Tag Archives: thailand
Not My Usual Haunts
Long time no see.
After months of chilly silence, I’m back, and I’m not in a place where I’d expect to find myself.
A...
The Accident
There’s a feeling of cold horror when the traffic parts in front of you, and all you see are skid plates.
Don’t get me wrong, ...
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...
Change your knobbies
The air is filled with flying termites. Last night, the rain fell softly for hours, waking up the baked earth and ushering the jungle b...
Water Wars & New Beginnings
It’s dark and the sound of frogs on the fish pond is deafening. All around me, cool dew is settling on the wild banana trees, the coffe...
End of a Season
The sun has been red for two weeks: the burning season is here.
Every year, from the beginning of March, the mountains of north...
Trail of Bruises
I’m feeling a little beaten up today. I love dirt biking but some days you bite the dust harder than others, and yesterday was one of t...
Extraction (Part 5)
The next day we walked back into the jungle with a tow rope and a couple of strong young men. The sun was shining gaily and the sheetin...
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...
Pleasure and Pain
It’s 4am and I’m disturbing the sleep of the hotel receptionists. I come downstairs, toting my laptop in the darkness with the objectiv...
Years of Life
I just came back from the Death Railway cemetery in Kanchanaburi. It is this beautiful, still place under a tropical sun, filled with y...
Ruins and Memories
Today’s blog post nearly didn’t happen, because I killed my computer. By dropping it down a gully? Drowning it in a rice paddy? Not eve...
I’m On A Boat
Putting your motorcycle on a boat is typically a terrifying experience. Sometimes that's because it's a massive boat and you're not all...