Sunday, 30 September 2012

Whistler to Seattle



Pete here:
Returning to a place for the second time on the same trip is the close...

Outdoor Motorbike Cover – BMW GS Adventure

Outdoor Motorcycle Cover for a BMW GS Adventure Motorcycle: Review


Finding an indoor or outdoor motorbike cover which will fit a BMW GS Adventure motorcycle or just a BMW GS ...

RIDE AWAY CANCER and the Road to RUSSIA.

 
What’s Next?

Such a simple question. One that rattles around in my brain in various forms often. But to give credit where it is due I will thank Neil Peart of RUSH fame and his book Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and T...

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Newfoundland – Add it to your bucket list.

Don’t ask why it should be on your bucket list, just add it.  Now.  And be sure you come in the summer. 
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Having left my bank card in Nicaragua I needed a safe place to send my card to. I had briefly met a girl called Jenny Xie in Lago Atitlan Guatemala who worked in San Vito Costa Rica. This was my only contact in Costa Rica so I arranged to have my car...

Ronnie and Patricia’s Wedding Photos…

Patricia and I have been inundated with messages of congratulations and goodwill, for all of which we are sincerely grateful… We have decided to share an assortment of our wedding day photos with the many thousands of people who have followed my expl...

Saturday, 15 September 2012

Do We Look Nervous…??



With just two hours to go, here are a few photos of us this morning….

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I was up early this morning to greet this new and auspicious day…

I stood on the beach watching the sun come up and making wishes that were carried away on the early morning breeze that was coming off the Atlantic Ocean…

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The last week has been more than a little hectic…

I have been swamped at times by tides of emotion that have had me upbeat one moment and down the next…!!

I have been trying to deal with the fact that my long journey around the world is almost ...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Tough Miles Blog 11: Vancouver to Alaska



Jon here:
We arrived in Vancouver at 1am on the 8th August, narrowly escaping a h...

#70 History repeating itself: Banos, Tena Quito

Jon here: Day 94 of the trip. Having ridden through Europe, Russia, Mongolia and South Korea it was finally time for Tough Miles to hit up the USA. With the bikes onboard a container ship somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Pete and I took ...

CANADA - Ab in den Süden

 



Oh Canada, our beloved northern neighbor, whose residents LOVE their Tim Horton’s (their version of Starbucks) more than sliced bread.  Oh, if they only knew a real coffee shop.  You won’...

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

A Wild Night

Please forgive the formatting in advance!  I can’t figure out this iPad Safari WordPress experience!!!  If someone wants to tell me how to get the WP iOS app to connect to www.overlandnow.com you would be my hero…………

So exactly how many times in y...

Monday, 3 September 2012

A Quickening of the Pulses…!!

September has finally arrived…!! And with it the confirmation that this month has and always will be, a very special one for me…
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So I had been scrimping on tyres a bit, hoping to make it to Colombia where I would fit out my bike for the next leg of the journey.  But in doing that I had left myself e...

Saturday, 1 September 2012

Tough Miles Blog 9: South Korea.

 

Passport found, Canada bound!

Funny how Plan B’s turn into Plan C’s.  Tad found his passport after 2 days diversion to Detroit.  The night before our appoin...

Getting the Boot

If you read the ‘Passport Found’ blog, you’re may be wondering about how we managed to get kicked out of a friend’s house – thought it was worthy of noting.  This was one hellofa strange encounter.

We had visions of meeting a lot of people on this...

49 years and counting…