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The Lap: Day 85 and onwards: …and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Lincoln Vaz
January 10, 2019
Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Food, Lifestyle, Metal, Night Life, Travel
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Under an overcast afternoon sky, I crossed the Gateway Bridge, the city's logistical solution on the eastern portion of the Brisbane River. I was less than an hour away from home, and an influx of thoughts flo...

The Lap: Day 84: …but I have promises to keep…

Lincoln Vaz
December 23, 2018
Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Night Life, Travel
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"Going home soon mate? Bar's gotta be closed up in ten..." the security staff politely enquired, glancing at his watch as if to convince me he wasn't lying. I'd been sitting there writing this post for a coup...

The Lap: Days 76 – 83: Where the soul lives

Lincoln Vaz
December 22, 2018
Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Fashion, Food, Lifestyle, Travel
"I like this city man. Yeah, it's overcrowded, there are people everywhere, and some of them are shit… I get it. But… I like the energy. The trick is to tap into it. That's how you survive here. You gotta har...

The Lap: Days 73, 74, 75: Pick your poison

Lincoln Vaz
December 14, 2018
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1
“We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin’ rain … and big ol’ fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath.” – Forrest ...

The Lap: Days 70, 71, 72: Why motorcycling is meditation

Lincoln Vaz
December 11, 2018
Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Night Life, Travel
1
The past three days on the road have been uneventful: long rides, with only essential stops for fuel/ business/ rest. Departing from Albany marked a notable change in scenery: the lush forest replaced with ari...

The Lap: Days 61-66: This part of paradise

Lincoln Vaz
December 5, 2018
Comedy, Culture, Lifestyle, Travel, Uncategorized
I awoke to the sound of her playing Beethoven after her first piano student for the day left. I went next door and asked her to play me a Chopin piece. She gracefully obliged.  Her angelic figure rocked back an...

The Lap: Days 59 & 60: Flying and hanging on

Lincoln Vaz
December 1, 2018
Comedy, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel
On the second dive, we were instructed to perform a basic free descent upon entering the water, instead of following the mooring line down. The waves were too choppy due to the winds which I learned about yeste...

The Lap: Days 55, 56, 57, 58: Cornering on straights

Lincoln Vaz
November 29, 2018
Comedy, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel
1
Riding long distances on heavily cambered roads means one side of the tyre wears faster. In countries where you drive on the left, this means the right side of the tyre (facing direction of travel). One way ...

The Lap: Day 54: Welcome to WA!

Lincoln Vaz
November 24, 2018
Comedy, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel
"How's the road?", I asked the man outside the sign board at the turn off. "It's fucked", he spat, "where you going?" I woke up to some girls at the rest area singing their friend 'happy birthday' befo...

The Lap: Day 53: Got a smoke?

Lincoln Vaz
November 22, 2018
Comedy, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel
I left Darwin this morning, riding through Katherine and Timber Creek, towards the Western Australia border. I pulled over to call it a day some 750 km later, at Saddle Creek Rest Area, named after a beautiful...

The Lap: Days 50, 51, 52: Old shoe, new friends, and a middle finger

Lincoln Vaz
November 22, 2018
Comedy, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Night Life, Travel
I dropped in at the rangers' office at Mary River National Park, and told them I'd be heading over to a couple of spots on the road into the delta. After getting a run down of the area, area briefing, and a gli...

The Lap: Days 46, 47, 48, 49: Topping up at the Top End

Lincoln Vaz
November 18, 2018
Comedy, Culture, Lifestyle, Travel
I planned on walking the 4 km with my jerry can, but luckily, just as I put the bike on the stand, the first car I saw on the road in 2 hours offered me a lift to the nearest servo and back. I told the kind man...

The Lap: Days 44 and 45: Hey CU in the NT, here’s a roo and a thunderstorm!

Lincoln Vaz
November 14, 2018
Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Night Life, Travel
1
"If I'm gonna hit him, I'd rather hit him going fast than while slowing down and risk losing control", Ben had told me a week ago of his motorcycle vs kangaroo experience, while sinking a stein of beer with a m...

The Lap: Days 22-42/43: The Blur/ Here I go again!

Lincoln Vaz
November 12, 2018
Comedy, Culture, Food, Lifestyle, Travel
https://youtu.be/WyF8RHM1OCg Great song. I meant to write a post summing up my time in Cairns before I left, but I never got around to it. Now I'm writing from my tent in Croydon after a 540 km ride, as I...

The Lap: Days 17, 18, 19, 20: Stranded In Paradise

Lincoln Vaz
October 19, 2018
Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Food, Lifestyle, Travel
I woke up in the 20ft container I decided to sleep in on the road train. I maximised my time asleep by not going to the city to a backpackers, and back to the truck yard in the morning to sort the paperwork at ...

The Lap: Days 15 & 16: The Big Off

Lincoln Vaz
October 16, 2018
Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel
Day 15 I woke up to birdsong and the smell of wet earth from the rains overnight, feeling fantastic and ready for another day's riding towards Cape York. I absolutely did not anticipate my biggest crash to dat...

The Lap: Day 14: Momentum is your friend

Lincoln Vaz
October 14, 2018
Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel
"Momentum is your friend", I was told multiple times by multiple people over the past week. "Keep your weight on the pegs on the corrugations, and steer by distributing weight on them in dirt", Patrick the Cana...

The Lap: Days 11, 12, 13: Well, you’re up!

Lincoln Vaz
October 12, 2018
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel
Day 11: "Are you guys going across that on your bikes?", the lady standing next to me by her car said before Ben bolted. Apparently he'd asked me to stay on the southern bank while he went across the river, an...

The Lap: Days 7, 8, 9, 10: We can’t stop here, this is croc country!

Lincoln Vaz
October 9, 2018
Food, Lifestyle, Night Life, Travel
Day 7. I'm in my tent in Giru, where I've swapped the steady hum of my bike engine for the steady hum of a sugar cane mill 100m away. Woke up with a mouthful of Jagermeister after last night's antics with th...

The Lap: Days 3, 4, 5, 6: Airlie Beach

Lincoln Vaz
October 6, 2018
Lifestyle, Theatre, Travel
This entry has less to do with motorcycling, and more to do with me keeping myself occupied for the last 4 days. I think it's worth writing about, so I hope it's worth reading about. Tuesday (Day 3) morning...

The Lap: Day 2: Can’t believe I rode 850kms for this shit!

Lincoln Vaz
October 4, 2018
Lifestyle, Travel
I had an excellent sleep in my Black Wolf UL 1 tent beside the Booyal Roadhouse Fuel and Restaurant. I woke up warm and dry, to the sound of some horrendous sounding birds, at two in the fucking morning... "...
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