Bike For Dad
The bike rolled along quickly on the glass like surface. For the first time in months there was not a blemish to be seen on the road. I was relieved, the past 98 days had been hard on the old steel...
View ArticleBrimming With Optimism; The Land Of Look Behind
‘I have the necessary papers right here’ drawled the cowboy in a thick Texan accent, his strange voice filling the tiny portacabin office of the border checkpoint. It was early in the morning,...
View ArticleNorth East India & Company
High up above the town of Kiphire we were given an ominous warning; ‘you can’t go that way’ said the hulking mass of man in charge of the guest house, ‘it’s too dangerous, many rebels, insurgents, the...
View ArticleThe Darjeeling Unlimited
‘Hey! I didn’t expect to see another traveler for weeks. Especially not crazy bike guys’. Jiles blurted out as John and I sat drinking tea and feasting on puri at the tiny chai stand on the fringe of...
View ArticleThe Great Indian Railway Bazaar
India is a very big country. And I wanted to see a lot of it. For that reason I took a series of trains making a horseshoe shape around the country. Down the east coast alongside the Bay of Bengal,...
View ArticleOm Rishikesh; Yoga Capital Of The World
The cycle from Kalka to Rishikesh was hot, dusty and very hilly. My welcome back to the bike after six weeks of train hopping around India (Kolkota to Goa to Kalka) was exactly as anticipated; really...
View ArticleWalking The Himalayas
Before I crossed the bustling, semi forested no mans land from Banbasa to the Nepalese border patrol office in Bhimdatta, I joined the masses of locals taking a dip in the Sharda Mahakali river. It was...
View ArticlePamir Highway Social Club
”Well this is all about my problems to get out of drugs, cause I had enough of that, I’ve had the college, I’ve had the earning the money, and the material trip, I just decided I was going to find a...
View ArticleUzbekistan and the Silk Road Cities
A story about the kindness of strangers in foreign lands. *CONTENT WARNING* Features gratuitous hospitality and repeated feasting. Welcome to Uzbekistan and the Silk Road cities.
View ArticleDon’t Forget To Look Up!
‘Don’t forget to look up!’ cheered Marina as I cycled away from her ancient tumbledown family home nestled among majestic maple trees on a hill above the medieval city of Telavi. I’d arrived in the...
View Article
