Tag Archives: adventure travel

24 Apr

Articles, Thailand

Water Wars & New Beginnings

• April 26, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 4 comments

It’s dark and the sound of frogs on the fish pond is deafening. All around me, cool dew is settling on the wild b...

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11 Apr

Enduro, Health

The Soviet Hospital

• April 11, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 4 comments

It’s time to take my stitches out, so join me for a stroll back in time to the Cold War. The cheapest hospital in...

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02 Aug

Articles

Injury

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

It’s been a while. I told you all about the hill climb, and nothing of the race.

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14 Apr

Articles

Days of Kampot

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

I’m walking down the street in Kampot when I see my friend sitting out the front of Milano Pizza. I cross over an...

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09 Apr

Articles

Life’s a beach… by a river in Cambodia

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

I am lying on a swinging daybed beside a river, gently sautéing in my own sweat. The hot wind has pushed clouds o...

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24 Feb

Articles

Yes, but did you die? (Part 1)

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

One, two, one, two… I count myself through each step. If you put enough of these tiny, zombie shuffles together, ...

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15 Feb

Articles

Buy your own roses

• February 15, 2022
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 2 comments

Today is the exact anniversary of 5 years on the road – 15 February 2017 was the day I rode out of Sydney, never ...

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11 Feb

Articles

Sustainable Vagrancy

• March 25, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 1 comment

I sit in the HiVolt shop, surrounded by motorcycles and trials gear, and wait. Darkness falls and the high timber...

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04 Feb

Articles

A Time to Learn

• March 25, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 5 comments

It's six in the morning and the dawn light is bleeding into the valley, slowly, through a somnol...

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24 Jan

Articles

Pleasure and Pain

• January 24, 2022
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 1 comment

It’s 4am and I’m disturbing the sleep of the hotel receptionists. I come downstairs, toting my laptop in the dark...

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11 Jan

Articles

Ruins and Memories

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

Today’s blog post nearly didn’t happen, because I killed my computer. By dropping it down a gully? Drowning it in...

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06 Jan

Articles

I’m On A Boat

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

Putting your motorcycle on a boat is typically a terrifying experience. Sometimes that's because it's a massive b...

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23 Dec

Articles

Debrief

• March 25, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 0 comments

After the shock of the accident, I ride sedately into Loei and pulled into my usual parking spot behind my usual ...

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17 Nov

Articles

Valentine’s Day Massacre

• November 17, 2021
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 4 comments

On Valentine's Day I brought a knife to a gunfight. In the cool mountain morning, the hard enduro group were gath...

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