Over the stream into woods,
Over the hill into the village,
I travelled yesterday and I will today also;
My road is forever new.
Yun Dong-ju (윤동주)
Hello, I’m Warren, writer and photographer of Motorcycle Paradise, a totally free and independent website about motorcycle travel. There is no sponsored content here. I’m not selling anything. I finance all my rides and gear myself.
I am not skilled as a writer so all I can offer you is honest accounts of my real experiences. These will probably have poor grammar however will be totally free of marketing spin with no requests to like and subscribe which is rare in this world of algorithm driven content from YouTubers.
I started Motorcycle Paradise blog in 2006, however it’s roots go back to 1995. It was originally a “home page” (as personal web sites were once called) when I first started using the internet. It never became much until I rebooted it on Google’s Blogger platform ten years later. Now it’s a WordPress site with 40GB of my motorcycle travels.
The name of the blog comes from the region I used to ride most Sundays; Northern Rivers, Australia. This area was once described as a ‘paradise for motorcycles’ by one of Australia’s leading motorcycle writers (The Bear) and that description stuck in my head.
The blog grew considerably after I quit my career in 2013 to ride my bucket list, choosing to measure success in life by my values, not the opinions of others. What was considered the dumbest thing I could do by my former colleagues turned out to be my best life choice. 2022 I was diagnosed with cancer. You never know how long you might have left to do what you dream about.
The good news is I had successful surgery and so far am in remission. I have resumed riding motorcycles and ticking off my riding bucket list and I will complete my bucket list by end of 2025 reaching 100 motorcycle tours posted to this blog.
I’m aware that most people are too lazy to read and prefer YouTube. However this blog only exists to please me – not to entertain others or earn money. It is my travel diary and I prefer to record my rides in written words and photos. I shot video for 10 years in the 90’s but never looked at any of it ever again and lament not having many photos of that decade now to reflect back on.
Motorcycle Paradise blog is designed to be viewed on a PC. I try to deliver a reasonable mobile device version but it is a photographic site after all not a tiktok video thus is always going to be optimised for and look best on a large screen.
Thanks for visiting.
