Bike to the Beach

If adventure holidays can leave you exhausted and lazy vacations lack the right degree of fulfilment, then why not combine the two with an eventful bike ride across some wildly unpredictable zone like Central India, and follow it directly with an indulgent sprawl upon the beach of a peaceful tropical paradise, provided you can still find one. After a journey intended as a one-off, you find this kind of thing habit-forming, and you continue with further similar journeys, through Vietnam, lengthways along Cuba, down the East Coast of Malaysia and variously through parts of Laos, Cambodia, Burma and around the coast of Taiwan; each time sampling the delights of various island retreats, some with lasting qualities, others sadly fleeting. Witness how the Globe gets wrecked and how, on other areas, it is lovingly preserved. Close-up and out there on your own, see how the world can both threaten and welcome you, in the travels of your life. Read more