A Bike Ride Through China: Part Two

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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

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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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Overland Motorcycle Adventurer Madeleine Velazquez (aka – Missrider)

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Madeleine Velazquez (aka – Missrider) describes herself as adventurous, free spirited, and outgoing, and as you read her interview you understand why! She has ridden her 2009 Triumph Bonneville in 9 countries and in 3 short New England summer seasons, …
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English Translation Of Fernweh: A Trans Continental Motorcycle Adventure Is Out!

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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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Overland Women Riders: Rachel Balm

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Rachel describes herself as “Determined, Tenacious (read Stubborn!), “A Tryer”” and someone who is “pretty crap at getting up early, knowing how to fix a bike, or knowing which direction I’m going in.” Despite this, (or maybe because of it!) …
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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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Overland Rider Chloe Granger: From The Jungles of Cambodia To Riding The Americas

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Before I start with Chloe’s interview I want to post the last thing she wrote, which I believe 100% and wish the whole world followed it. If you do nothing else but read this paragraph and check out some of …
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SmashwordsAccess for Android problems with certificate

Smashwords Certificate problem on Android

For a couple of days now we have been getting reports from our users that they can’t use SmashwordsAccess anymore, it says “Not trusted server certificate“. What happened? SmashwordsAccess uses an encrypted connection (SSL) to talk to the Smashwords site, …
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Sjack The World Independent Film Out: Moral Of The Story Live Your Dreams!

Anyone who has ever dreamed of overland motorcycle travel probably saw Sjaak Lucassen‘s  around the world video. Now you can enjoy it professionally cut with various interviews in his new documentary Sjaak The World. What I love about the video …
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Our Books Are On Sale On Smashwords

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Our books are on sale over on the Smashwords website until 11:59 pm (Pacific time), July 31st. All our books are half off with the code SSW50 except for the packlist. Type in SSW50 for the packlist and you get …
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