HU Travellers Meeting Germany Summer 2013

Here's what we had in 2012:

Get Inspired!

• 2-wheels 1-world 0-money
  • Daniel Rintz
    A day-dreamer rides around the world on a motorcycle, surviving on the money he makes on the way, until he finds what he what he wasn't even looking for.
    War zone borders, engine trouble and the difficulties of making money to survive couldn't outweigh the thrill of adventure and discovery I encountered while motorcycling around the world for over two and a half years. This is an intimate portrait of the changes a man experiences after numerous encounters with foreign cultures and beliefs.
    
  • Daniel, born October 30th '77, Filmmaker, Designer, Handy-Harry, and who is known to be creative, spontaneous, curious, impulsive, restless and yet sometimes absent-minded.
    Why am I an Open-Explorer? Traveling is my passion. It always appeals to me to expose myself to difficult situations. I'm convinced that this will make me grow. Experiences from extensive previous travels have changed the way I see the world today. With the Open-Explorers project I hope to take things a step further and attempt to prove to myself that it's possible to travel this world under the least luxurious circumstances which inevitably are going to make me dive into different lifestyles more deeply.
    I'd be delighted to find other people encouraged to travel themselves and therefore lead the world's course towards more goodness. I believe that the exceptional and intense experiences made during a journey lead to a pattern of behaviour that is defined by tolerance, understanding and good nature.
  
  

  

• South America to Ushuaia
• Richard Winter, TravellingStrom, Australia, on RTW,
  Heading south, destination Dakar Rally and the southern tip


• Social media on travels (Live Podcast),
  • Claudio Gnypek (muthoka) and Sonja Ritter
    Welche social media kann ich für Motorradreisen nutzen? Erfahrungen und Praxistipps von Teilnehmenden sind erwünscht.
    What can I use social media for motorcycle trips? Experiences and practical tips from participants are welcome.





• "theotherway" to Asia
  • Marc Wibbels
    From green woods to dry deserts -passing the deepest salt lakes and highest mountains in the world.


• Arizona to the Panama Canal
  • Lynn Brown (USA) & Thomas Beez (Germany) will share their eight-nation tour from Arizona to the Panama Canal. The trip lasted five weeks and covered 10,000 km (6,200 miles), exploring eight countries and negotiated nine international border crossings. Lynn and Thomas visited colonial cities, rode the Devil's Spine (one of the 10 best motorcycle roads in the world), explored old mining towns and ancient Mayan ruins in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. The trip also included Costa Rica, Belize, and crossing the Bridge of the Americas over the Panama Canal. We plan to continue the journey in 2012 into South America.
• Alles klar, my best friend?
  • Martin and Pepi Jungowski
    A trip around Tunisia in October 2011, right before their first free elections after ousting Ben Ali.

  
  Tunisia 2011



• On 50 Euros to the Mediterrean Coast (as written about in Tourenfahrer)
  • Jens Ruprecht, Germany, HU Germany meeting organizer and Edelweiss tour guide
    Durchgebissen: Für 50 Euro ans Mittelmeer?


• The Frog Princess
  • Benedikt Frank
    Germany to Nepal: The story of a little green motorcycle on the way from Germany to Nepal - via Iran, Central Asia, China and Pakistan
    
• Patagonia
  • Jens Ruprecht, Germany

Learn!

• GPS Technical Seminars:
• "Bertrand"
  1 - Adding Google Earth IMGs to GPS
  2 - Getting and adding maps from OpenSource
  3 - Creating Custom POI's
• Electrical Gremlins workshop
  • Workshop, by Ben Frank
    
    
• BMW F650 Modifications
  • Workshop, by Bertrand
    
• Cheeky, sneaky, legal backup preparation - German Documents
  • Hanno Krusken (spooky)
    I came back from my local vehicle registration office today, for extension and renewing some of my documents for traveling. Lots of cheeky tips on how to get a 2nd or even 3rd set of all travel documents in Germany, that including a 2nd Passport, 2nd int.driving license, 2nd int. vehicle license and how to get some more original green-cards for free out of the insurance companies, all perfectly legal. So there would not be any need to colour copy and laminate any of this papers for the risk of being called a fraud to fool foreign police officers. Now this workshop is very heavily regarded to the German documents and authorities, how to get them legally. This workshop would be most interesting for the international HU members on the meeting as well to listen, that the Germans are not that over correct as they may appear to be... :) Anyway, the international HU-members on the German HU-meeting would be able to use this workshop, to adapt for there own needs and national conditions, so I will hold this workshop in English with German inlays for the Germans for better understanding.
• DIY tools workshop "help-your-self"
  • Hanno Krusken (spooky)
    With this DIY-workshop I would like to support other HU members to do their own service, show what minimal tools they need to be able to actually do their own service or emergency repair, not being worried about getting dirty or helpless in such situations.

• Fix that flat! How to change a tire anytime, anywhere
• Workshop
  How to prevent flats in the first place, and fix them when you get one. The best tools and how to use them for tube and tubeless tires. Hands on practical and tire changing contest for beginners to experts!


Tech session

• How to write and publish your travel book!
• Jens Ruprecht, Germany
  Want to get your story published and on Amazon? Jens did it, and here's how!

• Women only
• a very popular session - I'm told it's a must for the ladies, so be sure to plan on being there! A chance to talk to experienced travelling women without the men around!

Experienced Travellers Panel - ask the experts anything you want!

Have Fun! Field Events

Not sure what they're doing, but it looks like fun!

The fine art of the helmet toss

Facilities for a Fantastic Four Days

The event will be held at:

Gasthaus „Zur Schneeburg“
69509 Ober-Liebersbach
(30 min. north of Heidelberg)

 

Enjoying the lovely summer weather!

Tech session in the big tent

Camping

Camping IS included in your registration. There is lots of room for camping!

Food

Is NOT included in your registration price.

Served all day, breakfast €5 from 08.00 every day, then hot meals from 11:30 till 22.00, a wide and varied menu - typical dishes of the area (Odenwald), including vegetarian, at reasonable prices. Try the Odenwald Äppelwoi! (applewine).