Introduction

This site has been set up to share my motorcycling experiences with friends, fellow travellers and other interested surfers; and, hopefully, to provide some vicarious pleasures, as well as useful tips, information  and insights.

It describes my motorcycle tours within Australia and abroad. It reports on experiences I've had 'on the road', such as hotels, camping, communications etc. I include my feeling about bikes I’ve owned and ridden at home and on overseas tours. I’ve got a few stories to tell by the fireside; and have a page on the odd things one comes across while riding. I plan to do a bit of blogging. And there’s an invitation for you to contibute through the guest book.

I hope you enjoy it and find some useful tips at the same time.

You can read my Twitter comments by clicking on the icon below; and my blogs by either clicking on the icon below or the heading My Blog to the left.

Google Maps

After much frustration, I think I have sufficiently mastered the art of creating and embedding maps into site pages. Check them out on all the pages under Meanders Abroad and Big Trip North

The Dragon and Dragon Rider?

You’ll find the answer on the Fireside page! Check out a blog on this dated 1 July 09. It’s under My Blog.

Slide Shows

Look out for slide shows in pages on Rajasthan, Turkey, Morocco, Fireside (in the El Crucero story), and Big Trip North.

Clockwise from top left: along Fossickers Way in northern NSW; at M'hamid on the edge of the Sahara in Morocco; broken down, with grass 'bollards', near Omeo in Victoria; Lions Rd crossing the Border Ranges, NSW/Qld border; the Lion’s Den Hotel at Helenvale, Far North Qld; camping on the Goodradigbee, ACT.

What’s New:

       1. A new Main Page called The Curious, Absurd and Lamentable. It's about people and situations I've come across while riding. You might be there! (3/01/2010)

2. A new page on the Kirtling Cricks - ancestors of William Crick (further updated 29/12/2009)

2. A revised page on William Crick under Fireside.

    3. A new page of stories by Reg Dodd, an Aboriginal leader from Marree. I met him on my Big Trip North. You can also access it from Fireside.

4. A revised page on my Big Trip North, which incorporates all the daily blogs, map, video clips and slide show. 

5. New bike - F800GS. Take a look on My Bikes.

6. New page on First Aid 

Big Trip North

My Big Trip North through South Australia to the Northern Territory and Outback Queensland finished on 18 Oct 2009. I have deleted the daily blogs....
The full story is now on a completely revised page. 

Don’t forget to check out My Blog. My Blog isn’t confined to motorcycle issues. It’s about anything I feel I want to write about! (I hadn't done much on it lately because of the big trip north, but have now revived it with an entry on 10 Nov 09.

(27 Nov 09)