Blog Index
Don’t sleep (Part 4)
I should have taken off my knee braces. I should have found a way to tie them to my back, but I wasn’t thinking very clearly. We walked...
Stranded in the Jungle (Part 3)
Day 3 dawned in rain that hissed on the coals of the fire as we allowed its heat to subside in preparation for leaving camp.
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The ground is for sleeping (Part 2)
The track had long ago turned into a hard enduro playground. Steep, slippery with scree, washed out by ruts that could swallow a w...
Yes, but did you die? (Part 1)
One, two, one, two… I count myself through each step. If you put enough of these tiny, zombie shuffles together, you’ll reach the top o...
Buy your own roses
Today is the exact anniversary of 5 years on the road – 15 February 2017 was the day I rode out of Sydney, never yet to return. I had i...
Modification & accustomisation
I've been busy manically removing parts from the new KLX230 to make it a lean little jungle machine.
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Sustainable Vagrancy
I sit in the HiVolt shop, surrounded by motorcycles and trials gear, and wait. Darkness falls and the high timbered ceilings glow with ...
A Time to Learn
It's six in the morning and the dawn light is bleeding into the valley, slowly, through a somnolent layer of mist. It's always peaceful...
Good Advice
Good morning my lovely people. It’s four a.m. which means it’s time to write, but you should have seen the struggle when it came to get...
Pleasure and Pain
It’s 4am and I’m disturbing the sleep of the hotel receptionists. I come downstairs, toting my laptop in the darkness with the objectiv...
Years of Life
I just came back from the Death Railway cemetery in Kanchanaburi. It is this beautiful, still place under a tropical sun, filled with y...
Risk Calculation
Today let’s talk about risk, and sweat, and tears. Now, it’s been a while since I was travelling fully loaded on the KTM: my whole life...
Ruins and Memories
Today’s blog post nearly didn’t happen, because I killed my computer. By dropping it down a gully? Drowning it in a rice paddy? Not eve...
I’m On A Boat
Putting your motorcycle on a boat is typically a terrifying experience. Sometimes that's because it's a massive boat and you're not all...
Before Times
Back before covid sank its teeth into the world, vagrants like me used to do border runs. You'd get your thirty day entry to Thailand o...