it's Sunday morning, the sun is out and I'm in Horley, a quiet little town in Surrey England. Much of my energy (what's left after the jetlag) over the past few days has been spent searching the web, papers and many bike shops for a uitable steed upon which I can explore this beautiful country. My wife expressed a preference for Ducatis (she already has the Ducati jacket) and my mate Alex said it has to be red. i was walking around Croydon the other night, after...

G'day Friends, after a short break the blog is back. As you will notice I've moved a long way since my last blog. Air travel is a wonderful thing when it all goes well, I landed safely at Heathrow on Wednesday morning, feeling even more relieved than usual after watching the news of another flight going missing before I had boarded in Singapore. I had a small delay at Heathrow when the passport check lady wanted to know if my wife had given me permission to go...

G'day from Cloudy Singapore. Last time I turned up here (I've never seen the country outside the airport - must do that sometime) I was really glad to have left Australia. This time I'm still happy to be underway at last but don't feel the same sense of relief to be out of Oz. I think I'm a lot happier with life there than I was in 2005. This morning I had to face up to what I expect will be the second most difficult day of my trip, saying goodbye to my Lovely ...

It was quite late yesterday when I sat down to contemplate the official ending of my work focus and the commencement of my holiday and travel focus. For the next couple of months my main job is travelling! The first direction I've travelled is south, to catch up briefly with each of my offspring before I go away properly. We left Perth later than planned but enjoyed a good run to Albany despite the holdiay weekend traffic and the accompanying police. Have caought...

G'day everybody. Today I'm trying to learn how to blog. Having some issues uploading photo's but apart from that it seems pretty simple. Not actually travelling yet but have booked the tickets and sorted out most of the things I'll need. Might do a ride to Albany on the weekend to see family, then I'm off. Feels good to be sorting through the work stuff and setting a course. Worked out the photo thing - that's the view from my office at home. Might leave it on t...