when Josie Dew was young, she fell out of a car, so she has never learnt to drive.
She was still at primary school when she decided she wanted to travel so when she was eleven she decided to go for long bike rides, and cycled 40 or 50 miles every day.
Josie says The only good thing about secondary school was cycling there and back. I left when I was 16 I love cooking, so I started a business. I cooked three-course meals, and delivered them by bike In 1985, as soon as I had some money, I cycled to Africa and back.
Josie has been to 40 countries and all kinds of interesting experiences. She has cycled through the Himalayan mountains in Nepal. Then down into India. She has cycled through millions of locusts in the Moroccan desert. She has travelled through tornados in the USA. She was in Romania on Christmas Day in 1989 when President Ceausescu was executed by the Government. And she hasn't been to Egypt yet.because when she was in Turkey, a was Started nearby. So she went to Greece instead.
She has sometimes travelled with friends. Boyfriends and even her mother, but she has often cycled alone,She had only one really frightening experience-a man attacked her in Bulgaria.In 1997 she hurt her knee very badly, so she started writing books about her journeys. She's written five books,and now she's on her bike again! At the moment she's planning to cycle around New Zealand