I began sleeping with a knife under my pillow when the skipper said, “I could cut you up into little pieces and throw you into the sea. I’d say you fell overboard on your night watch.”
Feature Extract: Sjaak Lucassen – Chile
From Tierra del Fuego I ride, cold and with wet feet, wrestling with the strong wind, towards Punta Arenas in Chile, which is a little further away from the South Pole.
Feature Extract: Norman Magowan – Ecuador
On every journey you’ll come, now and again, to a special place, a nodal point where a crop of fresh encounters will cause your trip to ricochet off in some wonderful, new and completely unanticipated direction.
Feature Extract: Neil Pidduck – Morocco
The view out of the window is a belter. I’m sat looking over the lush green palmerie, at the shifting colours, with shadows dancing across the folded ridges on the Djebel Sarhro Mountains filling the horizon.
Book Review: “India The Shimmering Dream” by Max Reisch
This is the story of Max Reisch and his passenger, fellow student-adventurer Herbert Tichy and the first motorised journey overland from Europe (Austria) to India in 1933/34.
Book Review: “The Incredible Ride” by Nick Sanders
It’s all-exciting for the reader, no matter the country he’s crossing. Nick has never struck me as someone prepared to goad US rednecks in a bar, but perhaps he is human after all and exhaustion can lower even his tolerance of stupidity.
Book Review: “These Are The Days That Must Happen To You” by Dan Walsh
The social and political observation, wit, wisdom and jaundiced bitterness, delivered through an alcoholic haze, is bizarrely informative and refreshing.
Feature Extract: Simon Gandolfi – Crossing Mexico
I am seventy-five years old and have ridden my Honda 125 from Mexico to Mexico via Tierra del Fuego, 46,000 kilometres. I cross the border, dismount and kiss the road. Kindly Mexican Customs officers send out for a celebratory case of Corona beer.
Book Review: “The University of Gravel Roads” by Rene Cormier
Rene’s story of redundancy leading to a four-year trip around the world may not sound like it’s anything out of the ordinary, but that’s the thing about independent travel – no matter what the circumstances that lead to you starting a big trip, that trip is bound to be unique.
Feature Extract: Frédéric Jeorge – Mum, Morocco and Me
It’s already a whole new world, of white houses, maze-like markets, beautiful mosques, traditionally-clothed men and women, heavily-loaded donkeys.
Feature Extract: Paddy Tyson – Mission Impassable
The temperature and the fog may have been particularly low, but the expectation was high as Peggy my ever-faithful Aprilia and I, rolled down the gangway to start exploring the most volcanically active country on the planet.
Book Review: “Running With The Moon” by Jonny Bealby
Jonny never takes the easy option. If he can take a route that will provide him with new adventure and experiences, and travel without other overlanders, then he will. This results in exciting illegal border crossings and heart stopping moments where his discovery by man or beast is only a breath away.
Feature Extract: Lois Pryce – 120 Hours and Counting
I was eventually granted a transit visa, which gave me just five-days to ride the length of Angola. It was a 1200 mile journey through a country littered with landmines and with no ‘proper’ roads…
Feature Extract: Sam Manicom – Expect the Unexpected
The days on the road in Vietnam were full of fun, and they challenged us wonderfully. It’s a land where just about every corner holds a new surprise….
Book Review: “Old Man On A Bike” by Simon Gandolfi
The story of Simon Gandolfi’s solo journey, at the age of 73, from Mexico to Ushuaia on a 125cc Honda pizza bike, and the history and culture of the people he encountered along the way.
Feature Extract: Ian Mutch – The Road to Middle Earth
A winding road speckled with gravel washed from the roadside, led through more damp forest to the wonderfully named Puké Inn, which was shut, but across the road was a general store selling Possum pies….
Feature Extract: Paddy Tyson – Beauty Beyond Conflict
If I’d stuck to the early plan I should have been somewhere in Peru by now, but such is the beguiling nature of serendipity, and now I was on my way across the country to return a set of hotel door keys….
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