annapurna in 18 Days (Part One) Published: 2nd December 2008
The first part of a two part feature from Nepal by new guest correspondent, Seymour Peaks. He makes his debut on our team and accompanies Ray on his first high altitude trek around the Himalayas. Find out what he experienced as he explored Kathmandu and then set off to trek around the ‘Annapurna circuit’ – one of the top ten most popular treks in the world. Share the experience, day by day, as he ascends the first five days of the 200 mile, 18 day route through one of the highest regions on earth.
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Title: From Sandpaper to Silk Published: 6th November 2008
Meeting Nikki in the beautiful Indonesian island of Bali, Ray begins the research for their forthcoming trip to Nepal. You can find out more about their week of exploration in Bali and their whirlwind, two day stop over in Singapore, prior to their arrival in Kathmandu.
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Title: Fr0m Adelaide to Darwin (Part Two) Published: 13th October 2008
Our guest correspondent Chuck Maboomerang completes our special two part feature from Australia. He follows Ray as he heads to the ‘Top End’ and explores Alice Springs and the spectacular MacDonnell Ranges. He then takes the famous Ghan train to Katherine and visits the fast growing city of Darwin to complete his 64 day tour of Australia.
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Title: From Adelaide to Darwin (Part One) Published: 4th October 2008
In the first of a two-part feature from Australia, guest correspondent Chuck Maboomerang follows Ray as he leaves Sydney to begin a 3,000 kilometre journey from Adelaide in the south, to Darwin in the north. He finds out what our global traveller got up to during his last few days in the capital and who he met during a brief stopover in Melbourne. Chuck then tracks Ray’s progress to the tiny, desolate mining town of Coober Pedy and on to Uluru and Kings Canyon in the centre of Australia.
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Title: Kangaroos, Koalas and World Peace Published: 19th September 2008
Guest correspondent Chuck Maboomerang finds out more about Ray’s first visit to Brisbane, where he makes a special trip to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary just outside the city. And he follows our intrepid explorer as he meets with a few business contacts in Sydney, to explore the possibility of some professional work in 2009 (in Australia). This issue also contains information about ‘Peace One Day’ – an event of global significance which takes place every year on 21st September.
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Title: Elephants and Lions Published: 26th August 2008
Ray finds out about an amazing woman who has established a ground-breaking wildlife sanctuary for elephants near Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. And the inside track on how Ray and Nikki, our Leo travellers, decided to celebrate their August birthdays, which were six days apart.
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Title: Man of a Thousand Days (Part Two) – How it All Began Published: 8th August 2008
Ray celebrates a milestone in his personal journey. He has been living nomadically for one thousand consecutive days since he left England on 12th November 2005! During that time, he has visited or travelled through twelve countries spread around the world. Many readers ask for more information about the background to Ray’s decision to swap his conventional life for one of travel, exploration and uncertainty. We interviewed him at length and published his whole truthful story, uncut and straight from the source. For the first time, Ray lets us into his personal and private world. He reveals what really happened, reviewing the catalytic events that were taking place in 2003-5 which signified enormous change and describes how he responded to them. He helps us join the dots in a seemingly random chain of events that lead to the start of the incredible journey he has been on and recalls how things curiously unfolded in a way he could never have foreseen.
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Title: Man of a Thousand Days (Part One) Published: 30th July 2008
A special issue of The Daily Explorer that commemorates a milestone for Ray, who has been living nomadically for one thousand consecutive days since he left England on 12th November 2005! During that time, he has visited or travelled through twelve countries spread around the world. To mark the occasion, we asked Ray to trawl through all 60 previous issues of The Daily Explorer and our sister publication, The Daily Lama, and choose some of his favourite pictures or moments from the first two and half years.
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Title: New York, James Bond and Beyond Published: 20th June 2008
We find out how our global traveller got on during his brief return to professional life, with the first two training programmes in Basel and New Jersey (USA). And we catch up with him at the ‘Casino Royale’ party in London, thrown in honour of his brothers 50th birthday. And there is also an insight into Ray’s world view after a powerful, eye opening one day seminar in Brixton with David Icke.
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Title: Basel Beckons Published: 26th May 2008
Our global traveller returns from Thailand for a brief re-entry into the business world. And we follow him during a lively couple of weeks in his social calendar, before he heads off to Switzerland to begin work.
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Title: Sun, Sea and Songkran Published: 30th April 2008
Our global traveller visits southern Thailand to explore the remote, sun-kissed island of Ko Lipe on the Malaysian border and then heads to Ko Samui in the Gulf of Thailand, to rendezvous with friends in time for the Thai New Year festival known as ‘Songkran’. Amber Solaire, editor of our sister publication, The Daily Lama, kindly accepted our invitation to be ‘guest’ editor for this issue.
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Title: Thai-ing the Knot Published: 14th April 2008
Our global traveller returns to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand for a few weeks, and travels south for the traditional Thai wedding of friend and fellow English teaching student Paul Smith. Amber Solaire, editor of our sister publication, The Daily Lama, kindly accepted our invitation to be ‘guest’ editor for this issue.
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Title: The End of an Era Published: 23rd March 2008
Our global traveller has been in London for a ‘longer than normal’ stay, to plan his year ahead, review things in general after nearly 850 days of life on the road and sell First Place, his consulting business – after eleven years.
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Title: In Memory of Alan Gray Published: 12th February 2008
Our first issue of The Daily Explorer in 2008. We chose to dedicate this issue to Alan Gray, who died suddenly on Christmas Day. Alan was a very special man and will be greatly missed by his family and friends. Towards the end of this issue, you can read more about the wake that was held for him as Ray returned to London (from the U.S.) at the end of January.
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Title: California Dreaming (Part Two) Published: 25th December 2007
In our last issue of 2007, our American correspondent Nick Elandimer brings you news and pictures from Sacramento, where Ray has been staying with his long time friend Nic Meredith. He reveals how Ray got on when he went to visit Alcatraz in the heart of San Francisco Bay, and presents highlights of Ray’s ‘road-trip’ in an RV to Grass Valley and Nevada City.
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Title: Christmas Video Special 2007 Published: 24th December 2007
As Ray is such a regular user and fan of YouTube, we asked him if he would compile a special selection of clips for our last issue of 2007. He trawled through his personal favourites and put together this timeless collection, which we are delighted to present here, in his ‘Top Ten’ Clips for Christmas.
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Title: California Dreaming (Part One) Published: 13th December 2007
Guest correspondent Nick Elandimer reports on Ray’s arrival in California, on the west coast of America. He visits San Francisco where he attends a two day film school, links up with some very special old friends and makes contact with some newer ones he met whilst travelling in Asia. And he takes in some of the unforgettable sights in and around the Bay area.
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Title: A Bite of the Big Apple Published: 3rd December 2007
New guest correspondent Nick Elandimer joins our team and follows Ray as he explores ’The Big Apple’. In town for the New York Marathon, our global traveller re-discovers some of the incredible things this 24 hour city has to offer. Follwing some sight-seeing, Ray meets with a former business colleague to prepare for a brief re-entry into the world of consulting and training in 2008.
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Title: From Seville to the Souks Published: 10th Novembe 2007
Guest correspondent Matt Adore picks up Ray’s trail as he heads for Seville to see his good friend Dave Cox and explore the amazing, colourful city that has become Dave’s home. Our traveller also makes a day visit to the growing coastal town of Cadiz before leaving Spain for a whirlwind three day visit to Marrakech, in nearby Morocco.
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Title: Seven days at Cortijo Romero Published: 24th October 2007
Ray leaves the UK again and heads for Spain. During his first week there, he participated in a personal development course at the holistic retreat centre called Cortijo Romero. Our new guest correspondent, Matt Adore, went there to find out more.
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Title: Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner! Published: 17th October 2007
Having cut short his visit to the Carribean, Ray has an emotional re-union with Nikki in London. We discover there is a possible re-entry into the business world for Ray in 2008 and we bring you up to date with the latest news, pictures and stories about people Ray has been catching up with in and around London.
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Title: St. Maarten Part Two (The Return) Published: 4th September 2007
Ray prepares to leave the small Carribean island of St. Maarten, haiving completed a scuba dive and become a local business celebrity. Our new guest correspondent, Razz Starman, updates us with all the latest news and pictures as Ray visits Philipsburg, Pelican Bay, Simpsons Bay and Marigot.
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Title: 610 Days on the Road to St. Maarten Published: 2nd August 2007
Guest correspondent Carrie Bean updates us from the island of St. Maarten. On the road for over 600 days since leaving the UK in November 2005, Ray has travelled half way around the globe from Sydney Australia, to the Caribbean (via London for a short stop) and is getting to grips with island life
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Title: From Mount Cook to Christchurch Published: 23rd June 2007
In our final issue from guest correspondent Ma Orihaka, we catch up with Ray on the final leg of his three month New Zealand tour, as he makes a visit to Mount Cook – the tallest mountain in Australasia. And Ma also reports on Ray’s trip to the south island’s largest city – Christchurch.
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Title: The Worlds Fastest Indian Published 12th June 2007
Guest correspondent Ma Orihaka catches up with Ray as he pays homage to Bert Munro, better known to most people as ’The World’s Fastest Indian’, in Invercargill. And she continues with him on his journey as he meanders through The Catlins, to Dunedin and beyond.
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Title: Beer, Ice, Bungy & Pancakes on the West Coast Published: 30th May 2007
Guest correspondent Ma Orihaka catches up with Ray as he leaves Kaikoura and heads for the west coast. Read about his visit to Monteith’s Brewery in Greymouth, the famous ‘Pancake’ rocks at Punakaiki and an amazing one day hike on the Franz Josef Glacier. And don’t miss our exclusive video coverage of the fufillment of one of Ray’s life ambitions - the sensational ’Nevis’ high wire bungy jump in Queenstown.
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Title: Back to Nature Published 22nd May 2007
Guest correspondent Ma Orihaka follows Ray as he enjoys the natural wonders of the south island, including walking the famous Abel Tasman Coastal Track and watching sperm whales offshore in Kaikoura.
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Title: On the way to Wellington Published: 10th May 2007
Guest correspondent Ma Orihaka writes about the beautiful to the bizarre, as Ray winds his way along the ‘Forgotten World’ Highway to New Plymouth, admires the wonderful Mt. Taranaki, discovers that Elvis is alive and well in Hawera and goes on a trip with the Postman in Wanganui! He then heads for the capital, Wellington before making his crossing to the south island.
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Title: It’s a long way to Tongariro Published: 30th April 2007
Guest correspondent Ma Orihaka catches up with Ray as he heads for Highway 35 and the ‘Eastlands’ region of the north island. After a short stay in the unique ‘Prison’ backpackers hostel in Napier, he heads back inland to make the much anticipated Tongariro Crossing – one of New Zealand’s most famous hikes and rated one of the top one day walks in the world.
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Title: From Maunganui to Middle Earth Published: 21st April 2007
Guest correspondent Ma Orihaka follows Ray to the ‘Bay of Plenty’ for a re-union with his friend Kathy in Tauranga, and witnesses his first ever tandem skydive! Ma also gives us an idea of what Ray got up to in the Coromandel Peninsula - one of the most beautiful places on the north island. And last but not least, ‘Lord of the Rings’ fans can read about Ray’s visit to the ‘Hobbiton’ film set in Matamata, where ‘The Shire’ scenes were filmed.
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Title: Auckland and the Northlands Published: 11th April 2007
In the first ever issue of The Daily Explorer, guest correspondent Ma Orihaka follows Ray as he begins his three month tour of New Zealand. He jumps from the top of the southern hemisphere’s tallest building and visits Cape Rienga in the far north. Ray experiences the black sand at Karekare, Lake Taharoa, Waipoua, Whangaroa, the famous 90 mile beach and the awesome giant sand dunes at Te Paki. And he tours the Bay of Islands and the epicentre of Maori culture at the Waitangi reserve.
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Prior to April 2007
The inspiration for The Daily Explorer came from its fore-runner and sister publication, The Daily Lama. Ray’s first ever online travel publication, it was jointly created with fellow traveller Nikki Ashley, with the first issue being published in December 2005. The Daily Lama was co-edited by Amber Solaire and we assembled a team of top quality, experienced journalists. Over the 18 months of the publication’s life, it was a huge success. Over 16,000 visitors went online to read about Ray and Nikki’s adventures in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Australia and thousands more still continue to search for and read these stories every day. Many of the issues published included video clips and presented a tongue-in-cheek view of life on the road, as well as substantial factual information about all of the places they visited. If you would like to read any of the 37 issues of The Daily Lama that were published between December 2005 – March 2007, then look through our Daily Lama Archives.
If you have any questions about The Daily Lama, The Daily Explorer, Ray or his travel plans, please email me at mozzie@thedailyexplorer.com
MOZZIE BYTE
