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| The luckiest person |
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| More about me |
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| My thoughts on Cycle Touring |
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| Planning |
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| What I ride |
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| What I take |
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| Where I go |
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| Acknowledging our First Nations People |
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| The indigo foundation - some questions and answers |
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A few stories, some quite long, not a photo in sight |
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| Room 207 |
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| Islam and the eye of the needle |
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| The two Roghayehs |
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| A night in the waiting room of Kiyohata Station, Hidaka, Hokkaido, Japan |
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| The four agricultural scientists |
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| Tragedy on the Nullarbor |
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| A bicycle, buses and a train in China |
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The Ride from Canberra to Singapore |
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| Day 1, May Day, Canberra to Yass |
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| Day 2 - Yass to Boorowa, a short day made long |
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| Day 3 The wind and hills to Cowra |
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| Day 4 - One Perfect Day, Cowra to Forbes |
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| Day 5 - Forbes to Condobolin via Bogan Gate |
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| Day 6 - North towards Nymagee |
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| Day 7 - Onwards to Cobar |
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| Day 8 - To Bourke - the first triple |
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| Day 9 - North of Bourke |
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| Day 10 - Crossing into Queensland and on to Cunnamulla |
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| Day 11 - The first burning hoop - Bradman also got ducks! |
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| Day 12 - towards Wyandra |
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| Day 13 - to Charleville |
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| Day 14 - north of Charleville |
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| Day 15 - Tambo and beyond |
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| Day 16 - onwards to Barcaldine |
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| Day 17 - Battling to Longreach |
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| Day 18 - in the zone towards Winton |
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| Day 19 - into and out of Winton |
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| Day 20 - Through Kynuna, an 18 Bustard day |
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| Day 21 - onwards to Cloncurry |
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| Day 22 - West to Mount Isa |
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| Day 23 - towards Camooweal and the Northern Territory border |
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| Day 24 - to Camooweal and beyond |
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| Day 25 - a surge towards the Stuart Highway |
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| Day 26 - through Barkly Homestead and beyond |
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| Day 27 - forwards and backwards |
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| Day 28 - finally heading north again |
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| Day 29 - through Elliott to a camp at "Termite Downs" |
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| Day 30 - north with a detour to Daly Waters |
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| Day 31 - north to Mataranka |
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| Day 32 - and on to Katherine |
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| Day 33 - north from Katherine; the hardest day |
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| Day 34 - Hayes Creek to Acacia Hills |
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| Day 35 The run into Darwin |
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| Day 44 - Onwards to Dili |
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| Day 45 - Meeting Juventude ba Dezenvolvimentu Nasional |
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| Day 46 - An average day in Dili |
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| Day 47 - an outing to a community with JDN |
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| Day 48 - ever had a day that didn't quite go to plan? |
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| Day 49 - The beauty of a novel |
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| Day 50 - biting the bullet and exponential anguish |
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| Day 51 - a mobile, a cemetery and a museum |
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| Day 52 - a photo with Carmen and a JDN walking tour |
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| Day 53 - Finally on the road again |
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| Day 54 - A day trip to Balibo |
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| Day 55 - Indonesia - a border crossing, a big climb and turning down an offer to sleep with a trainee Catholic priest |
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| Day 56 - from one police station to the next |
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| Day 57 - Soe finally, Kupang within reach and a hat-trick |
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| Day 58 - A room with a view |
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| Day 59 - Kupang |
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| Days 60 and 61 - One white guy and his bike on a cruise |
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| Day 62 - Towards Maumere |
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| Day 63 - Today I traveled |
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| Day 64 - Ricky Cowboy's: a photo essay |
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| Day 65 - Upwards and downwards in gloom |
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| Day 66 - A wind along the coast and a climb to Boawae |
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| Day 67 - climbing in the morning and coasting in the afternoon |
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| Day 68 - Up and up and up some more |
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| Day 69 - a day off the bike and a trip to the "hobbit" cave |
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| Day 70 - Down and down other than the uphill bits |
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| Day 71 - Overcoming tourist shock in Labuan Bajo |
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| Day 72 - A day of sightseeing, snorkeling and dragon hunting. |
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| Day 73 - A ferry ride to Sape, Sumbawa |
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| Day 74 - Welcome to Sumbawa; Sape to Dompu |
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| Day 75 - A better day: to Empang |
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| Day 76 - Towards Sumbawa Besar with onions halfway |
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| Day 77 - A day of celebration, another ferry and no hotel. But there's magic. |
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| Day 78 - I discover my whereabouts and then pedal across Lombok |
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| Day 79 - I've cycled to the Diamantina and Bali too and I won't be back until the cycling's done |
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| Day 80 - A lazy ride to Ubud and a bunch of random photos |
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| Day 81 - What's hard about bicycle touring? |
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| Day 82 - Ubud to Lovina - 40 up, 40 down, 20 on the flat |
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| Day 83 - A day of the finest travel - to Gilimanuk |
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| Day 84 - a Wise move and getting to Java |
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| Day 85 - A roach, a ride to Pasuruan and a celebration of cycling |
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| Day 86 - A turn to the southwest with Yogya in sights |
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| Day 87 - Opting for the hills |
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| Day 88 - Bound for Surakarta, Solo |
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| Day 89 - Solo: batik, murals and tofu |
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| Day 90 - Solo: a day in three parts |
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| Day 91 - Solo surprises, a boring ride and Prambanan |
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| Day 92 - A red tie day and mushrooms |
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| Day 93 - Kraton |
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| Day 94 - Museum Affandi and making a little luck |
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| Day 95 - delayed in Yogyakarta |
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| Day 96 - delayed in Yogyakarta II; fitness declining rapidly |
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| Day 97 - on the road again, leading with the nose. |
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| Day 98 - I didn't reach Pangandaran but I did find Paradise. |
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| Day 99 - I found Pangandaran the hard way. |
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| Day 100 - a lazy 100 on day 100. |
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| Day 101 - a classic coastal ride on the south Java coast |
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| Day 102 - I just couldn't get things right! |
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| Day 103 - why were things so like yesterday? |
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| Day 104 - the right direction, waltzing to Daisy's. |
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| Day 105 - a lazy day in Bogor with a Christo-inspired cathedral |
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| Day 106 - an even lazier day in Bogor with a trip to a silk farm |
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| Days 107:110 - meeting Arnold and flying to Singapore and back |
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| Day 111 - a day in Bogor's magnificent botanic gardens |
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| Day 112 - a hard ride to Rankasbitung or is it Panancangan? |
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| Day 113 - Sumatra, I hope, on a red tie day. |
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| Day 114 - a few percent out of Sumatra, I hope |
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| Day 115 - an avalanche of misdirection; 90 km to the good. |
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| Day 116 - north and I mean it! |
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| Day 117 - 100 km to the good, and a photo essay on swiftlet houses |
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| Day 118 - a big day north with an ending I didn't need |
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| Day 119 - A race against spokes. |
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| Day 120 - limping north into a massive traffic jam |
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| Day 121 - a tropical triple and fifteen to spare |
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| Day 122 - I got it all wrong on a red tie day. |
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| Day 123 - finally, I get somewhere |
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| Day 124 - towards the 300's |
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| Day 125 - S < 0 < N |
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| Day 126 - out of the undulations and into the 100's |
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| Day 127 - a tricky ride to Dumai |
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| Day 128 - I know how to make it tough |
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| Day 129 - Singapore greets me with a drenching |
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| The Grand Plan |
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| Days 130-133 - lounging in Singapore |
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| Days 134-136 - Sydney, parallels with Singapore |
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| Day 137 - out of Sydney and over the Razorback |
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| Day 138 - through Picton, an interview, lunch in Berrima and a sprint to Goulburn |
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| Day 139 - is this the ultimate red tie day? |
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| Postscript |
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