I waited for 2 weeks in Dushanbe for the remaining visa’s that I needed to get to Europe. In this part of the world all it takes is money and patience. Surprisingly the [...]

There are a few special places in this world that really excite my imagination, places that are so far off the geo-politcal world radar that they seem to resonate with advent [...]

“Every joke,” according to my wife, “has an element of joke in it.” The first time I heard it, I figured she’d confused the idea. Her take on English can be quite original so [...]

It is hard to distinguish where the influences of culture, terrain and history come together to demarcate such a distinction between east and west. But where the harsh wind, [...]

Happy 2012 to all those following the blog. I hope that you’ve been enjoying the adventure thus far. Currently I find myself in Bucharest, Romania after taking some tim [...]

  They came during the night.  We were two, but they were many – possibly eight or nine.  They couldn’t have been older than eighteen or younger than fourtee [...]

I was loving the sounds of flowing water, the smell of vegetation and the shade of trees.  Two weeks battling the desert is enough for anyone to see things in a new light.  I [...]

It started waking up under the road and ended camping in a far flung desert in a remote part of far Western China.  As with the journey, it was what happened in between that [...]

My return to China was flooded with a kind of reverse culture shock.  The dirty, run down city of Kathmandu had cows shitting in the street; the rivers ran full of rubbish; c [...]

Friends of the Cycle Strongman: Remember this date. A few days from now people all over the world will come together to say enough is enough. We want action on Climate Change [...]