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Started their outback odyssey July, 2005. In English and Norwegian.
Motorcycle journeys to South America, Baltic and Australia on Yamaha XT models.
Australia to Cambodia, RideAid, 2004-5 Fremantle to Cambodia to raise money for the children of Cambodia. "Ride Aid will utilise the expertise of Bernard Krishner (Build a School Project) to construct schools and aid the education process. Utilising the Ride Aid network we will advance the educational process by directly linking the schools to sympathetic western schools and commercial organisations. The projects will strive to be holistic; involving the community; ensuring continuation of power through solar panels; supplying books and computers through supporting sponsors; establishing wells for fresh water to further assist the community; having a reserve fund to support teachers where necessary to ensure education is free and available to all; encourage our supporters to visit and assist the communities."
Heather Ellis is an Australian writer, journalist and motorcyclist who rode her Yamaha TT600 enduro motorcycle through Africa, Europe, Central Asia and into China and Vietnam from 1993 to 1997.
Australia, riding UK to Australia on Honda Pan-Europeans, 2007.
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