- Blog Stories
Over the past couple of years, Pete has documented his adventures and experiences with hundreds of blog posts on his adventure blog at trackpete.net.
You can review some of these adventures by starting at one of the links below and clicking "Newer Post" at the bottom left to go to the next post - and once you're done, browse around and read some of the other stories!
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Dal Baht, Riots, and the Himalayas A leisurely month long vacation in Nepal turns chaotic when Pete arrives on the first day of a Maoist enforced country-wide strike, banning not only all overland travel but preventing shops, restaurants, and stores from opening during the day through intimidation and violence. As things start to look better, acute mountain sickness strikes at nearly 18,000 feet in the Himalayas and everything changes... |
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Two thousand plus miles across India on a 7hp three wheeled auto-rickshaw designed for cheap city transportation - what could possibly go wrong? Flat tires without the proper tools are the least of it and the rickshaw slowly falls apart as the miles pile on. A zen acceptance of impending doom becomes critical to success as Pete picks up a co-driver named Tak and navigates the most insane traffic in the world, often at night with being run off the road to avoid death a common occurance. |
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Just a normal two week vacation, picking up a 7hp mototaxi in Peru and driving it a few thousand miles across the Andes mountains towards Paraguay... a month later a battered Pete finally bails out in the middle of Bolivia to escape back to his day job which doesn't seem the same anymore. Paperwork delays due to foreign governments, event organization failures, unscouted territory with roads that don't even appear on maps, and endless mechanical problems are just some of the minor issues encountered on this epic adventure across South America. |
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Good Old Fashioned Tourism: The Angkor Temples Some of the most amazing things in the world have been turned into cliches and are scorned by many for such - yet people often lose sight of the simple fact that these tourist hot spots are there for a reason. Pete starts his many months in Asia with a lifelong dream visit to the Angkor Temples in Cambodia, home to the famous Angkor Wat. See Siem Reap and the temples through his eyes as he struggles with disenchantment and tourist exploitation but still manages to find true beauty and wonder. |