Agent and Hedgehog I never get used to knocking on strangers’ doors. It’s easier to do it during daylight hours. Once darkness falls people are naturally more guarded and suspicious of an uninvited caller. It was dark now. Midwinter dark in the middle of nowhere. I needed water and a place to camp. I’d pinned […]
Free to those who can afford it “This door stays locked whether you’re in or out”, said Katie, my Warmshowers host and administrator for the church community centre we were standing in, in Crescent City, California. “Don’t worry if you forget any of the other things, but remember that!”. If it needed to be explained […]
I raced the sunset into enormous dunes south of Florence. The last time I’d seen the Pacific up close, I was swimming in it in Hawaii. Here in Oregon there was no question of getting in the water. Enormous breakers, having rolled uninterrupted for tens of thousands of kilometres, crashed with thunderous force into the […]
The Ambassadors of Missoula I awoke to a world transformed. My tent sagged ominously, its roof and sides weighted by some unseen external force. I lined my shoes with plastic bags, pulled on winter mitts and went out to clear off three inches of heavy snow. All about, the ponderosa pines sloughed off their […]
In a way my whole trip is Steve Coackley’s fault. Or at any rate, his 2003 world bike tour has a lot to answer for. I was working long hours as a recruiter in the IT industry back then, paying off my student loans and buying a house. Steve was a friend of a friend; […]
“Travelling by bicycle is a life of simple things taken seriously: hunger, thirst, friendship, the weather, the stutter of the world beneath you.” — Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders Alaska! The very name sets one’s adventure glands tingling. Of all the wild places in the world, this one had the strongest hold on my […]
Check out my new video of the latest part of my journey through the Americas! In September I was joined by my old pal from home, Steve Coackley, and together we rode the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route from Banff, Alberta, into Montana, USA. It was a blast! Feel free to subscribe to the YouTube […]
