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 [...]
A Lunatic On A Bicycle Meets A Laotian With A Fire Extinguisher
As I approach the Cambodia/ Laos’s border crossing, I emerge triumphantly though a blazing forest, my wheels spitting out fire bolts, Pandemic The Magic Bicycle’s rubber tread left behind for anyone brave enough to follow. The road ahead, behind and all around appears to be [...]
Birthing A Bicycle Tour
Some women birth babies others women birth bicycle tours, utilizing their thighs towards creating a slightly different endeavor, an equally challenging affair but a tad less gooey. I dare venture a guess that any woman who has pedaled in the remote central Mekong region would [...]
God Bless The Sinners
Oh, Father Pedal, please forgive me for I have sinned, I am not worthy of the pulpit or spandex for that matter. It has been 7 days since my last ride in the brooks saddle on this bicycle tour. I am here today to confess [...]