The Lap: Days 61-66: This part of paradise
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...
The Lap: Days 59 & 60: Flying and hanging on
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 ...
The Lap: Days 55, 56, 57, 58: Cornering on straights
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 righ...
The Lap: Day 54: Welcome to WA!
"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 ...
The Lap: Day 53: Got a smoke?
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 ...
The Lap: Days 50, 51, 52: Old shoe, new friends, and a middle finger
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. Af...
The Lap: Days 46, 47, 48, 49: Topping up at the Top End
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 ...
The Lap: Days 44 and 45: Hey CU in the NT, here’s a roo and a thunderstorm!
"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...
The Lap: Days 22-42/43: The Blur/ Here I go again!
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...
The Lap: Days 17, 18, 19, 20: Stranded In Paradise
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 bac...
The Lap: Days 15 & 16: The Big Off
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 Y...
The Lap: Day 14: Momentum is your friend
"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 ste...
The Lap: Days 11, 12, 13: Well, you’re up!
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 ...
The Lap: Days 7, 8, 9, 10: We can’t stop here, this is croc country!
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 ...
The Lap: Days 3, 4, 5, 6: Airlie Beach
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 ...
The Lap: Day 2: Can’t believe I rode 850kms for this shit!
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 horr...
The Lap: Day 1: The Storm
If I rode under the arse of a thunderstorm yesterday, then today I crawled up the guts of another.
Weather forecast: scattered thunderstorms all d...
The Lap: Day -1 (Minus One): The Calm Before The Storm
"Everything so far has gone quite smoothly", I congratulated myself last night, shoving the last of my kit into the large drybag I was planning on us...
The Lap: Day -2 (minus two)
I decided today would be the day I sat down and wrote about my planned recklessness for the next coming while. I don't know how many people will read...
Cuba Is Actually A Terrible Place To Go – A Response
I am planning a trip to Cuba with some friends in 2018 and I stumbled across a post that’s been making the rounds on social media. It’s entitled "Cuba...
The Great Escape: Bangkok Pt. I
I'm writing a series of travel pieces, titled 'The Great Escape', on my recent holiday to South East Asia. The first stop was Bangkok. In this article...