Category Archives: Country

Overland motorcycle travel

Wild Camping In Slovakia: The Night Of The Horny Cow

Rather than let the blog go dormant while we wait out Berlin’s long winter we decided to move to Unleash some of our posts from our old blog. When Emma-Justine sleeps Ill move the entire lot over. Until then enjoy …
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A Bike Ride Through China: Part Two

Part 2 where we rejoin Leonie, who joined Patrick for part of his first RTW motorcycle trip, and while in China spontaneously decided to buy a bike and ride by herself 300 kms from Shanhaiguan to Beijing. Part one you …
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A Bike Ride Through China: Part One

Video of the Mongolia/China slide show Patrick did for a presentation at a Horizon’s Unlimited travelers meeting on his trip around the world: This post (and it’s follow up) is taken from the chapter on China from the English translation …
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English Translation Of Fernweh: A Trans Continental Motorcycle Adventure Is Out!

Cover: Fernweh a trans continental motorcycle adventure

As some people already know, Patrick wrote a book about his first around the world motorcycle trip that took place in 2004 and 2005. And finally, the English version; Fernweh: A Trans Continental Motorcycle Adventure is available on Amazon and …
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Back From Istanbul, Land Of Yummy Food, Bond & Bikes

Sorry for the long absence and lack of posts. There are many excuses but the real reason is that I was traveling for the past month with my parents. There was a decided lack of any motorcycles sadly, but the …
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Summer is over in Newfoundland

Today I looked at the weather forecast. It looked like most days lately. Welcome to Newfoundlands summer! Sherrie’s dad is obsessed with the sun and hot, dry weather. At night he sneaks into the kitchen and pops up the laptop …
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Fjords, Geyser, Iceberg and bloody feet: the Newfoundland Eastcoast Trail

Newfoundland iceberg on the east coast trail

Newfoundland has a beautiful coastline with fjords, clear water, sea birds, eagles, moose, flowers, icebergs and even geysers. The best part is that if there is sunshine and no storm raging outside, you can actually see all of that. A …
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A Newfoundland bay party: Heartattack, Lobster and Rum

Janine decided to show me real life in the bay and invited us to her cousins cabin party in Cupids. I almost didn’t make it there since my life was at stake in the liquor store. Not because of alcohol …
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Maps of Iceland

Once in a while we get questions about the route we took through Iceland, especially the interior. Voilà, here they are. The maps are taken from Sherries ebook: Iceland – a stormy motorcycle adventure.
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A German Tourist in Newfoundland

Sherrie dragged me around the whole world to get to Newfoundland, her storm blown home in the North Atlantic. The good news is: We made it.
Then the hard part was to start: Sherrie decided I needed to experience the Newfie way. I became very scared.
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