The following is a story about Josie Dew.
When Josie Dew was 16 , she fell out of a car, so she has never learned to 17 .
She was still at primary school when she decided she wanted to 18 . So when she was eleven, she decided to go for long bike rides, and cycled 40 or 50 19 every day.
Josie says, “The only 20 thing about the middle school was cycling there and back. I left school when I was 16. I 21 cooking so at that time I started a business. I cooked three-course meals, and delivered（递送） them 22 ! In 1985, as soon as I had some 23 , I cycled to Africa and back.”
Josie has 24 to 40 countries and has had all kinds of interesting 25 . She has cycled through the Himalayan Mountains in Nepal, then down into India. She has cycled through millions of locusts（蝗虫）in the Moroccan desert and through tornados（龙卷风）in the USA. She was in Romania on Christmas Day in 1989. And she hasn’t been to Egypt yet, because when she was in Turkey, a war 26 nearby. So she went to Greece instead.
She has sometimes traveled with friends, boyfriends and even her mother, but she has often cycled 27 . She had only one really frightening experience — a man 28 her in Bulgaria.
In 1997 she hurt her leg very badly, 29 she started writing books about her 30 . She’s written five books, and now she is on her bike again! At the moment she is planning to cycle around New Zealand.