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. :-)