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Two blokes from Yorkshire ,England 1995 . Cycle into a 40degree New Delhi day ,east toward Kathmandu,Nepal and South East Asia ,Illegal border crossings, near death by :thugs ,knife bandits ,car ,cyclones and crocodile. After bicycles stolen , hitching ,walking and sailing . Busting guts on a sheep station .No BS , No hype ,just how things really happened.And hopefully inspiring to potential travellers stuck in a rut doing the same same and turning to drink and worse at the weekends to compe ...
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After waking up alive we jump on our steeds and ride out of Paris,rejoicing when we find the countryside again . After several more scrapes in boat and a Mercedes we hit a big blob of a mountain range. Undeterred by the perpetual headwinds ,we labour up and onward toward Perpignan and the chance to pick grapes .

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After getting knifed /falling in love /being crushed in a mangle .i limp back home to lick my wounds . Poor Dicky was in the same boat and back under his old superman duvet at his Ma’s . It was at this point my Padre said “why don’t you go and pick grapes 🍇 in France đŸ‡«đŸ‡·!
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This is another travel tale but with a much younger self and with a very good mate of mine Dicky Hanlon .It’s the summer of 1988 .. both of us 19 years of age .After getting simultaneously dumped by our girlfriends ,my dad aka Padre said “why don’t you go and pick grapes 🍇 in France đŸ‡«đŸ‡· . “Notoriously low on cash 💰 we buy a couple of second hand pus

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Back at the Blue Oyster Bar Trying to get enough cash to leave Tonga đŸ‡č🇮 while avoiding gold diggers and getting married .Lil Frank burns his bridge with Naomi .This is the last of the book 📕 chapters . Gonna finish my book next and if I get enough positive feedback do another podcast of 7 months hitching and walking back through SE Asia . Just gott

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Working two jobs
 amongst drug and alcohol dependent tenants during the day and cocaine addicted customers and staff at night . Then a dude rocks up smoking bongs from dawn til dusk and drags Deano into the darkness. Justin and me take sanctuary in the ocean swells at maroubra . A local Bra boy hurts Jay . Amongst all this my old man shows up âŹ†ïž 😎

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Finally Bri and Me reach the “pot of gold” at the end of our rainbow . The pot of gold also has six meter long crocodiles,box jelly fish and big sharks ..but the streets are even more dangerous.Key words :Troppo .drunk arseholes, near death experiences,running for your life.
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Could have died but ended up saving a life in this one ( with the help of a legend Balinese dude with two surf boards)Bri and me reach Kuta Bali ,the young Australians Ibiza .. gritty seedy and sporadically dangerous . Corruption .. Drugs .. and close shaves before being summoned to help a drowning man . There’s a bit of time travel to give more de

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Decided to retell the Thailand episode with more ZING and in two parts .If you like this more than the sleepier version. Would love to hear some feed back . Just write it on the back of a $100 note and mail it too 
. Rich Morris East Coast Australia 🇩đŸ‡ș or email drrichlonghair@gmail.com subject “Tales from the Ute” 😎

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This episode follows Bri and me circumnavigating the Gulf of Thailand heading in the direction of Cambodia . We stop in at Pattaya until we realise it’s one big brothel And head further south in search of paradise at Ko Samet .Bris holy water saves his arse and I end up getting a beating .
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Bri and me follow a hand drawn map and ride along the Terai (grass lands and swamps ) til we find a break in the Himalayan mountains . Slowly we weave our way up the river valleys ,avoiding the massive drops offs and washouts . We sleep rough in Tiger territory,meet a friendly Gurkha, and hobble into Kathmandu.. no money a bunch of bananas and a lo

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Have split this episode in two more bite sized chunks . Flashed up the intro a bit but apart from that it’s the same audio as before .This Episode is the real start of the journey and hopefully inspiration to anyone considering stepping off the 'merry go round' for a bit .The sudden inspiration to leave and the challenge of finding a committed trav

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Have split this episode in two more bite sized chunks . Flashed up the intro a bit but apart from that it’s the same audio as before .This Episode is the real start of the journey and hopefully inspiration to anyone considering stepping off the 'merry go round' for a bit .The sudden inspiration to leave and the challenge of finding a committed trav

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This Episode paints a lil picture of where the journey began ,upstairs above a laundrette , and the need to find adventure from an early age . It touches on the rather rustic childhood I had in a rural town before moving closer to the bigger cities and the characters I encountered. From kids knocking me out with bricks to thugs trying to beat me ,t

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Are the finer things in life only available to a select few? How do you identify the point at which pursuing pleasure becomes unhealthy? Once you've learnt to experience the layers of taste does that make it easier to then see in layers and think in layers? As usual there are more questions here than answers, but questions can lead to curiosity and

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The real occurrences in my life didn’t happen during the big events, but in the little gaps between them. The church meetings and big Christian rallies were not the places where I had life changing experiences. Instead, it was on my days off and during my holidays (when I was far from organisations and institutions) that I felt free enough to be su

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Chrissie Chevasutt runs a facebook group called Transgender Church. She talks to me about the central role of transgender people. We are fools if we think that tolerating the presence of the marginalised and allowing them space in the margins is enough. By joining them in that space we make them central. And not as an act of grace towards them. It’

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Make yourself a hot chocolate and don your stripy bed cap. Garbutt and Garcés are sat up in bed learning to sew when they would really rather not. Is growth dependent on pushing ourselves that bit extra? Is good parenting aided by the rediscovery of our inner child? Is the earth flat? Are we a drop in the ocean or the entire ocean in a drop?... fin

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A mermaid and a knight in armour met and fell in love at a festival. They now travel the world together in a van. This conversation reveals some of what it's like to live a life which is surrendered to the wonder and hard work of serendipity. @thecornishmermaid on instagram http://www.kadersadventures.weebly.com

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