19th October Not the best close up picture of the bike but I'll take better as we go along. Very robust, extreme Yamaha engineering, like...

18th October The wind blew me like I was a bird. It smoothed out my pedalling and my head rocked less from side to side. Ocassionally I...

17th October If there are many ways for Eskimo’s to describe snow, how do I describe tiredness: forget it, I’m tired and there are many...

16th October Wilfred Thesiger liked sleeping in the desert A Bit of Information Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.[1] He was the...

15th October Left Tabuk in the 7am rush hour. The traffic is safe enough as long as you don’t get in the way. There’s only one direction...

14th October Hotels are not evenly spread across this vast landscape so to go beyond Tabuk would mean another night under the stars but...

13th October - Southern Jordan to the Saudi Arabian border I am sitting in a fast food snack joint a hundred metres from the border...

12th October Today I am so tired I cannot move. I lie in my hard bed which has a single sheet entangled around my feet exposing most of...

11th October Trucks chase me all day. Not a minute passes without the air around me being sucked from my safe place, waste oily air...

7th October The journey will break for a short while while I sort out what to do about the new difficulties in Israel. Updates to follow....

6th October Rest day I don't know why I stopped, maybe it was the welcome from the elderly lady proprietor of the Sun Hotel by the beach...

5th October Aigio to Kineta I've ended up in an old fashioned hotel run by the daughter. She said her father built it 50 years ago. I...