Traveling across 5 continents, Lewis was robbed and beaten several times on his journey and had to dodge bandits, pirates and was once questioned as a spy in Egypt.

He said,

“Peddling across the Atlantic we encountered some pirates along the north coast of Cuba, by that point in the voyage we were both stark naked, because we had no need for clothes on the Atlantic, so when this boat came along up side and these guys with semi automatics were checking us out and seeing whether we had any nice gear on board, any electronics, they looked at us and we must have looked absolutely mad cause this was day 100 out of 111 voyage and they just like turned on their heels and went back to Cuba, because they probably thought they were going to catch some hideous disease from us or something if they came on board.”

Continuously lacked funding, Lewis had also worked as a cattle drover in the US and in a funeral parlor in Australia.

Jason originally expected his journey to take only 3 and a half years but was delayed by accident that left him with 2 broken legs in Colorado (he was knocked down by an elderly driver as he was rollerblading), a crocodile attack in Australia and a bout of depression.

He started the journey on 12 July 1994 when he was just 26.