Project Hitchhiker | travels, stories and adventures in lifestyle design
welcome to my blog
Project Hitchhiker is the online creative outlet of Mike H.
Mike’s adventures have taken him across 3 continents, including driving a motorcycle for 6 months across Southeast Asia, hitchhiking across Canada and Japan, and walking 1000 miles along the coastline of Nova Scotia.
Mike’s passions are music, travel and motorcycles (in that order).
Mike’s dislikes include writing about himself in the third person.
This site is a collection of his travels, stories and adventures in lifestyle design.
I’m a shameless promoter, I know. But I need to take this time to point out a few friends that are accomplishing awesome things right now.
Firstly, there’s my buddy Dave Lowe over in Vietnam who released his first travel novel, the hilarious Sandwiches Should Never Taste Like Cow Crap. I read a bunch of the advance chapters when he was editing it and I laughed my ass off.
This one is of Kim and I on our $300 motorbike in Southern Vietnam, off-roading, crossing a river and checking out some waterfalls… just before we got arrested and detained for the better part of three days (story coming soon).
The dirt roads that we drove on for the first week of our trip were a little hairy at times. We crashed twice — once while trying to dodge a rogue cow and another time trying to slowly cross a wooden bridge. The funny part was that Kim actually got the crashes on video (she used to take a lot of videos while we drove — something about being bored because she couldn’t see around my big helmet).
I’m going to post the crash videos (they’re pretty hilarious) as soon as Kim emails them to me.
(UPDATE: The videos were on Kim’s laptop, which got stolen…)
Oh yeah, and that picture of Kim driving: She’s faking it. I didn’t let her actually drive the bike until much later on in the trip…
