Hello everyone,

My names Danny and as the title says, im planning on making a pilgrimage around the world sometime in 2013 me thinks

Since I don't really have much experience in "Adventure Motorcycling" so I thought I would write a little something something, to give you all ideas on where about I am with riding as well as planning;


So hi im Danny, I’ve been riding bikes for going on 4 years now and have been loving every minute of it. Years back I discovered the adventures of Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman in the Long Way Round, and I thought to myself ‘what a novel thought’. unknown to me at the time this little seed of adventure had been planted and awaited idle in my brain till the time it was needed.

Years Later and now with my bike (A Varadero XL125) I plan to take ‘my show on the road’ and have a damn good attempt at getting around the world (with a limited budget), naturally I wont be doing this on the Varadero, next month (February 2011) Ill be booking and hopefully passing my Module 2 Motorcycle test so I can finally remove those ugly L Plates and over the coming months ill be saving all my pennies and living like a Hermit so for my Birthday ill be able to afford my step up bike, im going GS oh yeh! (F800 to be exact) and spend the next year or so prepping myself and the bike ready for some ‘big’ adventures

I have a plan this year to do a nice 1300 mile trip from home to John O' Groats and back again to break in the GS as well as get myself reacquainted with camping, last time I camped out was in the Scouts... so its been a while.

From that I intend to maybe take a trip around Europe in 2012 to find myself in unfamiliar surroundings and then kick it big stylie for 2013 by trying to take on the world, route wise I have nothing planned, might end up going through all of Russia and not peaking out to Mongolia or Kazakhstan, but you never know, all I know is I want it to be a fun and memorable dream come true/trip


So yeh that about covers where im up to in life and where I intend to go from here onwards,, I know I have alot of reading and research ahead of me so any help is welcomed with open arms a hug and a cup of tea

Thank You all
Dan