There can be all manner of reasons to take
a long journey – a desire to expand one’s horizons;
a need to re-charge the batteries; an irresistible case of wanderlust.
But for Derek Cullen, his current odyssey has a rather more poignant
reason.
The 32-year-old Dubliner is midway through
a monumental jaunt that was inspired – if that’s
the correct word – by the death of both his parents.
Mr Cullen lost both his mother and father
to cancer ‘a few years ago’ – and came to the conclusion that life is too short
to waste being ‘crippled by fear and anxieties.’
是什麼原因能夠讓一個人可以不顧一切獨自去旅行？是為了開拓視野、自我沉澱，還是天生就渴望著流浪？對於32歲的愛爾蘭男子 Derek Cullen 來說，這趟史詩般的非洲之旅有著更深層的意義。幾年前，Cullen 的父母相繼因癌症而去世，他感受到生命的短暫，並意識到自己不能再將生命浪費在退縮與畏懼之中，於是萌生了非洲單車行的念頭。
