Blog Index
Complimentary House Dragon
Here in south-east Asia we have these magnificent tokay geckos. They like to live in your house and eat all the insects, and I think th...
Traveling monks and breakfast beers: Thailand
When I first checked into the roadside guesthouse, there was an old lady running the show and she seemed positively surly. Why didn't s...
Debrief
After the shock of the accident, I ride sedately into Loei and pulled into my usual parking spot behind my usual ultra-cheap hotel. As ...
Compound Fractures
Day nine of my little tour was a sobering one.
The day started and finished in brilliant sunshine under blue skies, but with a much ...
‘But she’s alone and has no friends’
The gods were smiling on me as I waved goodbye to my friends in Nong Kai, a foil wrapped serving of barbecue ribs in my backpack for la...
Slaying the Demon
Road tripping… day four? Five? Oh well, irrelevant. I am back to my peripatetic exiseance, in which I don't know where I'm going or why...
Latex Everywhere
My second day back on the road - solo and in my natural habitat - plunging into the twisties. I left the main roads after Uttaradit and...
Don’t be Alice
Good morning my lovely people, this is an update from the road.
Yes, I'm road trippin' in real time for once - a sort of experimen...
Road Tripping – In Real Time
It's 4.40am and the sun won't be up for another hour or so. Although warm beds beckon, this is my writing time. It's in these pre-dawn ...
Motorcycling is Glamorous
In this valley, you can hear the rain approaching from the far ridge. It comes as a rush of static, thrumming on broad tropical leaves,...
Tigers in the Night
I found out that we were going enduro camping about 500km after we set out.
The beginning of the trip had been the last word in ...
Square One
The last couple of posts have been about me finding things very very difficult: enduro is hard, trials is hard. Put bluntly like that, ...
Be Like Buddha
The first time I rode trials, I was completely disconcerted. You would think it would be basically the same as riding an enduro bike up...
Peachie
A week ago today, the world lost a little bit of its light. My friend Peachie passed away; much too early.
David Peach came into...
Valentine’s Day Massacre
On Valentine's Day I brought a knife to a gunfight. In the cool mountain morning, the hard enduro group were gathering with their two s...