Solitary Refinement
Parts 1 to 3 It's been 10 days since I've had a conversation in English. Well, except for a five minute one the other day when I bumped...
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Solitary Refinement 1
It's been 10 days since I've had a conversation in English. Well, except for a five minute one the other day when I bumped into a Swiss...
Solitary Refinement 2
Sam Neua For a provincial capital, this sure is a hick town. It's really the backblocks of Laos, which is really nice. I haven't seen any...
Solitary Refinement 3
To Viếng Xai I had 2 full days of resting. I was gonna have only one, but at the end of it I really felt like it wasn't enough, my legs...
Going Tribal
Parts 1 to 3 Shanti Keochanty. Another peaceful, quiet Lao village. Nothing much has happened since I rolled in a few hours ago, just a...
Going Tribal 1
Shanti Keochanty. Another peaceful, quiet Lao village. Nothing much has happened since I rolled in a few hours ago, just a bit of farm...
Going Tribal 2
Phonsavan I stayed in this cute little guest house. Every day I had some variation on this soup, called fer, which is actually the same...
Going Tribal 3
Muang Kham The next day I rode along the plain for awhile, and then got back into the hills, and eventually to another plain. Photogenic...
A Big Out Breath
Parts 1 to 3 Oh my Buddha. You've got no idea how good it feels to be back in Southeast Asia again. My body's celebrating. It's suddenly...
A Big Out Breath 1
Oh my Buddha. You've got no idea how good it feels to be back in Southeast Asia again. My body's celebrating. It's suddenly being...
A Big Out Breath 2
Headin' Fer The Hills I could've stayed in Vientiane for ages longer, but decided to get moving, as I'm hatching a few plans, and they...
A Big Out Breath 3
Getting Higher The next day I really hit the hills, and had a long day of cycling. My legs are doing really well, I gotta say, given that...
Sea Change
Last Day In Luang So Sam the Man’s gone, on his tuk tuk and van back to Nong Khiaw. He took a nausea pill before he left, as the last...
In Sickness And In Wealth
Kuang Si Sometimes you visit a place which is so overwhelmingly and surprisingly beautiful that you have to sit still for a while, in...
Friends In Deed
Holed Up Well well well. You never know what dodgy potholes will suddenly appear in the road. Only one day before Sam, Tondi and Otis...
Come Heaven And High Water
Don’t You Hate People Who Are Always Happy? I apologise. I can’t help it. I’m not doing it on purpose. But as the days pass by I’m just...
50 Shades Of Green
Yesterday About 30 years ago, Wolf and I spent a fair bit of time riding on the Laos side of the Mekong, travelling through these parts...
The Laodown
Ouch. My smile hurts. And I’ve got sore wavers. My celeb status has gone gangbusters in this country. From pretty much the first moment I...
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G’day.
My name’s Oleś. I’m a vagabond, and, I gotta tell ya, it's an amazing life. I spent 9 months circumnavigating Australia, and then over a year zigzagging on my bicycle throughout Southeast Asia and China, and spending the winter in India and Nepal. Now I’m in Central Asia, on the slow cycle road to Europe. But you never know where you’ll end up. That’s the way, u-huh u-huh, I like it, u-huh u-huh.
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