Marvel at Melaka, Malaysia Oct., 24th, 2010
As I pedal into the world heritage city of Melaka, Malaysia my eyes burn not with beauty or ocean salt but with thick smoke particles. Particles that have wafted north through the ocean breeze from Indonesia. The northern blowing tropical wind rustles my thin cotton [...]
Tenting It To Tinbucktoo..Top 7 Tent Friendly Places in the World
As I lay solemnly still amongst sandalwood and camphor trees bugs hiccup in the softness of dusk. Branches bend as monkeys jockey for a position to view the new edition to the forest. Fist size, brown moth tropical butterflies flap their wings as my tent [...]
On My Way By Bicycle Ambulance To A Dream
Over the next 6 months, as I continue to round the world by bicycle, I am presently pedaling from Cambodia, Asia to Africa via Laos, China, Kazakhstan, and Russia crossing the Black Sea and pedaling through Turkey and then catching a boat into Africa. The [...]
Porn Star
The majestic jungles of Borneo, a lush tropical paradise freckled with banana plants, the sounds of tropical birds enlighten my ear drums with each push of the pedal. Dancing monkeys dart from tree to tree through the surrounding rain forest as I coast through paradise. [...]
Hasta La VISA Baby…How to get a Travel Visa
Bureaucracy moves at a glacial pace, the tourist visa stamp floats like a retreating ice berg in the luke warm administrative waters. The long desired tourist visa , the monopoly card, the terminator or determinator of forward travel. A little stamp or sticker, a you [...]
Where The Big Girls Go, Tips For A Nutritious Holiday (with/without your bicycle)
We all have heard of all the great counties in which to eat, Italy, Spain and France quickly come to mind but what happens when you are on the road and the menu consists of really bizarre palette baffling options? I have eaten soup [...]
Hungry Hungry Hippo…Let The Eating Begin
As Pandemic The Magic Bicycle pedals out of the mountainous indigenous region of Tana Toronja I am reminded of the elevation and begin to descend 200km back into the Muslim villages of Sulawesi, Indonesia. A remarkably curvey 2 day downhill will certainly keep a woman [...]
Life Is a Parade
The beautiful red arch way is a burial site Pandemic The Magic Bicycle, like an old Volkswagen beetle chugging away on fumes on a warm humid day, cycles up a 40 kilometer hill in the central mountain range. At a steady 10km an hour, for [...]
Pussy Cat Paranoia
As the sun sets over Lake Poso in central Selawesi, Indonesia I begin to wonder how on earth I got here. The cracked road has slowed my pace to a crawl for most of the day. The zagged edges of the road surface cascades Pandemic [...]
The Thieving Lunatic and the LED Lights
This photo is not of my dell notebook laptop because my computer was too embarassed by it's conditon to show up for the photo! THE LUNATIC AND THE LED LIGHTS As I glare through a spiders maze of flashing LED computer screen shrapnel I wonder [...]