Welcome to a new Thorny adventure
Welcome to Thorny Devil’s Sporting Odyssey 2024. Thorny will be watching and experiencing sporting events throughout Europe and the USA while travelling through 17 countries on his epic adventure. He will be accompanied by Mamfa (middle-aged man from Ashburton) trying to relive past dreams of sporting greatness (they were just dreams). Join this unlikely pair as they travel the continents in search of great sporting moments while soaking up the local passion for their teams.
The main events include the French Open tennis, a bike ride through the Baltic states, Euro Football Championships, Austrian Gran Prix, Tour de France, Paris Olympics, Premier League football, British Open golf, US Open tennis, Nascar, baseball, NFL and College Football and trying to find some other local sporting events along the way – maybe some darts, disc golf, cricket, cheese rolling or whatever comes up.
They will also do some sightseeing along the way so Mamfa can get his engineering nerdiness satisfied as well.
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Days 115-117: New York to Home!
The flight home wasn’t until 7:20pm so Mamfa did a morning run and we had a late checkout before heading to JFK. Day 116 disappeared completely as we crossed the International Date Line en route to a 2hr layover in Auckland. It was then on to Sydney before finally arriving in Melbourne on Day 117…
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Day 114: Boston to New York
Just a travel day today on the train back to New York. Some very nice scenery along the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut. This day in sporting history (17 September) 1920 National Football League is born in Canton, Ohio; 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Professional Football Association; renamed the NFL in 1922
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Day 113: Boston
A fairly relaxed day around Boston today starting with a wander through Harvard (which is actually in Cambridge). The John Harvard Statute of Three Lies is named such because it isn’t John Harvard (no one knows what he looked like), he wasn’t even the founder of the Uni and the date on the statue is…
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