Day 277 Vang Vieng – Pakxan (Laos) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
8th January 2015 Leave 8.45 Miles rode 212 (339km) For the first hour (60km) it was pretty boring with nice scenery but having ridden in such beautiful scenery of late… I stopped for a coffee in a village and felt quite deflated for the first time in a while. I looked at a map on […]
Day 276 Luang Prabang – Vang Vieng (Laos) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
7th January 2015 Leave 10.45 Miles rode 125 (200km) I left Luang Prabang and again didn’t take the direct route, I initially rode southwest and the roads were empty, I then headed southeast and the road started to climb, the ride was amazing and through a mountain range that peaked at 1,900 metres. I was […]
Day 275 Hongsa – Luang Prabang (Laos) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
6th January 2015 Leave 10.30am Miles rode 126 (202km) The plan was to leave at 9am but after a coffee and getting petrol & cash the leave time was deferred. I went to the ATM and it gave me the usual option of how much to withdraw and it offered me 1,000,000! (That’s a million […]
Day 274 Nan – Hongsa (Laos) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
5th January 2015 Leave 10am Miles rode 136 (218km) Should I stay or should I go now? I have no destination or timescale to get wherever so I could have relaxed and stayed put or headed off? I headed off & think I died and went to heaven. I decided a week ago to cross […]
Day 273 Kamphaeng Phet – Nan (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
4th January 2015 Leave 10.15am Miles rode 233 (373km) After a tiring days ridding yesterday I slept in. Ridding the motorbike today was much better, I was off the highway and on smaller less crowded roads. As I ventured further into Northern Thailand the roads emptied and at 12.30 the road started to climb through […]
Day 272 Bangkok – Kamphaeng Phet (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
3rd January 2015 Leave 8.26am Miles rode 237 (379km) I left at 8.26am with tears in my eyes. I always knew it would be hard saying goodbye to Beth. I rode a few hundred metres and stopped at a 7Eleven, I had forgotten the reaction one gets ridding far from home and soon people gathered […]
Days 231 to 271 – Dan & Beth’s Travels in Thailand
22nd November / 2nd January 2015 1 x Train 2 x Plane 7 x Boat 3 x Scooter I left the Dakar in Bangkok being serviced and overhauled put a few clothes in a small rucksack and… I met Beth at Bangkok airport and after a night chilling out we got the night train to […]
BBC Essex Christmas message 2014
If you didn’t hear my BBC Essex Christmas message it went out on ‘The Dave Monk Show’ 17th December 2014
Day 236 – 27th November – The remainder of 2014…
My wonderful daughter Bethan arrived here in Thailand about a week ago with 7kg of bike spares & other stuff so, the bike is being overhauled for the next month by Dynamic Motors in Bangkok and I’m taking a break from everything and travelling with Bethan to as many islands as possible. This means I’ll […]
Destination Unknown by Kristjan
2014.11.10 Destination unknown from Kristjan Gislason on Vimeo. This film was made by Kristjan Gislason from Iceland. Kristjan was one of 10 riders who I joined riding across Myanmar in early November 2014. Kristjan’s text; Three weeks before Dan left England to go on his “destination unknown” trip, he lost his driver´s licence for 6 […]
Day -18(minus18) – 20th March 2014 leave 6.00am Miles drove 100 Chelmsford – Oxford
Various people have asked over the last 7 months why a van collected me from my house and took me and the Dakar to Calais, France to start my adventure… They must have seen I was in no fit state to walk out onto the street but nevertheless they let me. I could hardly walk […]
Days 220 to 230 – 12th / 21st November 2014 Bangkok
I checked into a hotel where they kindly let me keep the bike in the reception so I was settled for the next 10 days waiting for my daughter to arrive. I had heard that riding here would be a nightmare, the reality is the drivers here are so much better than in other cities, […]
