The hype about his soul-baring confessional journey, which ends with a face-to-face with the goddess of forgiveness, Oprah Winfrey, is a veritable emotional tsunami.

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For the flying side of the equation, it asks for origin and destination airports, estimated check-in time and the estimated ground transportation costs to and from the airport on both ends of the journey.

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The pilgrimage from garage to marketplace is a chaotic journey fraught with false starts, dead ends, redesigns, changes of heart, moments of elation punctuated by sloughs of despair.

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This journey has been fraught with similarly quixotic dead ends, fairy tales and blunders ignoring economic (and thermodynamic) realities.

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From here it is an 18km road journey to the tiny settlement of Batang Duri where the road ends, and then onto a traditional longboat for the final 30-minute ride along the fast-flowing Temburong River to the Ulu Ulu Temburong Resort, the closest hotel to the canopy trail.

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This project ends in November, but there's already talk of another similar journey in the West.

CNN: Trekking 5,000 miles to connect man and wildlife

Mr Fletcher made a remarkable journey in his battered Dodge after seven years as the Washington correspondent of the Times of Britain, and ends up with a triumph of a book.

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