Oz to Ice

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Ok so this is my first attempt at putting together a proper ride report and it probably wont be very good. The reason for that is that ive also got a blog going too (http://oztoice.wordpress.com/) and I have a feeling that maintain both a ride report and blog will end with me getting bored of sitting in front of a computer and give it up altogether.

So a brief introduction is in order I guess. My name is Rob, im from Wollongong in Australia and my bike is the venerable DR650 named Emily. Shes a 2003 model that I bought second hand from a guy in Melbourne that had only done 1800km before deciding to get rid of it. My first ride was straight back home, some 1000kms and the start of a beautiful long distance relationship. Since then shes not only took me to university and work from day to day, but has also taken me on a 4 week, 10 000km ride to Cape York and a 4 week 9000km ride through central Australia and across the French line through the Simpson desert.


a little digging ahead of me


theres a lot of sand dunes out there





Now im attempting to ride from Australia to Iceland. No set time frame, im working as I go when needed and the only limiting factor is my interest in the whole trip. So far its been 2.5 years since leaving home and counting. This isn’t a race around the world, nor visit as many countries as possible. Its just travelling, but with a bike, and mainly so that I don’t have to follow the crowd and get locked into a 30 year mortgage just yet.

Right now we are both in Malaysia, trapped here while sorting out some financial issues, but more about that later. Emily has 140 000km on the clock, 38 000 of those km attributable to this trip. For now ill leave everyone with a few photos from the trip so far and start catching up on the blog entries. Ill try to stick to photos and videos on the forums and leave all the wordy parts for the blog site for anyone that interested. Theres a facebook page for those that prefer to follow along on there too https://www.facebook.com/oztoice