Digby's Journal
Gasoline, Grit and the Great Escape
Field notes, reflections, and insights gathered over decades of exploring Asia’s backroads. Browse our motorcycle touring journal and see where the trail has taken us.
Laos is ‘contaminated’ by UXO (unexploded ordinance) which kills and maims people and renders land unusable. Laos accounts for more than half of all confirmed cluster sub-munition casualties in the world.
US Special Forces suffered a devastating defeat while attacking an NVA base deep inside Laos
South Vietnamese and US forces suffered a catastrophic defeat when they invaded Laos in order to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Some areas of the Ho Chi Minh Trail are completely riddled with bomb craters
The lagest rescue operation of downed USAF pilots happened on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
The Battle of Route Coloniale 4 was one of the most important of the First Indochina War. Here's what happened.
In 2019 Digby found the crash site of a USAF jet fighter that was shot down over Laos in 1968.