Blog
28
Dec
Traveling monks and breakfast beers: Thailand
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BIKE-HEDONIA
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...
23
Dec
Debrief
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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 ...
17
Dec
Compound Fractures
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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 ...
16
Dec
‘But she’s alone and has no friends’
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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...
10
Dec
Slaying the Demon
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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...
08
Dec
Latex Everywhere
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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...
06
Dec
Don’t be Alice
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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...
05
Dec
Road Tripping – In Real Time
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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 ...
01
Dec
Motorcycling is Glamorous
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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,...
29
Nov
Tigers in the Night
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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 ...
25
Nov
Square One
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The last couple of posts have been about me finding things very very difficult: enduro is hard, trials is hard. Put bluntly like that, ...
21
Nov
Be Like Buddha
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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...
20
Nov
Peachie
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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...
17
Nov
Valentine’s Day Massacre
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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...
04
Nov
Face the Abyss
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Nan province has these amazing swooping hills, and amazing washed out single track which threatens to yeet you over the side. Don't get...