A selection of my published articles
Environmental – online
Environmental – print
Drowning Democracy – published in Green Magazine Winter 2007, Issue 23
Drowning Democracy tear sheet winter 2007
Excerpt: The nightly news often brings tales of grief and despair and when your wife asks you to come and look at the television, the expression on her face hides nothing. There on the evening news, the state’s leader has just announced the government’s plans to build a dam. A dam, that when built, will mean your house, your land; in fact your entire community within the next five years will be a drowned memory. You and your family are being forced to sacrifice the very thing that provides security and a sense of belonging for the good of a distant, ever-expanding and thirsty urban population…
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Travel – online
- Online travel articles
Travel – print
Death Highway – published in Untamed Travel Magazine, September 2006.
Tear sheet from Untamed Travel Magazine September 2006
Excerpt: My knuckles turn white as I grip the bar on the roof and nod to the three men standing beside me. It’s a cool January morning as we slowly drive past the Mae Sot Police Station. I look down at my feet to make sure I’m securely standing on the tailgate.
The sawngthaew slows and we turn south towards the village of Umphang. I bend down to stretch my back and see twenty-five woman, children and old men sitting or laying on two small bench seats…
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Touring Norfolk Island – published in Australian Cyclist Magazine Dec 1999-Jan 2000
Touring Norfolk Island tear sheet January 2000
Excerpt: My first glimpse of Norfolk Island was a brief flash of emerald green hills through the low cloud cover. From the air it appeared as though the island’s size, or lack of it, was going to make cycle touring a problem. I really wasn’t in the mood to do laps and after all, riding over the same ground twice is almost the definition of that more dreaded “T” word – training. Like any adventurer I had to have that special destination, one that presented something truly memorable.
I quickly reassured myself that some of the most memorable parts of previous tours have been the areas of forested mountain climbs, quiet roads, clean air and breath-taking scenery….
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