Travel

My main interests as a traveller are very close to home - or out in the Wild West - I am now a regular travel writer for American Cowboy magazine (www.cowboy.com) Recently, I have concentrated on elemental experiences - I like to call them adventures. Sleeping rough in the woods; walking at dead of night; trawling a canoe through the undergrowth in search of the source of the Derwent.

Further afield, I have a lifelong interest in the American West. I have lived in and written about New Mexico, and travelled widely on the Great Plains. In 1994 I borrowed a bicycle in Lincoln, Nebraska and cycled 630 miles across the state in a September heatwave. In 2001 I crossed the Plains from south to north, following the 100th Meridian from the Mexican border to the Canadian line. In 2004 I travelled the entire Lewis & Clark Trail from St Louis to the Pacific shore. This year I explored the wilds of Nevada, the last of the seventeen western states I had yet to visit

I have written travel pieces for a number of newspapers: The Independent, Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, and Yorkshire Post. My work has also appeared in the Times Higher, Country Walking, Bike Culture and Traveller.

You can download these examples in pdf format:

So When is a Town not a Town?

First Class Carriage

Walking at Night

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