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Bumble Bee
There's something really refreshing about hitting the trail with the sole intention of just enjoying the ride. No destination. Nowhere to get to. Just the thrill of motion, and the buzz of the pushing one's personal limits. A few months ago I spent a couple of weeks driving a dirt bike across Java, Indonesia with a posse of wreckless friends. We only covered around 1800 miles (3000 kms) but that wasn't the point; finding the dirtiest, most challenging and varied tracks definitely was the main objective! It was decidedly tough, both physically and mentally to wrestle our resilient machines over...
Czech it out...Mercurious Designs mission for Moldavite
Czech it out A few years ago I found myself meandering thru Europe in the summertime. Although it was the season to be sunny, somehow the weather had neglected to follow the suggestion, and it rained pretty much continuously. Not the best news as I was at the time meaningfully engaged as ‘The Merchant Adventurer’ bringing the stunning hand crafted silver creations of Mercurious Designs to the poor neglected peoples of the Old World. After successfully exhibiting at a trade show in Alsace, surrounded by vineyards and castles, I found myself heading beyond the back of...
Walk on the Wild Side
Every year or so I join a group of friends, intrepid freaks, to head out into some remote tribal terrain to ‘go native’…to experience different lifestyles and cultural norms, to trek across impassable terrain and to generally ‘get lost’ from the world. Our basic mission statement: to push the envelope and have an extremely good time doing so. This trip we were off to Irian Jaya, (Indonesian Papua New Guinea). It is the world’s second biggest island but also one of the least explored places on the globe, with uncharted areas glaring blankly out of the map, and new...