Black Dog Bicycling

In retrospect, threads were becoming unwound. A pain had developed in my right knee. The beauty of the surroundings muted by thoughts of a r...

Ko Lanta faded beyond the horizon as the last boat trip of this coastal diversion led me towards Trang. Islands and time floated by 

Perlis passed in a procession of sun browned paddy fields. Irrigation channels became quiet tracks to traverse Malaysia's smallest and m...

Thai visa in hand I fled Pennang before dawn on the first free ferry to Butterworth. A quick roti chennai later, I gave the bike it's he...

One thing has remained constant during my travels.  And that most faithful friend is well deserving of an ode A bicycle born ne...

Cocooned in my forest lair by day, by night holed up in the sequestered serenity of the campsite's riverside glade. I passed my time ben...

Leaving behind Tamra Negara before dawn I ignored the temptation of a return boat ride. Instead I took the quiet roads south along the bank...

I left Fraiser's Hill wreathed in a thick layer of wet mist. Ignore the spinal tap impersonator blocking the mist-obscur...

Suffice to say I didn't die. I accelerated downwards for perhaps five feet before my heels hit ledge. Jarred forward by the impact my ...

Departure #2 was from a lovely spot called Hutan Lipur Sungai Sendat, a waterfall, just north of KL. Peter, keen to test out his new hammo...

I was recently contacted by Fil Corbitt. A talented podcaster from Reno. Showing uncharacteristic poor judgment he wanted to do an intervi...

I was pleased to be waved through the border crossing at Dibba. I was pleased not to have to pay for a new Omani visa. I was less pleas...

Where the north-eastern extremity of the Arabian Peninsula tapers into the mouth of the Persian Gulf geography gets exciting and political b...

I left the mountains that had beguiled me so and moved from Oman's desert interior to her salty coastal plain. A different Oman...

A collection of the various nooks and crannies that have sheltered and provided me a more-or-less restful nights sleep during my first 24 mo...