The Yakman can seat on something else than a saddle and look at something different from a new horizon. Since he traded his bicycle for a computer, he did not suffer one puncture.
Since Redfish began animating his Web site, he sent news as regularly as possible. Some friends even enjoyed personal writing as everyone would like to receive every day.
Articles have proven to be a good way of telling stories while transmitting the gospel of bicycle travel and earn the Yakman his daily forage. He's published many texts on his journey's Web site.
And although the Yakman catches up ever faster with the skills needed from an e-citizen of our e-world, paper is still important to him, as show the German and French versions of his Songwheels. He's been working on the book for most of the Autumn and Winter of 2001-2002.
Claude's book proved far more
difficult to read than anticipated, and for more reasons than was first
thought. There was an obvious one, bigger than any other: how can one
contract within a few hundred pages seven years of adventure?
There was although a psychological dimension to that book. Publishing
in any form deals with deadlines on a daily basis. Although writers and
journalists are known for being traditionally late in everything they
write, Claude could not really afford to do that. And after years of not
knowing where his wheels would stop the next day, he had to bridge the
gap between a hard-pedaling poetic traveler and a hard-working sedentary
writer.
Throughout his journey and after he arrived, press
was a logical media for storytelling, showcasing of a vast collection
of photographs, and it was simply a quick way of earning some money during
and after the travel. And although he seems to have replanted his roots
firmly into Swiss ground, Claude already has new press projects to work
on.