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Riding to the Moon is a long-distance adventure motorcycle ride from Los Angeles, California to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.... The ride was done by David Baumgarten, Alex Bisarello, Gary Kout, Jason Martin, and Jim Sowers in 1996-97. Jim Sowers then did a Cape Town to Cairo trip in 2000-2001 also documented on the site.
My Mexican Adventure- January 2002, three of us; Kevin from California, Tyson from Canada and myself (Dave) from Oregon, all riding KLR650's crossed over the border, to discover new horizons.
"the homepage of adventurers and writers Nina Rasmussen and Hjalte Tin." Motorcycle travels, often with children, and photos, books and articles. English and Danish.
"Our journey around the world... We want to show to everyone through this site that everyday ordinary people with regular incomes can achieve something wonderful with a lot of hard work and the help of family and friends. Tired of the rat race? Us too..."
Polish Canadians. In 2005 Greg and Natasha on one bike and Jacek on another attempted RTW trip, through Canada, Alaska and Russia ending the trip in Europe.
Good site, lots of European touring info, from a Canadian viewpoint, guide book list etc.
Tom Smith, from Canada, rode a 1985 Honda Elite - that's a scooter! around the world, from 1986 to 1988. He has a great book of his adventures too.
2 Canadians on motorcycles website. "We love to travel to different parts of the world on our motorcycles. We decided to share some of our travels, because we love reading about other folks adventures. We are Canadians living in Calgary, Alberta."
My last trip was to Ushuaia through Prudhoe Bay. Now I'm going to East Europe, Russia and Asia. (em Portuguese)
Antonio was the first to cross the Darien by motorcycle in 1989. His story is on his site. (link on the top right) Also other travel tales, in English, Spanish and German. If you're passing through Oaxaca, Mexico, contact Antonio via his site, he'd be delighted to meet you.
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