14th November Today started slightly differently. I get up but I have packed the night before. I dress. Brush teeth. Exit the room, slide...

The day always starts the same. The alarm rings at 6am and I get up to go to the toilet because I’ve been drinking so many fluids to hydrate

12th November Another day on the road. Can't say much happened except that in India the world passes by quickly, effusively and there's a...

11th November The starts were getting consistently earlier. Waking from my comfortable darkness has always been a shock to my nervous...

10th November As you know we have three fabulous sponsors without whom this journey would not happen. Obviously Yamaha and my great lock...

7th November I've arrived in Dubai and what an entrance! The E11 turns into a full blown 6 lane motorway on which I found one small sign...

6th November I rose at 5.30am and was in the road an hour later. At that moment I felt fragile. I was swimming but not able to touch the...

5th November Nothing happened during the day other than I transited another small section of the United Arab Emirates. It's not that the...

4th November That night I stayed in a hotel room on the gas station complex a few kilometres out of Al Batha, which in itself is less of...

3rd November It was an unexpected stopover. Having actually got on the road by 5am and realised the beauty of an early morning ride...

2nd November I've been scammed I'll be honest, I can't remember today - sure I'm in the Saudi Arabian desert, but that night in my small...

1st November The shortest day of the trip. I left at 6.30am I eat omelette and bread for breakfast. I say good bye to the chef and...