Cycling Across Australia 8 – The Oodnadatta Track

The sandy unsealed desert road of Oodnadatta Track in Outback Australia

Jaimi and I arrived in William Creek, a ‘town’ with more planes than local residents (9 planes vs. 6 locals), which made it something of an anti-climax after 3 days of cycling through desert on the Oodnadatta Track. The pub – the centre of every Aussie outback town (the centre of the universe for the […]

Cycling Across Australia 7 – The Oodnadatta Track

A loaded touring bike on the centre of an unsealed road in Australian Outback on Oodnadatta Track

The desert demands so much, and provides so little.When I was cycling the Oodnadatta Track, I decided in a melodramatic fit of frustration that this was surely the most godforsaken place in the world.It is now a few weeks since I reached Marree and finished the Oodnadatta Track, which has given me some time to […]

Across Myanmar in 24 (mostly illegal) sleeps!

Illegal wild camp in Myanmar. MSR Tent in a quarry at sunrise.

Wild Camping in Myanmar What I did in Myanmar… it was crazy. You may say stupid, and perhaps you’d be right. Foreigners must stay in a hotel every night, and it must be specially licenced to accept foreigners, i.e. very expensive. That is the law. But I didn’t want to stay in expensive hotels; it […]

Miracle in North India

There’s a theory called the six degrees of separation. If you took all your friends and acquaintances, and then all their friends and acquaintances, and then all their friends and acquaintances, and so on six times, you would know everyone in the whole world. That’s how tiny and connected our world is! Amazing huh? Well, […]