Thredbo River Stories


Alpine Way 2011

On a motorbike you are forced to be in the moment and notice what is around you. This brings everything: smells, colours, temperature, rain, pain, warmth etc into focus. Riding to work every day I noticed Autumn coming on with the crisper air, deeper shadows, the slowly receding hammer of the sun and got the itch, that now familiar seasonal desire for i...


Alpine Way

This entry is about a 4 day motorbike trip from 20th to 24th March 2010. The main idea was to ride a lot, spend some time alone away from the city and meditate every day. Mindfulness of breathing for half an hour in the morning and metta bahvna for half an hour in the evenings (I had been going mental with stress in the couple of weeks running up to thi...