Tag Archives: thailand
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...
Complimentary House Dragon
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...
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 ...
Compound Fractures
Day nine of my little tour was a sobering one.
The day started and finished in brilliant sunshine under blue skies, but with a much ...
‘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...
Slaying the Demon
Road tripping… day four? Five? Oh well, irrelevant. I am back to my peripatetic exiseance, in which I don't know where I'm going or why...
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 ...
Tigers in the Night
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 ...
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, ...
Be Like Buddha
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...
Valentine’s Day Massacre
On Valentine's Day I brought a knife to a gunfight. In the cool mountain morning, the hard enduro group were gathering with their two s...
Face the Abyss
Nan province has these amazing swooping hills, and amazing washed out single track which threatens to yeet you over the side. Don't get...
CBR Enduro
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...