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Jealous? Oh yes!
Enjoy the trip 
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25 Feb 2011
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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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5 Mar 2011
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How come you are skipping India? Its such an experience riding here. :-(
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17 Apr 2011
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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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17 Oct 2011
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Welcome and good luck. I will be following your epic journey every month,
Enjoy it!
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22 May 2012
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Love your website! remember, always take lots of pictures, you may never be there again.
See you on the road,
David 
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9 Jul 2012
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Hey Guys!
Some of you asked us if we can keep you up to date from every now and then and so, here we are with our first report, currently from a cattle- and cotton farm west of Goondiwindi in the Southwestern Outback of Queensland.
If you are wondering what we are doing here in this freezing cold place (yes, we definitely underestimated the temperatures during the winter time here… *brrrrrr* ), we are working and working and working – actually about 12 to 16 hours a day, 7 days a week and this for the next 3 month to refill our travel fund! 
You don’t believe us? Hera is the photographic evidence!
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.360373904034931.79527.115955945143396&type= 1
We´ll continue travelling in the End of September, heading up to Cairns and start our trip down the East coast from there in the Beginning of October!
And you can believe us, we are REALLY looking forward to be on the road again!  
Cheers from the “labor camp” 
Bea & Helle
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27 Feb 2013
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Hello all together!
Some of you may remember us, but some probably will never have heard from us before… unfortunately, our last update in this blog is quite a while ago, too… 
So we thought that the time has home to send a sign of live. Yes, we are still alive and yes, we are still “on the road”. And after nearly 2 years of traveling around the world, luckily there is still no end in sight! 
A couple of days ago our motorcycles and we arrived back from „the island“, in our case, we shipped back from beautiful Tasmania to the Australian main land. At the moment we are sitting in Melbourne, organizing some paperwork and stuff like that before we´ll hit the road again in the beginning of next week. Our next destination? Westwards!
In the last almost 2 years since we are on our motorcycle travel around the world, a lot has happened! We rode our bikes through Eastern Europe, East Asia and Southeast Asia. Now we are traveling through Down Under where we´ll stay until the end of this year and then… heading for new shores!
If you have become interested, then please visit our web pagewww.timetoride.deor our Facebook pagewww.facebook.com/pages/Time-to-ride/115955945143396. There you can find lots of travel reports, pictures, videos and many interesting things more!
And only recently we have released our brand new “Twitter”-Account https://twitter.com/Time_to_Ride where we will keep you informed about our fantastic journey as well!
Cheers from rainy Melbourne
Bea & Helle
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23 Dec 2013
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Bye, bye Australia!
As our time in Australia is nearly over, we wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU to all Austrailan bikers!
Thank you for your great tips and advices and thank you for all your kind offers to give us a roof over our head for a couple of days. We so really, really appreciate this!
Unfortunately it was impossible for us to meet all of you as Australia is a huge country and after 1 ½ years of traveling, we still haven´t seen all of it yet.
(That´s actually a really good reason to come back some day! )
We are in Brisbane right now where we´ll celebrate Christmas before we fly over to Auckland in a couple of days.
Our bikes are at the port already, waiting for their ship to New Zealand.
If everything goes well we´ll be back on the road in NZ at the beginning of January where another part of our journey begins.
If you want to follow our travel – we have still plenty of countries left to go - please visit our web page www.TimetoRide.de which is now available in English as well as in German and other languages.
And also have a look at our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Time-to-ride/115955945143396 for the latest pictures and news.
Once again, thank you for your great support while visiting your beautiful country!
Cheers
Bea & Helle
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24 Dec 2013
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Hello all together,
Our new travel report „The Rock“ is about THE ONE rock in Australia.
Of course there are plenty of travel reports and pictures about the Uluru but of course, as soon as we arrived there, dark clouds have been risen from the horizon… but that´s not always a bad sign!
What we exactly experienced in the heart of Australia you can read here:
Australien 21 - The Rock! - TimetoRide - Auf Motorrad-Weltreise mit Bea & Helle
(Please select English Language at the right hand side of the web page!)
Cheers
Bea & Helle
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20 Jul 2015
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Good luck and enjoy
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18 Oct 2015
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Thanks Quique de Vidania!
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18 Oct 2015
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Hi all together!
We had a tough time over the last 3 month as we needed to ride our bikes about 10.000 km from Brazil to Columbia.
Therefore we had no time to update our posts here in the forum…
But that doesn´t mean that there is nothing new on our blog, quite the contrary, there is plenty of new stuff to explore!
The most important first: We´ve released A NEW VIDEO!
Join us on our way in the Argentinean Andes mountains up to nearly 5.000 meter where we have to battle with thin air, rough roads, strong winds an sand.
On our further way through Chile and Argentina we are following a track into the snow-capped mountains, where we have to face one of the greatest challenges of our previous journey that leads us to our physical and mental limits.
Will we be able to master this challenge as a team?
See for yourself and be part of our adventure America del Sur:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPIgSCpw8zI
~ English subtitles and HD video quality are available via the “settings” options ~
Furthermore we have released 5 new travel reports about our exciting and adventurous travel through Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia!
In the category “Travel diary South America” you will find an overview of all our new travel reports:
Südamerika - TimetoRide - Auf Motorrad-Weltreise mit Bea und Helle
(Please use the language select button on the right hand side of the page!)
In our newest travel report „No man´s land“ we are crossing hundreds of kilometers of harsh, scorching savannah.
In this part the Trans-Chaco-Highway turned into a mogul slope with lots of sand passages and so we are very exhausted but happy as we returned back into civilization just a few kilometers after the Bolivian border.
But we don´t stay long as the Second Death Road, one of South Americas most dangerous roads is awaiting us. The track turns out to be a real challenge for us and our bikes.
On our further way north we are riding higher and higher into the Andes up until 4.100 m, where we got hit by the altitude sickness with strong headaches, shortness of breath and racing heart.
So it happens that we are going to try a proven Bolivian household remedy: chewing coca leaves!
Still not completely recovered but nevertheless full of anticipation we were riding to one of THE highlights of our travel through South America, the Salar de Uyuni, a giant salt lake in the middle of the Bolivian Altiplano.
Click here for more exciting and adventurous stories about our travel through Paraguay and Bolivia:
http://www.timetoride.de/2015/10/17/s%C3%BCdamerika-30-paraguay-bolivien-niemandsland/
(Please use the language select button on the right hand side of the page!)
Furthermore we have updated our category „Field reports”!
We are using our gore-tex motorcycle clothing DANE LIMFJORD motorcycle jacked and BRØNDBY motorcycle trousers every day for more than 1 ½ years now and that not just while riding our bikes but also when we have to work on the bikes, when we sit on the camp fire, when we are on a short hike and sometimes even when we are sleeping.
How is our DANE motorcycle clothing dealing with this permanent use, which goes far beyond the standard use motorcycle clothing is actually made for?
We have tested the motorcycle clothing extensively and summarized the experiences and opinions we made in 1 ½ years of permanent use in our new field report.
Click here for our report:
http://www.timetoride.de/ausr%C3%BCstung/erfahrungsberichte/
(Please use the language select button on the right hand side of the page!)
And we alsohave three new questions we would like to answer you in our category Frequently Asked Questions „FAQ“!
# How do I create a blog and who is responsible for our web presence?
# Who is responsible for cutting and editing our videos and how does it work?
# Reporting from on the road – how does it work?
Click here for detailed information to all three questions:
http://www.timetoride.de/2015/06/08/faq/
(Please use the language select button on the right hand side of the page!)
But that´s still not all!
Our category „TRAVEL DIARY“ received a facelift, too!
From now on the category is structured even more clearly and you can select all travel reports via interactive Google Maps, sorted by continent.
Moreover you can select separate continents and our page will show you an overview over all our travel reports of the selected region.
We hope this improvement will make your browse through our travel reports even more easy and pleasant!
Click here for the newly designed category „TRAVEL DIARY“:
http://www.timetoride.de/reisetagebuch/
(Please use the language select button on the right hand side of the page!)
As you can see, there´s plenty of new stuff to check out on our blog!
Enjoy!
Cheers, currently from windy and cold Bogota/Columbia,
Bea & Helmut
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30 Oct 2015
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G´day mates!
Some of the categories on our web page will get a new look in the next couple of weeks.
The category “About us” is the first one and is now providing even more insights into our lives before and during our travel!
Click here for the new edited category:
http://www.timetoride.de/%C3%BCber-uns/
(Please use the language select button on the right hand side of the page!)
And we also have a news update in our category „Electronic“:
Over 4 years of sand, dust and washboard have left it´s traces on our Nikon D5100 which we have in use since we started our trip. So now it was finally time to get the camera exchanged.
In our category “Electronic” you will find detailed information about our new camera:
Elektronikausrüstung - TimetoRide - Auf Motorrad-Weltreise mit Bea und Helle
(Please use the language select button on the right hand side of the page!)
Enjoy!
Yours,
Bea & Helmut
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