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I love highways and road trips. There is no better way to experience a place, feel its breeze in your hair, smell the countryside, share tea with friendly strangers and see it change shape, size, texture and colour...

The darkness collapsing the horizon was a call to action. Dusk meant my companion, Glenn, was not late, but lost in the desert, and ahead of him was an icy night somewhere along the last 85 kilometers of austere desert road.

Had I not been blinded by my desire for adventure, I would have gotten off the yacht while it was still in the Langkawi marina. But instead I watched the hull cut a path through the calm Malaysian water...

So it's 4 am again, and it's another bus journey. After 6 months on the road this was now part of the norm. Buses do not go at civilized times in other countries, no they go at dawn or at midnight...

I woke up this morning with a terrible Cambodian hangover - I had to find a good reason to go back to London. I sat in the bar where the girls call me handsome while feeding rice whiskey for $0.50 the bowl...

Have you ever had one of those dreams where you show up at work naked? The one where you can’t remember where you left your clothes and you are trying to act normal in front of your boss and coworkers?

The worst journey of my life came when I was travelling during the Chunyun period, the largest annual migration of people in the world. The people of China were either headed home for the New Year to visit relatives...

During dinner on the plane to China the stranger sitting next to me made an odd glugging sound, then started convulsing and flapping his arms around wildly.

For critics, Nick should have held the ice-axe to his left, on the opposite side of that sheer cliff.

Many journeys are difficult. I made numerous journeys round Malawi where I was stuffed into the back of a tiny truck surrounded by chickens and sacks of maize. The epic bus journey from Lilongwe, Malawi to Harare...