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Photo by Andy Miller, UK, Taking a rest, Jokulsarlon, Iceland

I haven't been everywhere...
but it's on my list!


Photo by Andy Miller, UK,
Taking a rest,
Jokulsarlon, Iceland



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Smile A neverending story on Falkor our GS800

Dear HU community,

We hope you are doing great? We are Nathalia and Vincent, a 34 years old Swiss couple traveling 2up on Falkor our BMW GS800. We are on the road since 16 months and travel slowly doing service exchanges with people we meet on the road.

Today we celebrate 500 days of nomadism and we are back in Switzerland, but not for long. Our plan is now to update our materials and end of January to ride our bike to ASIA without time limit. Our first goal will be to reach India where we lived in 2014 and another goal would be to reach Indonesia.

For the past 16 months, we've been creating videos and pictures that we share here :

INSTA : www.instagram.com/takemeeverywhere
YOUTUBE : www.youtube.com/vincentweil (video in french with subtitles in english, spannish, italien, etc.)
POLARSTEPS : www.polarsteps.com/takemeeverywhere

Our bike is called Falkor in reference of the lucky dragon from the Neverending Story movie from 1984. Has you can see in this short video, we like to fly with our bike.

Regarding this first 16 months of travel, here are some stats :

- 9 COUNTRIES (Switzerland, France, Andorra, Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, Morocco, Italy, San Marino)
- 23’000 KM
- TEMPERATURE MIN. -3°C
- TEMPERATURE MAX. +52,5°C
- MAX. KM PER DAY : 427,7KM
- MAX. RIDING TIME : 6H08

We would be happy to exchange with you here or on our social media ✌️Wish you all the very best ✨

Vincent, Nathalia & Falkor
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Welcome to Horizons Unlimited Nathalia and Vincent!
You can also post your story here on HU, and of course ask for help if you need it. Spend a little time checking out the me4nus above - there's a lot more here on HU than just the HUBB.
We look forward to hearing more about your travels!
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Hi Grant, thank you very much for your message. We will have a look at your website that we know from years ago but never had the chance to discover closer. Wish you all the very best.
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For our one year on the road we posted a little edit of 6mn to talk about how our nomadic biking life change us. There is subtitles in many many language. Feel free to have a look :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5sVbw0USsk

Wish you all a beautiful weekend.
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