PAST ARTICLES

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An article from the winter 2007 edition of Verge Magazine, about part of my Silk Road ride.  Click here to read the article.

An article I wrote for the LAS Panorama magazine in 2012 about my Silk Road bicycle ride.  This trip will be the subject of my next book, Silk and Solitude, which will appear in the not-too-distant future.  Click here to read the article (it's on page 17 of the PDF/page 32 of the print magazine).

A manifesto I first wrote in 2003 for the Lakehead University Argus, and then updated a few years later, about why I travel so obsessively, and what I have learned, and continue to learn, on the road. Click here to read the piece.

In 1999, I visited the castles of the Assassins in the mountains of Syria, keen to learn more about the 12th century sect that was the original suicide terrorist organization.  Click here to read the first half of the article, and here to read the second half.

In 1996, I got to live the life of Hemingway for a day in the highlands near Bukittingi, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.  Click here to read the story.

In 1996 I got up close and personal with some of our closest primate relatives in a national park on the Indonesian side of the island of Borneo.  A version of this article was published in the Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal in 2004.  Click here to read the first half of the article, and here to read the second.

In 2002 I got stuck trying to leave the idyllic Andaman Islands of India.  Click here to read how an escape was engineered.

A stroll around the centre of the old town of Lhasa in 2001.  Click here to read the story.

Falling off the map in Vietnam during a bicycle trip in 2006.  Click here to read more.

Living next to a monastery in Myanmar isn't all spirituality and silent meditation.  Click here to read the story.

This story, about one of the holiest sites in Myanmar, appeared in the book To Myanmar With Love.  Click here to read the article.