(Dangerous )Tales from the UTE (pick up truck)lonely planet.bike packing, near death experiences,dangerous travel ,grassroots-travel, bicycle, cycle touring ,hitchhiking,sailing,illegal border crossing,drugs,guns, corruption, comedy,humour,philosophy, inspiration.India,Thailand ,Malaysia,Indonesia,Australia.sheep farms,fruit picking ,washing dishes ,knives ,opium, heroin, bandits,Khun Sa ,

This is another travel tale but with a much younger self and with a very good mate of mine Dicky Hanlon .It’s the summer of 1988 .. both of us 19 years of age .After getting simultaneously dumped by our girlfriends ,my dad aka Padre said “why don’t you go and pick grapes 🍇 in France 🇫🇷 . “Notoriously low on cash 💰 we buy a couple of second hand push bikes and with just 300 quid each ,we point the pushbikes south and roll into a new life .This episode does have some backstory in it ,to give the listener an insight into how’s these kids were shaped into who they were by the time they were 19 .The end of this podcast also has Dans message . A decent sounding chap who left me a message of encouragement on my podcast ,asking, if i would do the story about riding to France and Spain 🇪🇸 and making many a mistake along the way 😎 so here it is . I hope you enjoy it and if you do ,please record a message for me and I’ll put you in my next episode .And finally “this one’s for you Dicky 😎” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Got a job working for a Swedish lady at the Blue Oyster Bar surrounded by many interesting characters. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

This Episode paints a lil picture of where the journey began ,upstairs above a laundrette , and the need to find adventure from an early age . It touches on the rather rustic childhood I had in a rural town before moving closer to the bigger cities and the characters I encountered. From kids knocking me out with bricks to thugs trying to beat me ,to male strippers and a farmer called red vest . It’s probably easier just to listen . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Back at the Blue Oyster Bar Trying to get enough cash to leave Tonga 🇹🇴 while avoiding gold diggers and getting married .Lil Frank burns his bridge with Naomi .This is the last of the book 📕 chapters . Gonna finish my book next and if I get enough positive feedback do another podcast of 7 months hitching and walking back through SE Asia . Just gotta make sense of my old journals and sort the gems from the grime . Let me know if you’re keen to hear more yarns 😎 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

I sail out the outer islands where I meet Lavasi who takes me across stone fish infested reef to a place I can pretend I’m Robinson Cruiso . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Limboing my way out of the kiwi plantation for a chance to sail away to Tonga with an Angry Pirate and a Cherokee Indian Surfer from Cali. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Crossed the pacific in a shinny silver bullet. Bought a bike off a bloke at the Flying Hedgehog 🦔 for 150 kiwi dollars ... Tied my backpack on the back rack and headed south . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Working two jobs… amongst drug and alcohol dependent tenants during the day and cocaine addicted customers and staff at night . Then a dude rocks up smoking bongs from dawn til dusk and drags Deano into the darkness. Justin and me take sanctuary in the ocean swells at maroubra . A local Bra boy hurts Jay . Amongst all this my old man shows up ⬆️ 😎 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Finding Bri living in “The Cross (Red Light District ) thick in the clan with a gang of Scottish blokes bent on causing mayhem when ever they could .And a Jean-Claude Van Damme wanna be gets jiggy with a big knife 🔪. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Still in Byron hunting down Gold Tops and watching the sharks follow the surfers . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Back to Perth with a wad full of splodoonies . Searching out my old mate Bri . But he’s already heading east toward a rising sun ☀️ so I take off after him with a couple of naked blokes . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Subjected to a daily rattle ,getting verbal and actual shit thrown at me .I strive to pull my weight and get my own back on the shearer’s .Warning this podcast has some crude shearer’s humour which I’ve left in to project the true reality of life in the sheds . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Hitching South away from the tropical paradise. Bri and me wander different paths in the search for work.I arrive at a shearing town out in the salt lakes . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Bri and Me hitch into Broome in search of work. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

As we slice through the India ocean we meet up with Ant Muffy and The Funky Turtle . We sail together toward Broome.Danger is always close by .We tread with trepidation past croc slides and box jelly fish . Ant loses a prized possession and Muffy finds treasure after a close call with a cliff. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Sailing back out into the Kimberley and down the coast …under watchful eyes. Keywords: Red eyes in the dark,what was that noise ? Chuck a coconut ! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

This is a dedication to a beautiful person Jose ….See you in the next life ! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Trying to survive Darwin the troppo troops and a dark demon .We roll down the hill to Dinah beach yacht club for a chance to escape. 😎 key words I wish I could fly ,Joseph Bonaparte gulf , SeaPlane Bay, big waves 🌊 . Saving your skin with a sextant . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Finally Bri and Me reach the “pot of gold” at the end of our rainbow . The pot of gold also has six meter long crocodiles,box jelly fish and big sharks ..but the streets are even more dangerous.Key words :Troppo .drunk arseholes, near death experiences,running for your life. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message

Could have died but ended up saving a life in this one ( with the help of a legend Balinese dude with two surf boards)Bri and me reach Kuta Bali ,the young Australians Ibiza .. gritty seedy and sporadically dangerous . Corruption .. Drugs .. and close shaves before being summoned to help a drowning man . There’s a bit of time travel to give more depth to Bali and it’s underworld .ps if someone hands you a pill in a pitch black nightclub don’t take it . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message