Gypsy Biker

Asia, and Bali in particular,  just wouldn’t let go of me…!! Things in Timor had worked out better than expected and leaving for Australia before the Big Fella sailed was not an option I was about to consider… Morgan Parker had spent two weeks in Darwin, waiting for his bike to get there, having left [...]

Buzzing through the almost deserted streets of Kupang, I couldn’t help but notice that the parts of the town I could see, were clean and well maintained… This was a far cry from those of Sumbawa and Flores that I had been riding through recently… Captain Bligh of “HMS Bounty” fame, had spent a few [...]

The last part of my ride through Asia began with a sixteen hour ferry trip from Larantuka on Flores Island, to Kupang in West Timor… I was actually on the ferry for a total of twenty hours, as despite boarding at 10.00am, the vessel only left the harbour at 2.00pm… Those four hours alone were [...]

Shorty after bidding Cornelius goodbye, a light rain began falling, making the going on the road to Maumere a little tricky… The water brought residues of oil and diesel to the surface, and feeling my rear tyre lose grip on a few of the tighter corners, I slowed down and rode cautiously through the drizzle [...]

Cornelius, the guy I had met on the ferry from Sumbawa to Flores, was just about the only Indonesian on board who spoke any English, and we had spent a good deal of our time together discussing both my journey, and his life in Indonesia. He lived in the village of Watuneso, about 90 km [...]

I awoke from the sleep of the dead with sunlight streaming through the window of my room at the Safari Hotel… I had slept for nine hours straight, something I had not had the luxury of for what felt like a very long time… I think my body and brain had colluded sometime during the [...]