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 [...]

  Everything happens for a reason.  At least, that’s what I’ve come to believe.  Actually, without trying to sound arrogant, I don’t actually believe I [...]

India was a dead end.  I had the world to cycle and nowhere to go.  Sure I could have flown directly to Iran but, apart from contravening the low emissions lifestyle that I&# [...]

I had exhausted just about every option.  A bureaucratic roadblock stretched from the Indian Ocean, 3500 kilometres northward, all the way along the mighty Indus River to the [...]

Perhaps one of the prerequisites for visiting India should be a question such as, “Are you prepared?”  It would be a good question.  “For what?” they would naturally reply, t [...]

  When the guy pulled a gun and placed it on the table, I snapped!  “Is that a gun?”, I demanded, looking him in the eye.  “Did you just pull a gun on [...]