by Fraser | Jul 26, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Evolving, Learning
Melancholy infiltrated and gradually replaced the satisfaction of completing Yoga Teacher Training. Fellow students began to go their separate ways immediately upon the course finishing, and with each passing day fewer and fewer remained. The stark reality of an...
by Fraser | May 14, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Evolving, Learning
Leaving Palwal with a humbled sense of invincibility, and a handful of pills, the road to Delhi and beyond looked more daunting in my fragile state. With a date to keep in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala, balancing daily progress with recovery and staying out of...
by Fraser | May 3, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Evolving, Learning
Indore was the largest city I reached after leaving Mumbai, and the quantity and stature of the shopping malls, brimming with India’s ever expanding middle class, was a clear indication that many were prospering. In the evening the restaurants and bars were full...
by Fraser | Apr 26, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Doing
The flight to Mumbai was very pleasant. Somehow I had managed to slip through several on-flight baggage checks to avoid 160 pounds worth of excess baggage charges. The excess of the charges themselves were enough for me to chance my arm, and it worked (kind of). As...
by Fraser | Apr 9, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Evolving, Learning
Arriving into Shiraz, one thousand miles from Tabriz in twelve days, felt like a mini victory. Although keen to cycle on towards the port city of Bandar E Abbas, it was the turn of the Iranian New Year celebrations (Norooz) to halt my progress. The whole country...
by Fraser | Apr 4, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Learning
By the time I found a hotel in Tehran it was early afternoon and I had almost lost the will to live. Once the intensity of dodging high speed projectiles coming from every direction had been elevated and viewed through the perspective of a hotel window, the torment of...