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The Proposition
THE premise is simple: Allow die roles to determine the majority of decisions faced while motorbiking throughout the world with a limited budget for an entire year. It’s 365 days of tempting fate, enticing serendipity and letting go of free will – if such things exist at all.
October 17, 2017
They day was filled with wildlife I'd only before seen on the television or copies of National Geographic. Photo: Isaac Stone Simonelli
IT'S AFTER midnight. Dice Travels, as a one year project, is done. Lying on the soft bed in a riverside luxury tent at Intrepid, insid...
October 17, 2017
Trying to keep my cool when the realization hits me. Video: Isaac Stone Simonelli
A NAUSEOUSNESS fills me as a three-wheeled tuk-tuk trots its way from Kilifi to Mombasa Airport: did I fail the dice? That's what's eating me up inside, spinning my stomach like it's on it...
October 16, 2017
She might have spent as much time catching a ride as she did giving it, but all is fair in motorcycles and love. Photo: Isaac Stone Simonelli
THE bus rolls into Mombasa well after first light. It's been raining; large puddles fill sections of the streets in the bustling...
October 16, 2017
Out of cash, out of cushion, and out of resilience, I hope that Wicky's fixed Rafiki for good now. Photo: Isaac Stone Simonelli
IT'S my third whiskey in the last hour. I have a deeply seeded belief that if you ever say “I need a drink” you shouldn't be having a drink.
Bu...
October 16, 2017
Jesus, Rafiki is a lazy-ass motorcycle. Photo: Isaac Stone Simonelli
IT'S HARD to believe. Truly hard to believe. Yet here I am, on the side of some road in Kenya with a broken motorcycle.
This morning, I wake up before Linda, turning the alarm clock off so it doesn't wa...
October 15, 2017
So Linda and I have ourselves a lovely little picnic on Lake Naivasha to the sounds of hippos laughing. Photo: Isaac Stone Simonelli
Daily Updates are not edited and function more as daily journal entries – so if the plot seems to be all over the place or missing entir...
October 12, 2017
Hard to say no to a baby hippo. Photo: Isaac Stone Simonelli
Daily Updates are not edited and function more as daily journal entries – so if the plot seems to be all over the place or missing entirely and the tenses changes faster than a kaleidoscope, well, that's just...
October 11, 2017
This big fella was acting very strange by spending all day in the muck, instead of finding cooler living in the water during the heat of the day. Photo: Isaac Stone Simonelli
Daily Updates are not edited and function more as daily journal entries – so if the plot seems...
October 7, 2017
Just when you thought things might be getting better for poor Rafiki. Photo: Isaac Stone Simonelli
Daily Updates are not edited and function more as daily journal entries – so if the plot seems to be all over the place or missing entirely and the tenses changes faster...
October 7, 2017
The question is whether or not the mechanic is competent enough to put it all back together. Photos: Isaac Stone Simonelli
Daily Updates are not edited and function more as daily journal entries – so if the plot seems to be all over the place or missing entirely and the...
