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28 Sep

Articles

You get up, and you get knocked down.

• September 28, 2021
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 4 comments

Winter is coming. Honestly it is. I had goosebumps as I rode up the mountain today, it must have been about 23 C....

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30 Aug

Articles

Never Pity A Dying Man

• August 30, 2021
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 5 comments

It's New Year's Eve 2020, and I am alone. Completely alone, in a darkened in a valley in northern Thailand. Cool ...

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13 Aug

Articles

This is the new adventure.

• August 13, 2021
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 5 comments

It is 1am in northern Thailand and I have achieved the impossible: I have outlived a Bic ballpoint pen. Not by th...

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29 Apr

Articles

Riding the Volcano

• April 29, 2020
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 4 comments

I get up to Manado and meet up with the most wonderful people - friends of my friends in Makassar. Gland has a motorbike workshop and W...

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26 Apr

Articles

Let them eat cake

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 5 comments

Ramadan. Every morning I'd be woken by the scrape of utensils on aluminium pans in the pitch dark, 3am, as the women cooked. Sahur, the...

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15 Apr

Articles

Not lost, but still found

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 5 comments

It's nighttime when I ride into a small town on the coast, spotlights blazing. I don't like riding at night because I can't see to save...

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14 Apr

Articles

Stubborn

• April 14, 2020
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 6 comments

As a child, I never went to school. I grew up in the midst of a small mountain range where the winter frost used to paint the landscape...

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06 Apr

Articles

The Pressure Mounts

• April 6, 2020
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 7 comments

When I wake the next morning, my ears and sinuses are a hot zone of infection and - you guessed it - they hurt. I'd been hot and cold a...

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04 Apr

Articles

Tell me what you need

• April 4, 2020
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 4 comments

I'm having my morning coffee when I notice the landlady trying to surreptitiously photograph me from the shadows. Sprung! I laugh and t...

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01 Apr

Articles

Killing Me With Kindness

• April 1, 2020
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 6 comments

Come back to the west coast of Sulawesi with me. I want to tell you about the gravest danger you will face as a traveler on this island...

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26 Mar

Articles

Solo Female, Muslim Nation

• March 26, 2020
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 2 comments

Indonesia is home to the largest population of Muslims of anywhere in the world. I'm a lone, single female atheist on a motorbike. So h...

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23 Mar

Articles

Paradise Lost

• March 23, 2020
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 10 comments

Even in paradise, the world eventually reaches you. I knew that the coronavirus would be in Indonesia long before its presence was reco...

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16 Mar

Articles

Days of Summer

• March 16, 2020
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 8 comments

In Palu, I am spoiled rotten. My local biker friends install me in their clubhouse - there's a little room with an old mattress on the ...

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08 Mar

Articles

Deranging the Cows of Poso

• March 8, 2020
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 2 comments

The last stretch up the coast is beautiful sunshine, blue skies. I stop for lunch at a roadside warung with a line of trucks pulled up ...

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06 Mar

Articles

No Rest for the Wicked

• March 6, 2020
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 5 comments

After the great mud bog I hit the coast again, some small towns, and for a moment I thought that things would get a little more pedestr...

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