Who’s On First, What’s On Second, I Don’t Know’s On Third
Wide eyed, full of excitement, like a kid in the candy store, I admire my new passport. 48 fresh pages to fill, a candy crazed child’s delight, my sweet tooth for travel only satiated by future travel plans. If only the logistics of acquiring visas [...]
Trying Out For The Red Carpet, What To Wear On Your Next Adventure?
I would like to say as I round the world by bicycle that I am cloaked in a wonder women cape full of magic capabilities. Attire, that is suitable for the red carpet and engineered by fashion experts. However, light weight astronaut specialists, or red [...]
The Bicycle Clown Spreads Much Needed Smiles Across Japan
As the earth in Japan continues to shake, power plant on fire, tsunami destruction flourishes and the death and injury toll continue to rise, I get a message from my internet boyfriend. Not someone I have been lucky enough to meet (yet), rather an internet friend and [...]
Bicycle Touring Solo? Boo Hoo Hoo, How To Tackle The Lonesome Blues
Lonesome is described by the Webster’s dictionary as forlorn, lost, alone, deserted, solitary, isolated, secluded, remote, out of the way, without a friend in the world. Lonesome is described by the solution oriented solo bicycle tourists glossary of terms as….if at times after weeks or [...]
Party Like A Rock Star
“That is the worst idea I have ever heard”. The words escape from my laughter as I accept the invitation and follow new friends to the top rated tourist attraction in Northern, Laos. River Tubing is a Laos specialty, no shoes or sanity required for [...]
Make Spoons Not War
The beauty of NE Laos lays in the Laotian people’s remarkable spirit, ingenuity, laughter and smiles for all that pass by their villages. Late in the afternoon, after pedaling up and down the mountains for about 90 kilometers, I stop, hungry again for some noodle [...]
Super Size Me…Getting A New Passport While Traveling
My passport is full, obese with stamps; it has eaten well over the last 20 months of travel. And like a chubby person in an airplane seat, there are so many stamps that there are stamps spreading out on top of stamps without an empty [...]
Solo Female Adventure Travel, Are Your Ovaries Holding You Back?
Are you alone….you are a girl, are you crazy? Why yes, last I checked down there, yes I am a girl, and crazy? Well only on a good day. I have been asked this many times in many countries by many people from many countries. [...]
Bite Me…Essental Foods For A Bicycle Tour Of South East Asia
Here in Central Laos, after a daily consumption of pedaling and eating rice and lacking the endurance to continue the latter, I begin to pedal along and eye the street food vendors with a hungry curiosity. Noodle soup is the daily breakfast staple; it is [...]
Super Seniors, Taking Adventure Travel To A Whole New Level
With Pandemic The Magic Bicycle securely loaded onto a wooden boat to cross the Mekong river to the western banks, I follow in the steps of the thousands of monks who have ventured here on pilgrimage to the sacred historic site of Wat Phu. A [...]