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The universe is under no obligation to comply with our plans. The backcountry discovery of Arizona turned to New Mexico then… Click here for a

At 5am Monday morning the alarm went off and I regretfully forfeited the extensive all-inclusive buffet breakfast to attempt to get back to Bulgaria in

In the night headlights shone through my tent, so I opened it and shone back. A small car, a Lada or something with roof luggage

I realise I’m in a valley on the Pamir Highway, it’s not quite what I had in mind, 3 paved lanes in each direction, surrounded

As the manuscript comes back from the copy editor I thought I’d share a few of my favourite bits for the first third of the

The heat is becoming an issue, a constant and unavoidable theme of the journey. OK I left a few weeks later than planned due to

There were clues that passed me by, with annoyance but not consideration.  The Kazakhstan steppe is simultaneously stimulating and mind numbing. There is so little

No one has evert said after reading In Search of Greener Grass, ‘now I have to see Russia for myself’. It would be no exaggeration

Its wasn’t fear, it wasn’t exactly daunt, it wasn’t imperative, but it was necessary I had to cross into Russia, apprehension I suppose it was,