The gang climb to Hai Van Pass, rated in the world’s top ten most beatiful coastal roads. Really only slightly less beautiful, when the engine is falling out the bottom of your bike… Continue reading Back When We Were in ‘Nam (Part 4): Hải Vân Pass
Arriving back at the intersection, Jared eased his bike over to the traffic lights where the entire gang had sat only 15 minutes earlier. Kadunk. Stalling, he had found, required far less energy than turning the bike off. Especially when … Continue reading Back When We Were in ‘Nam (Part 3): The Value of The Whole
“Could you be looooved, and be loved?” They were idling at an intersection in Da Nang and had been doing so for approximately 1 minute and 45 seconds. The eyes of a hundred local riders rested from time to time … Continue reading Back When We Were in ‘Nam (Part 2): Big City Life
Part 1 – The Gathering of the Wins There had been a conspiracy. After days of discussing how and how soon the motorbikes would be purchased, the deed was done. Arriving back from a morning of crepes and OJ from … Continue reading Back When We Were in ‘Nam: Motorcycling from Hoi An to Hanoi
She stood silhouetted in the downpour, gazing out at the droplets as they fell to their fate in the silken sea at Kina Bay. I’d like to call it destiny, but frankly she was just the only other person crazy … Continue reading Hitchhiker’s Guide Part 4: Mary and the Marvelous Mobile Apothecary
I was in Trelew, a city on Argentina’s east coast and a bizarre experience with a truck driver had left me in two minds about hitching west across the country to the Chilean border. To be fair, I’d been scared … Continue reading Hitchhiker’s Guide Part 3: Lost in Translation
The white Patagonian sun bears down on me through the glass. Picking at my empanada, I lift my gaze again to where the truck drivers are refueling outside. Sparse nothingness extends out from the gas station for the hundreds … Continue reading Hitchhiker’s Guide Part 2: Out of The Mouths of Gramps
Part One: One Eyed Jack Hitching just isn’t as popular anymore. At least it feels that way as I stand on the side of the road out of Greymouth; thumb out, grin manic and eyes ever-so-pleading as cars continue to … Continue reading Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Down Under – Case Studies from New Zealand and Argentina
I excused myself from the Sadhu’s tent and walked out into the starry night. As I left, the entrance flaps flew in a fresh gust of wind and I shuddered. Not from the cold. But with a vague sensation of … Continue reading Watching the Bodies Burn in Varanasi, India
The alternating red and blue brings Nick’s features into relief and I see my tepid fear in his eyes Our young driver had pulled a shirt over his head and scrambled out of the car to the rear where three … Continue reading Hitchhiking, Drugs and a Love Motel: A São Paulo Story
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