by Fraser | Jul 17, 2016 | Cycling around the world, Evolving, Learning
I had been in Ho Chi Minh City for five months when riding my motorbike home along the river that evening, with a smile from ear-to-ear, I felt for the first time like an integrated part of the city. I had become part of the hustle, the smells, the culture, the beat,...
by Fraser | Dec 5, 2014 | Evolving, Learning
Looking back over the last sixteen months on the road, one aspect of using a bicycle to travel 12,600 miles through twenty-one countries stands out above all others: struggle. In a world where we are constantly marketed products and services to make our lives easier,...
by Fraser | Oct 17, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Evolving, Learning
The sweat was falling from every pore like Niagara falls. My head was pounding as if trapped in a vice with Dave Grohl playing the drums on the tightening screw. But I was freezing cold, and hurting. A lot. The seconds ticked past forlornly. Every. Single. One. Maybe...
by Fraser | Oct 6, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Doing, Evolving, Learning
It struck me that it’s not only when cycling that, metaphorically speaking, sometimes our wheels stop rolling. Things we normally do without a great deal of conscious effort suddenly consume our every waking moment. A problem at work escalates from an...
by Fraser | Sep 30, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Evolving, Learning
Cycling through north east India was a very different experience to that of central India. The region was connected to the mainland by a slither of land between Nepal and Bangladesh just fourteen miles wide. Separated into nine different states, each one with...
by Fraser | Aug 8, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Evolving, Learning
One year down the road, with just over 9,000 miles on the odometer and experiences from seventeen countries forever etched in my memory, it seemed like the perfect time to take another look back at the actual route cycled, this time from Yaniklar, Turkey to Kathmandu,...