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Leaving the economic turmoil of Greece behind, Stergios Gogos initially set off to discover the world. By the tip of Africa he’d found much...
Quick moving, intense and at times wildly exciting, The Ripple Effect is an inspired road trip. It is the story of a man (on a bike) on the run from...
Heart-warming stories of life on the road from this couple in their late fifties who decided to live the dream and ride their KTM motorcycles round...
Follow Chantal and Jean through their nine months journey from Montreal to Alaska and then Tierra del Fuego. Stories and anecdotes are shared with...
This is an Apple iBook in Spanish which documents a month long journey of three travelers on two Royal Enfield EFI´s through the South of...
Lawrence Bransby, teacher, author and motorcycle traveller sets out, progressively over a period of five years, to “dip his toe into the vast...
A little over 40 years ago, a man named Gregory W. Frazier got on his motorcycle, went for a ride, and never returned. He’s still out there,...
Stuck in deep sand, stuck in snow, bogged down in glutinous mud, crossing boulder-strewn dry riverbeds.
A motorcycle trip that started with a vague...
Most people would regard it as irresponsible madness for a father to take his 17-year-old son, riding old and somewhat worn-out XT500 motorcycles, on...
Marco Polo's legendary journey overland from Xanadu in China to his home in Italy has fired the imaginations of travellers for 700 years. Even today, traversing the 20,000km Silk Road between Europe and the Far East is a perilous undertaking. But it sounded like just the challenge for Wellington economist Gareth Morgan and his intrepid wife Jo.
With five friends, they set off to travel the ancient route by a very modern mode of transport — motorcycle. Starting from the historic port of Venice, the Silk Riders crossed some of the most remote, inhospitable and politically unstable terrain in Eurasia, from the Balkan states, Turkey and Iran through various 'stans to the isolated western reaches of China, and along the Great Wall to Bejing
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