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, inside the Masai Mara conservatory, a soft sadness and loneliness settles over my restlessness.
It was a good day. Our safari drive came across a mama cheetah and four...
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 its own carnival ride. Watching the wet landscape slip by beneath the gray clouds threatening more rain the realization blindsided me. Did I really make it this fa...
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 coastal town.
We stop to let off one group of people and then another as we crawl farther into the city. I'm not sure, but it seems most likely that Rafiki and I...
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.
But, I need a drink.
“Baby, I'm sorry cause there's nothing I can say,” Liz says in her soft southern accent as we sit on the brightly colored covers of her couch i...
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 wake her. She's been struggling to sleep well. Now that she's peacefully asleep in her bed, it doesn't seem right to wake her.
There's a lovely, deep darkness to th...
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 the way it is.
UP BEFORE the sun crests the mountains to the east of Lake Naivasha, Linda pulls on my gray hoodie before taking my hand and heading down to the wa...
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 to be all over the place or missing entirely and the tenses changes faster than a kaleidoscope, well, that's just the way it is.
A HIPPO laughs along the bank of...
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 than a kaleidoscope, well, that's just the way it is.
I SPRING off Rafiki in the gloom of the underground garage at Lovince's apartment. Quick to step away from t...
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 tenses changes faster than a kaleidoscope, well, that's just the way it is.
LINDA wakes up before me, finding her way to a deep, round-cushioned chair with her b...
October 6, 2017
I slept through much of the drive this morning. Photo: Isaac Stone Simoneli
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 the way it is.
FADING in and out of the waking world as the gray morning light filters through the windshield of a Kenya lorry, there is no pressur...
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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.