Miles Hewitt
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Miles Hewitt

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Miles Hewitt was born in Northumberland, England during the 1950s and left home at midnight on his fifteenth birthday driven by a desire to travel. This fascination with travel began in the summer of his childhood. Their family of three motored in a Morris Minor from Morpeth in the North East of England to Saltdean on the South Coast to visit grandparents. It was a drive time of twelve hours down the A1 and in those days routed by way of every village and town. For the duration Miles slid around on the smooth bench seat in silence, enthralled by the everchanging scenery. When they eventually clambered out of the car, a disparity in ambience was distinctly evident. What stuck in his mind was the polarity of sound between the two locations. At the seaside on the English Channel, the rippling waves rolled ashore over the smooth round pebbles, poppling, purling and babbling. In contrast to the Northumberland coastline, where rolling breakers trimmed by frothy foam flopped onto the sandy shoreline with a ruffle, a splosh and a splash. In fact everyday acoustics played a major part in his craving to uncover more from this exciting world. In class at school, Miles could hear the captivating boom of foghorns shrouded in mist on the River Tyne, evoking a desire to become a stowaway aboard a cargo ship and sail to exotic lands. At night in bed he would listen to the metallic pounding of locomotives on the East Coast Railway – spellbound by their lonesome whistle – as they thundered through the station en route to London or Edinburgh. Miles dreamt of being a hobo while scaling these monstrous metal structures and freighthopping to faraway cities. In 1973 as wide-eyed curious young man with an open mind, hungry for new experiences, he made an overland journey from England to Australia. After the return trip from Perth to London, Miles became an expedition driver in the Near East; thereafter his roaming moved on through the Soviet Union to the Far East. He pursued a career in commerce which evolved into running his own company. Once this activity took him overseas, Miles reconnected with the world at large. Although cushioned by an executive lifestyle, the real soul and spirit of a now seasoned traveller remained as he journeyed into Latin America, China and Asia, the events of which shaped the remainder of his life. Miles returned to his native Northumberland together with his Mexican wife, Irma, to write his first travel novel, Miles & Miles, published in 2018.
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