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The benefits of human-powered travel: a thread.
Most of my expeditions have involved travelling either on foot or by bike.
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Most of my expeditions have involved travelling either on foot or by bike.
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Other than being able to take in the little flourishes of a place that might otherwise slip by undetected, there’s a vulnerability to slow travel – to only ever being a sprained ankle or a punctured tyre away from a night sleeping by the road – and it doesn’t go unnoticed.
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This is an outbuilding I slept in in Laos after being waved down by a family on the outskirts of a village not marked on my map.
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In the fading light, I wheeled my bike up a dusty red path and laid it against the wall of a hut with a corrugated roof, quietly slotting in as a spectator to the evening’s activities, which were already well underway.
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Women emptied enormous vats of freshly steamed rice into troughs, while the men of the family pounded away at it with huge wooden mallets to make sticky rice, later served up by the kids on a bed of banana leaves.
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As I curled up in a sleeping bag by the embers of a fire, shy silhouettes occasionally peaked around the doorframe to check on me and my bike, and I silently congratulated myself for not taking the bus.
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