Tag Archives: solo travel
From Singapore to Chiang Mai
It’s Sunday and everyone’s out riding enduro except me. I sit in the shadowy office, trying to ignore the abandoned gecko tail on my de...
Life’s a beach… by a river in Cambodia
I am lying on a swinging daybed beside a river, gently sautéing in my own sweat. The hot wind has pushed clouds over the mountains and ...
Buy your own roses
Today is the exact anniversary of 5 years on the road – 15 February 2017 was the day I rode out of Sydney, never yet to return. I had i...
A Time to Learn
It's six in the morning and the dawn light is bleeding into the valley, slowly, through a somnolent layer of mist. It's always peaceful...
Good Advice
Good morning my lovely people. It’s four a.m. which means it’s time to write, but you should have seen the struggle when it came to get...
Before Times
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...
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 ...
‘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...
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 ...
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, ...