(Dangerous )Tales from the UTE (pick up truck)lonely planet.bike packing, near death experiences,dangerous travel ,grassroots-travel, bicycle, cycle touring ,hitchhiking,sailing,illegal border crossing,drugs,guns, corruption, comedy,humour,philosophy, inspiration.India,Thailand ,Malaysia,Indonesia,Australia.sheep farms,fruit picking ,washing dishes ,knives ,opium, heroin, bandits,Khun Sa ,
66 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago -Two blokes from Yorkshire ,England 1995 . Cycle into a 40degree New Delhi day ,east toward Kathmandu,Nepal and South East Asia ,Illegal border crossings, near death by :thugs ,knife bandits ,car ,cyclones and crocodile. After bicycles stolen , hitching ,walking and sailing . Busting guts on a sheep station .No Bullshit , No hype ,just how things really happened.And hopefully inspiring to potential travellers stuck in a rut doing the same same and turning to drink and worse at the weekends to compensate. Although dark and dangerous in places ,it’s told with Comedic ,philosophical undertones.
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2.The Early Years (and how I survived) life in a northern town
February 10, 2024 05:03 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBThis Episode paints a lil picture of where the journey began ,upstairs above a laundrette , and the need to find adventure from an early age . It touches on the rather rustic childhood I had in a rural town before moving closer to the bigger cities and the characters I encountered. From kids knocking me out with bricks to thugs trying to beat me ,to male strippers and a farmer called red vest . It’s probably easier just to listen . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.co...
31.Escaping Paradise 🌴 🇹🇴
December 10, 2023 00:40 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBBack at the Blue Oyster Bar Trying to get enough cash to leave Tonga 🇹🇴 while avoiding gold diggers and getting married .Lil Frank burns his bridge with Naomi .This is the last of the book 📕 chapters . Gonna finish my book next and if I get enough positive feedback do another podcast of 7 months hitching and walking back through SE Asia . Just gotta make sense of my old journals and sort the gems from the grime . Let me know if you’re keen to hear more yarns 😎 --- Send in a voice message: ...
31.Escaping Paradise
December 10, 2023 00:40 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBBack at the Blue Oyster Bar Trying to get enough cash to leave Tonga 🇹🇴 while avoiding gold diggers and getting married Lil Frank burns his bridge with Naomi .This is the last of the book 📕 chapters . Gonna finish my book next and if I get enough positive feedback do another podcast of 7 months hitching and walking back through SE Asia . Just gotta make sense of my old journals and sort the gems from the grime . Let me know if you need any to hear more 😎😎😎 --- Send in a voice message: http...
30.Kava, Lava,Feki & Coconuts 🌴 🇹🇴
December 03, 2023 07:48 - 56 minutes - 52.3 MBI sail out the outer islands where I meet Lavasi who takes me across stone fish infested reef to a place I can pretend I’m Robinson Cruiso . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
30.Kava, Lava,Feki & Coconuts 🌴
December 03, 2023 07:48 - 56 minutes - 52.3 MBI sail out the outer islands where I meet Lavasi who takes me across stone fish infested reef to a place I can pretend I’m Robinson Cruiso . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
29.Little Franko and the Blue Oyster Bar
November 24, 2023 07:11 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBGot a job working for a Swedish lady at the Blue Oyster Bar surrounded by many interesting characters. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
29.Little Franko and the Blue Oyster Bar 🇹🇴
November 24, 2023 07:11 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBGot a job working for a Swedish lady at the Blue Oyster Bar surrounded by many interesting characters. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
28.Shipwrecks ,Black Tip Sharks and Angry Pirates 🏴☠️ 🇹🇴
November 16, 2023 08:58 - 55 minutes - 51.4 MBLimboing my way out of the kiwi plantation for a chance to sail away to Tonga with an Angry Pirate and a Cherokee Indian Surfer from Cali. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
28.Shipwrecks ,Sharks and Angry Pirates 🏴☠️ 🇹🇴
November 16, 2023 08:58 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBLimboing my way out of the kiwi plantation for a chance to sail away to Tonga with an Angry Pirate and a Cherokee Indian Surfer from Cali. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
27.Aotearoa. Land of The Long White Cloud
November 10, 2023 03:48 - 53 minutes - 49.6 MBCrossed the pacific in a shinny silver bullet. Bought a bike off a bloke at the Flying Hedgehog 🦔 for 150 kiwi dollars ... Tied my backpack on the back rack and headed south . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
26.Hot Ice-Cream, Coke Dealers and Bra Boys .
November 03, 2023 06:34 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBWorking two jobs… amongst drug and alcohol dependent tenants during the day and cocaine addicted customers and staff at night . Then a dude rocks up smoking bongs from dawn til dusk and drags Deano into the darkness. Justin and me take sanctuary in the ocean swells at maroubra . A local Bra boy hurts Jay . Amongst all this my old man shows up ⬆️ 😎 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
25.Red Lights, Fights and DJs
October 29, 2023 05:39 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBFinding Bri living in “The Cross (Red Light District ) thick in the clan with a gang of Scottish blokes bent on causing mayhem when ever they could .And a Jean-Claude Van Damme wanna be gets jiggy with a big knife 🔪. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
24.Gold Tops And Bronze Whalers
October 22, 2023 11:02 - 35 minutes - 33 MBStill in Byron hunting down Gold Tops and watching the sharks follow the surfers . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
23.Byron Bay and Grimarse the cockney soul surfer .
October 20, 2023 13:09 - 53 minutes - 49.6 MBBack to Perth with a wad full of splodoonies . Searching out my old mate Bri . But he’s already heading east toward a rising sun ☀️ so I take off after him with a couple of naked blokes . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
22.Glitchy Sheep and Mallee Roots 🐑 🦘
October 13, 2023 12:20 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBSubjected to a daily rattle ,getting verbal and actual shit thrown at me .I strive to pull my weight and get my own back on the shearer’s .Warning this podcast has some crude shearer’s humour which I’ve left in to project the true reality of life in the sheds . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
21.Cucumbers Shoplifters and Sheep Shearer’s
October 12, 2023 04:05 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBHitching South away from the tropical paradise. Away from the crocs too ,so not all bad . Bri and me wander different paths in the search for work, negotiating the opportunist farmers and desperate workers. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
21.Sheep Shearer’s and Shoplifters
October 12, 2023 04:05 - 44 minutes - 41.4 MBHitching South away from the tropical paradise. Bri and me wander different paths in the search for work.I arrive at a shearing town out in the salt lakes . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
20.Larry Seven Kids & Bodan 🇦🇺
October 06, 2023 05:05 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBBri and Me hitch into Broome in search of work. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
20.Larry Seven Kids & Bodan🐎
October 06, 2023 05:05 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBBri and Me hitch into Broome in search of work. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
19.Ant Muffy and the Funky Turtle 🐢
October 03, 2023 10:17 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBAs we slice through the India ocean we meet up with Ant Muffy and The Funky Turtle . We sail together toward Broome.Danger is always close by .We tread with trepidation past croc slides and box jelly fish . Ant loses a prized possession and Muffy finds treasure after a close call with a cliff. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
18.Crocodiles 🐊
September 28, 2023 01:45 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBSailing back out into the Kimberley and down the coast …under watchful eyes. Keywords: Red eyes in the dark,what was that noise ? Chuck a coconut ! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
17.Jose
September 28, 2023 01:42 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBThis is a dedication to a beautiful person Jose ….See you in the next life ! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
17.Crocodiles 🐊
September 27, 2023 03:55 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBSailing back out into the Kimberley and down the coast …under watchful eyes. Keywords: Red eyes in the dark,what was that noise ? Chuck a coconut ! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
16.Escaping Darwin 🇦🇺 and the Demons
September 21, 2023 11:30 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBTrying to survive Darwin the troppo troops and a dark demon .We roll down the hill to Dinah beach yacht club for a chance to escape. 😎 key words I wish I could fly ,Joseph Bonaparte gulf , SeaPlane Bay, big waves 🌊 . Saving your skin with a sextant . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
15.Surviving Darwin Australia 🇦🇺 (and avoiding a Darwin Award) the second close call in a week.
September 15, 2023 09:54 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBFinally Bri and Me reach the “pot of gold” at the end of our rainbow . The pot of gold also has six meter long crocodiles,box jelly fish and big sharks ..but the streets are even more dangerous.Key words :Troppo .drunk arseholes, near death experiences,running for your life. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
14. Bali Indonesia 🇮🇩 Doppelgängers broken boards and broken minds.
September 10, 2023 05:59 - 48 minutes - 44.9 MBCould have died but ended up saving a life in this one ( with the help of a legend Balinese dude with two surf boards)Bri and me reach Kuta Bali ,the young Australians Ibiza .. gritty seedy and sporadically dangerous . Corruption .. Drugs .. and close shaves before being summoned to help a drowning man . There’s a bit of time travel to give more depth to Bali and it’s underworld .ps if someone hands you a pill in a pitch black nightclub don’t take it . --- Send in a voice message: https://...
14. Bali Indonesia 🇮🇩 Last stop before Darwin Australia 🇦🇺
September 10, 2023 05:59 - 48 minutes - 44.9 MBCould have died but ended up saving a life in this one ( with the help of a legend Balinese dude with two surf boards)Bri and me reach Kuta Bali ,the young Australians Ibiza .. gritty seedy and sporadically dangerous . Corruption .. Drugs .. and close shaves before being summoned to help a drowning man . There’s a bit of time travel to give more depth to Bali and it’s underworld .ps if someone hands you a pill in a pitch black nightclub don’t take it . --- Send in a voice message: https://...
Leaving Indo . Pirates Bandits and Wardrobes
September 03, 2023 05:40 - 40 minutes - 37.8 MBAfter a jungle kip stop with Acmed the wardrobe guru and Mo Moon Kopi lady Bri and Me crest the final hill and catch a ferry across the Sunda Straights to Java and Jakarta . Unfortunately we come across a few unwanted blades along the way . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
13.Sumatra 🇮🇩 Part 3 Pirates Bandits and Wardrobes
September 03, 2023 05:40 - 40 minutes - 37.8 MBAfter a jungle kip stop with Acmed the wardrobe guru and Mo Moon Kopi lady Bri and Me crest the final hill and catch a ferry across the Sunda Straights to Java and Jakarta . Unfortunately we come across a few unwanted blades along the way . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
Sumatra 🇮🇩 Part 2
August 26, 2023 04:24 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBNavigating the volcanic landscape to the west coast of Sumatra .Hard as nails monkeys.smugglers broken buses . magic mush rooms and Mr BoomBoom ? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
12.Sumatra 🇮🇩 Part 2 smugglers magic mushrooms and the monkey boss.
August 26, 2023 04:24 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBNavigating the volcanic landscape to the west coast of Sumatra .Hard as nails monkeys.smugglers broken buses . magic mush rooms and Mr BoomBoom ? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
12.Sumatra 🇮🇩 Part 2 Smugglers , Fun-guy and the monkey boss.
August 26, 2023 04:24 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBNavigating the volcanic landscape to the west coast of Sumatra .Hard as nails monkeys.smugglers broken buses . magic mush rooms and Mr BoomBoom ? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
11.Sumatra 🇮🇩 Part 1 Jungle whacking bombs and bemos 🦧
August 26, 2023 04:24 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBOtangutans 🦧 Bemo’s Bombs 💣 and big bloody hills . Detours through dense jungle..Volcanoes and Gigolos . The first part of our Indonesian adventure as we gun toward Australia 🇦🇺 listen to the end for the Bri interview 😎 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
11.Sumatra 🇮🇩 Part 1 bikepacking jungle whacking bombs and bemos 🦧
August 26, 2023 04:24 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBOtangutans 🦧 Bemo’s Bombs 💣 and big bloody hills . Detours through dense jungle..Volcanoes and Gigolos . The first part of our Indonesian adventure as we gun toward Australia 🇦🇺 listen to the end for the Bri interview 😎 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
Sumatra ..Indonesia bikepacking jungle whacking 🦧
August 26, 2023 04:24 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBOtangutans 🦧 Bemo’s Bombs 💣 and big bloody hills . Detours through dense jungle..Volcanoes and Gigolos . The first part of our Indonesian adventure as we gun toward Australia 🇦🇺 listen to the end for the Bri interview 😎 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
Malaysia 🇲🇾 to Singapore 🇸🇬 bike and condom packing .
August 26, 2023 04:22 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBHeading down the Malaysian peninsula. Skint and kipping on plastic wrapped beaches and in a very cheap hotel with an unusual bar . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
10.Malaysia 🇲🇾 to Singapore bike and condom packing .
August 26, 2023 04:22 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBHeading down the Malaysian peninsula. Skint and kipping on plastic wrapped beaches and in a very cheap hotel with an unusual bar . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
Extra Zing version (PT 2)Thailand Chiang Mai to Hat Yai .
August 26, 2023 04:22 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBWith cash and time against us Bri and me decide to hitch back to Bangkok and ride to Malaysia from there . Kipping in monasteries and on the floor in the back of a friendly shop keepers gaff . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
9.Thailand 🇹🇭 Part 2 (Extra Zing version in two parts ) Chiang Mai to Hat Yai .
August 26, 2023 04:22 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBWith cash and time against us Bri and me decide to hitch back to Bangkok and ride to Malaysia from there . Kipping in monasteries and on the floor in the back of a friendly shop keepers gaff . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
8.Thailand 🇹🇭 Part 1(Extra Zing version in two parts )Golden Triangle .
August 26, 2023 04:21 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBDecided to retell the Thailand episode with more ZING and in two parts .If you like this more than the sleepier version. Would love to hear some feed back . Just write it on the back of a $100 note and mail it too …. Rich Morris East Coast Australia 🇦🇺 or email [email protected] subject “Tales from the Ute” 😎 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
Extra Zing version (PT 1 )Golden Triangle .Thailand
August 26, 2023 04:21 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBDecided to retell the Thailand episode with more ZING and in two parts .If you like this more than the sleepier version. Would love to hear some feed back . Just write it on the back of a $100 note and mail it too …. Rich Morris East Coast Australia 🇦🇺 or email [email protected] subject “Tales from the Ute” 😎 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
7.Thailand 🇹🇭 Part 2 original version Golden Triangle ,drug cartels ,illegal border crossings
August 26, 2023 04:21 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MBAfter a drunken night with Niyom (The Thai policeman ) and his work mates .Bri and me continue along the Gulf of Thailand 🇹🇭 toward the border with Cambodia 🇰🇭. Time and money is filtering away at this point.We decide to try and hitch with our bikes North to the border with Myanmar 1200kms away , in the heart of the Golden Triangle . At this time ,1995 ,Drug Baron Khun Sa was still active . Supplying 25% of the worlds Heroin. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/...
Not so Zing original version Golden Triangle . Thailand . Bikepacking and hitchhiking
August 26, 2023 04:21 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MBAfter a drunken night with Niyom (The Thai policeman ) and his work mates .Bri and me continue along the Gulf of Thailand 🇹🇭 toward the border with Cambodia 🇰🇭. Time and money is filtering away at this point.We decide to try and hitch with our bikes North to the border with Myanmar 1200kms away , in the heart of the Golden Triangle . At this time ,1995 ,Drug Baron Khun Sa was still active . Supplying 25% of the worlds Heroin. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/...
Thai Bribes Bikepacking and brawling
August 26, 2023 04:20 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBThis episode follows Bri and me circumnavigating the Gulf of Thailand heading in the direction of Cambodia . We stop in at Pattaya until we realise it’s one big brothel And head further south in search of paradise at Ko Samet .Bris holy water saves his arse and I end up getting a beating . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
6.Thailand 🇹🇭 Part 1 Thai Bribes Bikepacking and brawling
August 26, 2023 04:20 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBThis episode follows Bri and me circumnavigating the Gulf of Thailand heading in the direction of Cambodia . We stop in at Pattaya until we realise it’s one big brothel And head further south in search of paradise at Ko Samet .Bris holy water saves his arse and I end up getting a beating . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-morris1/message
Nepal to Calcutta (Kolkata) Accidental border crossing .Bikepacking
August 26, 2023 04:16 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBThis Episode starts following the cardboard map drawn by a local as Bri and me ride along the Terai (grass lands and swamps ) til we find a break in the Himalayan mountains . Slowly we weave our way up the river valleys ,avoiding the massive drops offs and washouts . We sleep rough in Tiger territory,meet a friendly Gurkha, and hobble into Kathmandu with amoebic dysentery. Only to witness a blood bath in the streets .15 lost kilos later we are back in India 🇮🇳. 200kms from Calcutta with no mo...
5.Nepal 🇳🇵 to Calcutta 🇮🇳 (Kolkata) Accidental border crossing .
August 26, 2023 04:16 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBBri and me follow a hand drawn map and ride along the Terai (grass lands and swamps ) til we find a break in the Himalayan mountains . Slowly we weave our way up the river valleys ,avoiding the massive drops offs and washouts . We sleep rough in Tiger territory,meet a friendly Gurkha, and hobble into Kathmandu.. no money a bunch of bananas and a loaf of bread we head for kolkata Thanks for the music Arnav Srivastav 😎 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/r...
5.Nepal to Calcutta (Kolkata) Accidental border crossing .Bikepacking
August 26, 2023 04:16 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBThis Episode starts following the cardboard map drawn by a local as Bri and me ride along the Terai (grass lands and swamps ) til we find a break in the Himalayan mountains . Slowly we weave our way up the river valleys ,avoiding the massive drops offs and washouts . We sleep rough in Tiger territory,meet a friendly Gurkha, and hobble into Kathmandu with amoebic dysentery. Only to witness a blood bath in the streets .15 lost kilos later we are back in India 🇮🇳. 200kms from Calcutta with no mo...
4.(Part 2)Yorkshire Halifax to Nepali Border.
August 26, 2023 03:52 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBHave split this episode in two more bite sized chunks . Flashed up the intro a bit but apart from that it’s the same audio as before .This Episode is the real start of the journey and hopefully inspiration to anyone considering stepping off the 'merry go round' for a bit . The sudden inspiration to leave and the challenge of finding a committed travelling buddy(aka Brian) amongst the eight pint heroes who were all set to go until they woke up the next morning. Escaping the drunken nights in H...
EP2 (Part 2)Yorkshire Halifax to Nepali Border.
August 26, 2023 03:52 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBHave split this episode in two more bite sized chunks . Flashed up the intro a bit but apart from that it’s the same audio as before .This Episode is the real start of the journey and hopefully inspiration to anyone considering stepping off the 'merry go round' for a bit . The sudden inspiration to leave and the challenge of finding a committed travelling buddy(aka Brian) amongst the eight pint heroes who were all set to go until they woke up the next morning. Escaping the drunken nights in H...