Journey Insights
"A long time ago I heard Truman Capote describe his idea of a short story as, "a scrap of lightning that briefly illuminates the landscape." The image is so vivid that it has stuck with me over many decades, and I can't think of a better model for Journey Insights. Ideally they should be short and unpretentious. They should deal with a single event such as an incident, a meeting, a confrontation, a revelation, but within the telling there should be something that illuminates the landscape, and that landscape could be the local environment or culture, the journey of which it is part, or it could be the human condition. Some Insights may stray a long way from this prescription, but whatever it is it must be simple, honest and genuine, and to write something honest and genuine is already a triumph."
Ted Simon (2012)
Islamic Dress Etiquette
Sharing her experience of travelling through Iran by motorcycle, Danielle Murdoch offers a women's guide to dress etiquette in Islamic countries. View Insight
Somewhere Else Tomorrow
Daniel Rintz is trying to complete the documentary film about his life-changing journey from Germany to New Zealand. Find out more about this exciting project and how you can support it. View Insight
Far Away Hills
Merv and Sarah Colton put the concept of adventure into perspective as they travel through Argentina. View Insight
Life And All Its Lessons
After their Great Divide ride gets off to an inauspicious start, Sandy, Terry and Jack Borden discover how a change in perspective can rescue triumph from the jaws of defeat. View Insight
Did We Forget Something?
"...to be able to spend uninterrupted time together as a family, to show Jack the world beyond the usual, to meet the people you would never meet unless you take the road less travelled. That is why we're out there." View Insight
Riding The Fence Line
Exploring the border between Arizona and Mexico on horseback, Bob Clark finds himself unprepared for the "wall mentality" and questions the motivation for barrier construction. View Insight
Borderline Prescription
Bob Clark offers some perspective on what cross-border consumerism says about the state of the nation. View Insight
Francisco Coronado
The Huachuca Mountains have been a challenge to explorers and migrants alike for hundred of years. Bob Clark highlights the modern-day barriers facing would-be immigrants. View Insight
Not Easy Being Legal
Crossing into Mexico on the Jupiter Discovery Ride, Bob Clark experiences tight security at the border and learns about the reality of daily life for legal migrant workers. View Insight
Stranger In A Strange Land
In the first 'on-the-road' Journey Insight of the 2012 Jupiter Discovery Ride, Bob Clark reveals some of California's more surprising landscapes and the impact of water management on its immigrant population. View Insight
Chance To Share. Chance To See.
Sharing images of Tibetan and Uyghur families, Eleanor Moseman explains what drives her to explore remote and forbidden cultures by bicycle, and how the experience has changed her perspective. View Insight
The Road Not Taken
With some interesting historical context, Bob Clark scratches beneath the surface of immigration along the Arizona-Mexico border and discovers school censorship and an alarming death toll. View Insight
