2025; as the Russian occupation of Ukraine is ongoing, drive for Ukraine – is my aim to assist with directly driving with some aid and assistance with transport around the border. As I also look to complete the PressGo book, you will see it has a direct connection to my own family and how my own travels started, as well as the past 15 years of traveling to and through the east.
PRESSGO – a book of making progress – clue; it starts with simply setting out!
It’s at the heart of our natural way of being, to follow our instincts, allow uncertainty without being overcome by fear. I think that is at the heart of how these ventures evolved, it’s how my father picked himself up one day and just set off. He didn’t wait for permission.
Moving, moving anywhere or even our things, has always held a certain fascination. If we stop and think, we all do it intuitively. there’s something deep inside our DNA to gather things and move.
In my case, the willingness to just set off and go see, has led to an eclectic mix of totally unrelated adventures, including over a million road miles by motor vehicle, each leading someplace new.
For you – it can be anything you want. You will discover it once you press go and just set off.
The book starts with my fathers own journey, fleeing the Russian occupation of Hungary, at a time where foreign travel was diss-encouraged.
0-60 section – will contain all the useful things to save you time. Not just for travellers, it’s designed to create a little inspiration and stir some humorous memories, especially for those who feel inclined to move someplace forwards from where they currently are.
Useful things – compiled from a million miles
Spontaneous combustions along life’s highway.
Inspired by an anonymous venturer as he set out to explore the freedom of faraway lands at a time when escaping from your own Country was frowned upon, if even for an adventure.
Istvan was my father, who I never got to know so well. His own adventures ended abruptly, crashing his electric scooter at Safeway’s, irony hey! but an adventure all the same.
Whether it’s 30 miles to the store – 300 miles to see friends or 30,000 miles around the world, it all starts exactly the same – just press your go button.
I’ve felt the same nervous trepidation doing all of the above. It’s fine, its natural. For different reasons we can all find ourselves afraid. Cast it aside and follow nature’s momentum. It starts like Istvan, by moving.
Whatever you’d like to do, it’s possible at some level. You’ll need to move, at least to some degree and press your go button.
Later in life, Istvan randomly decided one day that he would move his entire house contents 150 miles to a mystic bungalow in London. The slight issue was, he didn’t actually own or have access to any address what-so-ever in London, nor anywhere else! He’d simply pack up everything he owned, book a van and head out into the unknown, carrying everything he could, once again!
This wasn’t going to deter him, after all he’d already transported himself from Budapest to Britain during the Hungarian uprising in 1956, fleeing from the Soviet’s communist regime invading Hungary.
Escaping without documents and no idea where he’d ultimately end up or what he’d do once he got to wherever he was heading, he must have literally just decided one day ‘I’m not a tree – I can move’ , so off he set with just a bit less than he could carry.
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PressGo evolves with inspiration from Istvan’s willingness to ‘go see for himself’. Spontaneous mystic influences from our past and its ability to bring out the curious venturer in us, however it goes.
I hope that you, the reader, might find it helps you bring to life your own ideas and ventures, however you like to do it.
Useful for travel & adventurers
0-60 section – useful things for venturers
Apart from getting on with it, everything else is largely irrelevant. Or, put another way, you’re not Tutankhamun – you’ll not be keeping it, so ‘Why Worry?’ (incidentally the name of a sinking boat I acquired by accident!)
Ask yourself; “What’s the worst that could happen”?
There’s a large part of training which de-trains us, it throws us off our natural course and tries to align you onto someone else’s track.
It’s not until I started traveling afar that I realized fundamentally everyone is exactly the same. I can walk into a coffee bar, or sit in the dirt and make a coffee – and everyone has just the same curiosity for life, it’s just expressed in different ways, but it’s all survival, fulfillment, love, companionship. Curiosity of the human spirit, or something beyond.
Shaking shackles
We’re pre-conditioned by families and the people we mix with, to respond to situations and opportunities in a certain way, often the perceived normal way. When-ever I listened to this noise, it sounded limiting. I try to block out such noises.
The PressGo book also considers and explores some of the riskier sounding routes, like experimenting, mistakes, trying new things, looking at things from a totally different perspective, or point in time. In motoexplorer traveler terms – it’s like going over the mountain, rather than around it.
2025 > all covered in the new PressGo Venturers book
V1-12ventures – @ age
V1/ @0-6 unlimited V2/ @17 Non-conventional maps V3/ @18 Free feet how far to go V4/ @20 Trading ways freelance V5/ @23 Pyramid Illusions go anyway V6/ @36 Change kickstarts change good age to start V7/ @40 Times around the world a million miles V8/ @43 Buda & Pests wheres where V9/ @47 The way how far is far V10/@50 Make or move with a plan V11/@53 Promised lands and precious chickens (or Why move) ? V12 /@57 MotoXplorer never to old
Route1million Overland Adventures
PressGo – isn’t really a book about motorbiking! it’s an eclectic mix of life-travel-exploring and challenging conventions, with a humorous – like ‘just have a go’ perspective. So diverse, it’s hard to explain! everyone’s selling their own book hey!
It’s also a good way to gather all the information and inspiration to go discover some place, maybe even the Silk Road for yourself, just as you like to find it! go explore by your own steam, gas, hydrogen, electric or what-ever else you might choose!
The world is noisy, we’re becoming conditioned by digital signals and AI machines that think for us. There is so much to be gained and enjoyed simply by embracing our natural spirit and follow your excitable self, rather than allowing yourself to be controlled by machine driven social media or digital institutions in which you probably have no say.
THE ACTUAL PRESSGO BOOK – online work in progress exclusive edition
