Hello Bea & Helle. I live in the US. And I am planning on being in Alaska in Early July 2012. I will keep an eye on you. Maybe we can meetup somewhere in that are of the world. Good luck with your trip. Sounds fantastic.

Hello Bea and Helle,

I just read your tripp and it sound's really great, me and my girlfriend also would like to go on a trip like yours probably in 2013 ( the time my girlfriend finishes collage )
Anyway if you are starting from Germany it would be a great oportunity to visit Romania, Brasov and we could meet host you for a day, we also ride a Honda Transalp.

Thank's

Zoltan

Hi Guys


Look forward to your blog, nevermind the english, on 2 wheels we have only one language, ride safe and kep it the right side up.

Thefastone

steve


We are a couple - Bea 27 years old and Helle 29 years old - from Upper Bavaria in Germany.

We´ll start on our motorbike worldtour with our two Honda Transalps - year of construction 1991 and 1993 - in June 2011.

We´ll drive trough eastern Europe (Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia) till Vladiwostok. From there we´ll ship to Thailand. There we´ll ride a round to Cambodia and Laos before we´ll drive southbound to Australia. There we eventually will do a little work & travel to fill up our vacation fund.
Then we´ll ship to Alaska to ride the famous Panamericana to Tierra del Fuego. Maybe, if we have enough money, we´ll visit some more areas in Canada and North America and the African continent, too, at our way home to Germany. But that´ll come up...

If you want to know more about us and about our journey, then visit our homepage www.TimetoRide.de

We hope to get more information about foreighn countries in this forum and - eventually - contact to lokal bikers which can give us tips to their contries. We would be very pleased to hear from you!

Greets from Upper Bavaria
Bea & Helle

PS: please excuse our bad German-English, but we hope to get better during our journey! [/quote]

Jealous? Oh yes!
Enjoy the trip

Hello to everybody from very cold Upper Bavaria!

At the moment, we create a preparations-video about all the things we had to do the last weeks: the many visits by our doc to get all the necessary vaccinations the latest preparations of our bikes our mind and emotions regarding to our coming trip and what our friends and family think about our crazy idea...
The first part of the video - it´s about how we got our world tour-goodbye-memory-tattoo by our good friend Michi, a tattoo artist - is online now!
You can find it here: http://www.timetoride.de/#58
Have fun watching the video!

See you soon!
Bea & Helle

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How come you are skipping India? Its such an experience riding here. :-(

Hello deadman23,
we had thought about riding the north or the south route quite at the beginning of our trip-planning. But if we choose the south route, we have to pass the Iran and Pakistan... and we are a bit unsure about the security situation in these countries...
Inter alia because of this, we had decided us for the northern route. And also we are curious about countries like Russia, Kazakhstan or Mongolia which we are very interested in because of the endless landscape and the sparse settlement!
Unfortunately we had to cancel Japan from our route because of this unimaginable nuclear accident. Now we are planning to get a shipping container from Vladiwostok to somewhere in south east Asia. We hope, that this plan will work out!
Many greetings from Upper Bavaria
Bea & Helle

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Hey Bea & Helle! Sounds like an awesome trip, I'm jealous!

If you ever need some tips/info about working in Australia as a traveler, let me know, I would be happy to help. I worked and lived in Australia for almost two years and I did a lot of the fruit picking thing, which can be quite good money if you know where and when to go!

Just on a quick note, the best fruits to pick are cherries and mandarins. Most of the other fruits are really not as good compared to those two, although the vines can be pleasant to do too. The cherry season starts around mid-November and ends mid-January, while the mandarin season runs from mid-March to late August if I'm correct. In both cases you can easily make 200$ a day or more if you work reasonably hard and if you land at the right place!

I'd be happy to share some of my contacts with you! Hope this helps.

Take care,

Sam

wakold, i might need your help with that. I'll be heading east from India next year in jan and hope to make it to Australia by march-april. I could do with those $200 a day. :-)

Sure, I'll be happy to help! In April the winter is pointing its nose in Australia, so make sure to have some warm clothing! The nights do get really cold. If you're ever interested to pick mandarins, you'll have to head for Gayndah, in the state of Queensland. Let me know whenever you'll need more details.

Hello wakold,

thank you for the great tips!

Yes, we are planning to work in Australia with a Work & Travel Visa, but we heard from others, that you can only earn very little money with this jobs... :confused1: so it´s great for us to hear, that this information isn´t correct in general!

We are planning to arrive in Darwin in December 2011 if everything goes as planned and then we will see, where we will travelling at first...

If it´s o.k. for you, we would like to contact you in December to get some further informations from you?

Up until that many thanks for your help and your tips!

Greetings from spring-like Upper Bavaria
Bea & Helle

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Hello Bea and Helle:

Unfortunately I have internet slower than my Ural today, so I can't see your website yet.

But any RTW is eexciting and you chose Transalps!! (I have a 93! )

I'll be interested to read about your adventures, exploits and experiences! And, if you come through Estonia, contact us throught the HUBB communities list for Tallinn as mentioned by Grant!!

Tchüss!

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Hi again Bea & Helle.

Well the truth is that indeed, most people doing the fruit picking business in Australia don't earn that much money. And there are 2 simple reasons for that: they go to the wrong places at the wrong time. As long as you land in a good farm and you pick the right fruit, I can assure you that you can make some good money (all is relative of course). But of course many factors are in play, such as your ability to work hard, and fast with your hands, and the season which is sometimes hit and miss. But recently the droughts have eased in Australia and as a result the crops are much better than a couple of years ago.

But, just to serve as an example, when I picked cherries in Cobram, last December 2008, I made anywhere from 200 to 375$ a day. Of course I am a very fast picker and at that time I had 4 seasons of experience behind me, but this is just to show you that if you are motivated and you can learn the trick, there is no reason why you wouldn't make some reasonable money. Even better than that, I was lucky to see one of the best cherry seasons Tasmania had seen back in December 2007, and during a short but amazing 15 days, I made anywhere from 350 to 500$ a day. But more reasonable expectations for any new picker would be a stable 150 to 250$ a day during a moderately good season.

The only problem is that the seasons are often short, ranging anywhere from 3 to 6 weeks. This is why many pickers like mandarins, because although the money is not as good (anywhere from 100 to 250$ a day of hard work), the work is very stable and spread over many months.

I see that you will be most likely arriving in Darwin in December. That's the wet season by the way, unless I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's the case . It can be tricky to drive in the bush during those times, lots of crazy storms and torrential rains. In any case, my advice would be to drive eastward all the way to Cairns, and then head your way down to southern Queensland, where the citrus fruits grow. That'll give you around 3-4 months to cruise down this beautiful place of Australia, until you reach Gayndah in March. Unfortunately for you, however, this time of the year happens to be the jellyfish season in Northern Queensland (i.e. Cairns area), so I'm not sure if you'll have the chance to enjoy great snorkeling and diving at the Great Barrier Reef, but if you can you shouldn't miss this opportunity.

Once again, let me know if you need help anytime!

Take care, and have a nice trip.

Sam

@Warthog
Thank you very much for your offer to contact you! It surely would be very interesting to visit Estonia, but unfortunately, Tallin is to far in the north for our current route...
But when we are back from our RTW trip, we need new aims where to drive with our motorbikes, then we will come and visit you!
@wakold
Thank you very much for your further informations! Your are really knowledgeable about Working in Australia! We would be pleased, if we can possibly contact you, if we have further questions when we are in Australia!

Many greetings (still) from Upper Bavaria! But not for long time, in about 5 weeks we´ll start our journey!!!

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Hello to everybody!

We had started our world trip at the 18th of June and at the moment we are in Ulan Bataar / Mongolia.
So far, our trip is very amazing and we had a very good time, meeting very interesting people, seen amazing landscapes… we love it!

On our homepage www.timetoride.de and on our facebook-page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Time-t...15955945143396 you can find our latest travel reports and many pictures.

But now we have a real problem. We will try to ship our 2 motorbikes from Vladivostok to somewhere in South East Asia, Bangkok is our preferred goal. But we can´t find any informations about shipping bikes from Vladivostok to Bangkok. We will arrive in Vladivostok in about 2 – 3 weeks we think.

Maybe some of you have an advice for us or knows people who had shipped their bikes the same way or knows a shipping company or some lokals in Vladivostok?

We would be very pleased of any kind of help!
Thank you very much!

Bea & Helle

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