Tag Archives: travel

09 Apr

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 ...

11 Feb

I sit in the HiVolt shop, surrounded by motorcycles and trials gear, and wait. Darkness falls and the high timbered ceilings glow with ...

04 Feb

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...

10 Dec

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...

05 Dec

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 ...

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 ...

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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