Researching Pat Garrod
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1572 people with the Garrod surname? In that year Garrod was ranked number 2116 for popularity in the UK. |
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Pat Garrod
Pat Garrod (b. Chelmsford 1964) is a British physician and long distance motorcyclist. He and his wife Vanessa Lewis undertook a round-the-world ride on a 1991 BMW R100GS, between 1998 and October, 2002.
His 2010 book Bearback — The World Overland describing the 4-year journey was called as a "damned good story" by Overland magazine, and evidence of improving quality in self-published overland adventure books.
After the circumnavigation, Garrod and Lewis crossed Africa twice more by motorcycle. One north-to-south traversal in 2006 was more than long; Garrod's travel log records a total of over in Africa alone.
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