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Although I had no initial intention of travelling for so long, I was able to do so financially due to lending my life-savings to a friend who was just starting a successful business. It was also at a time when interest rates were high and the British pound was strong. For seven years I lived on £300 per month which covered all my expenses and even allowed me to save a little for a couple of visits back to England for important family events. I lived very frugally, staying in the cheapest accommodation or free-camping and eating delicious food from street stalls. Hurrah for internet banking which made managing my finances so easy! Visas
for each country I passed through were obtained as I went, often
at the border when I got there. Some I had to pay for, some were
free. Things are changing in the world and I don’t know
whether travelling like this without obtaining visas in advance
is now possible. Go and find out! My adventures took me all over India, Pakistan (where I broke my leg and was cared for for many weeks by a kind Pakistani family), Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, East Timor, Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand (where I fell in love and worked as a hospice nurse), Ecuador (when the love affair didn’t work out), Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and home rapidly via the US and Canada. I shipped or flew myself and the Enfield over the seas but rode overland whenever possible. Twice I thought I was going to die whilst on small yachts with the bike: once when travelling from Malaysia to Indonesia, and then in transit from Colombia to Panama; I slept with a knife under my pillow when not on watch! In the Straits of Malacca the boat was robbed by pirates at sea not long after the five Indonesian castaways we’d rescued had been landed in Malaysia. After that I vowed to stay on land which didn’t mean I stuck to my word or that the rest of the seven year journey back to Bristol was always smooth… If you subscribe to The Rider’s Digest, you can read more …www.theridersdigest. I
have also been featured on motorcycle travel DVD.
Some moments in pictures ... click for the photo feature
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