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‘It’s more than just a long motorcycle trip...’ Tony Wheeler, co-founder Lonely Planet.
'The road maybe silken but it is far...
Seven years, twenty countries, no plan. How it started... In 1998, after bringing up a family and enjoying a lifetime career as a nurse and...
OVERLAND MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW
Just occasionally a book arrives on the motorcycle travel scene that is different, brave, sure to cause controversy and...
OVERLAND MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEWDerek Mansfield could never be called a conventional character. Perhaps then, it’s not surprising that his books...
When people say “life’s a journey”, some take this aphorism more literally than others. Christopher Many embarked on an overland...
Hamilton Mack Laing was an illustrious early British Columbia writer and naturalist, but few know him as how he described himself in his mid-thirties...
A backpacker bought a little scooter and decided to ride it home from the south of Iran. Find out how to make the trip of a lifetime through the Middle East, the Caucasus, Turkey and the Balkans on a 600$ machine with a gas consumption not even worth mentioning while sleeping in a tent to save money – finances are always tight for us students.
And see what it’s like to drive through Iran as a woman through my partners eyes – she decided to tag along even though local women are not allowed to drive motorcycles in Iran (luckily tourists are).
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Story of a couple riding a big single from Finland to Nepal and back. Available only in FINNISH LANGUAGE.
The point of the trip was just the journey, not particularly the destinations, although we’ve seen some spectacular sights. It was about being...
A tale of a dream achieved, a journey of self-discovery and exploration of the world on motorbike. For all independent travel enthusiasts. “...
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