Tag Archives: adventure

03 Jan

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...

29 Dec

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...

28 Dec

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

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 ...

16 Dec

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...

29 Nov

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 ...

21 Nov

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...

31 Oct

You can take the girl from the adventure bike but you can't take the adventure out of the girl. You may recall that my KTM 690 Endur...

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