You have rather transparently only promoted his efforts (admirable as they are) as part of your campaign against TCT (reprehensible although she is).
Best of luck to him, but there are numerous other people out there, all the time, doing long trips. He's obviously talented, but also very well resourced from other people's efforts than his own.
I hope that he has a fantastic trip, and goes onto bigger and better things. I can't however get all that excited about it.
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