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Motivation and preparation
Pratt stated:
 * "The reason I've decided to undertake this ride: it's mainly just because I want to travel. I finished my a-levels last year and decided that now is probably the best time to attempt something like this. I want to see the world, and in my mind the best way to do it under my own power, from the saddle of a unicycle. My world unicycle tour will be raising money and awareness for School in a Bag [which] provides aid in the form of school bags (small rucksacks), to disadvantaged children throughout the world. Each school bag is filled with stationary, equipment and resources that will enable the child to write, draw, color, calculate, express themselves, and above all, learn. I'm aiming to raise £7,500 which is equivalent to 500 school bags. I'm a little scared about the ride but very excited. I've got no idea what'll happen, or if I can even make it, but that's kind of the point isn't: it it's an adventure. I just can't wait to get on the road and start pedaling."

Luke Simon, of School in a Bag said:
 * "What we'd love to try and achieve is for Ed to actually cycle through a community or a town where we've actually distributed school bags. That would be the icing on the cake I think for us and maybe for his trip too".

As part of his preparation, Pratt did a 350 mile, 10 day "really tough, but fantastic fun" practice unicycle ride, with luggage, including camping gear, from his home in Somerset to Lancaster University.

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=Finances=

Pratt estimated his total spend for the tour as £22,982. The initial kit came to £1,674. The rest was spent on visas, paid transport, food and accommodation, replacement kit, and his tracker subscription. (The tracker was a device he carried which sent data that allowed the general public could find his location by visiting a website. The data was updated roughly every half an hour. It also had an SOS button.)

He estimated his income during the tour as £14,800. This came from advertising related to videos he had uploaded, teaching and donations (these donations were money donated specifically to him and was kept separate from donations to charity). He also got income in-kind as during the trip people also sometimes gave him food, accomodation or equipment, or they paid for these types of thing for him. He often wild-camped (for free) so no money was involved there. Income is continuing after the tour from giving talks, and from videos. As of video published on 8 May 2020, the whole cost of the tour had been recouped.

Regarding the future, Pratt said "I'm now going on to work out to kind of turn this kind of adventuring into a business".

Costs/income: amounts quoted by Pratt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw51zoXtk6E (this video gives other information about the tour apart form costs, such as some other info the things money was spent on): total cost, initially coming from savings;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD6JRZzt-vk&list=PLocRYksAqGOJnr-Y0eyP87P5banlFicp4&index=96&t=640s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD6JRZzt-vk gear list 10:33 spot tracker watch