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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

Daily blog and photos of my trip down the east coast of Africa, London to South Africa in 2010 on my BMW F800GS.

Two up on a Transalp 650 - Scotland to Mongolia and back

Phillip Gales and Andrew Hitchings. Fundraising for a veteran's non-profit organization via a post-MBA graduation ride from Buenos Aires to Dallas, TX.  June-July 2013.

Follow my adventure through Africa. 

Read about my travels and meandering thoughts.

I will try and give as much info as possible about road conditions, visas, people and how to plan an overland adventure for rookies like myself.

Round the world -- Step by Step

Each year 4 weeks we started in Germany heading east via Turkey the Stans, to Mongolia. The travel continues to Magadan and then North and South America.

Hi! We are two friends from Greece outraged, inspired and anyway by occasion of the economic crisis and the unemployment here in Greece and generally in Europe - World, before 6 months we took the decision to give everything up and get out there on our beloved Vespas and just live our dream. We've sold everything we had (2 old Vespas, 1 old car, 1 motorcycle, many other small things), we kept our 2 everyday Vespas and in some months we'll be on the road!