RTWbyBIKE.com
30th December 2011, 08:03
Hello,
My wife and I are around 40, from Germany but we are living for a long time now in different countries - we lived and worked in Greece, Africa, and now for the last 6 years in Prague, Czech Republic. We are travelling 2up and so far we did some „shot“ bike trips, e.g. last year we made the full circle of Greece, 4.700km. Our bike is a Africa Twin RD07 from 93, 80k km, somehow modified with what is needed for some good travelling (suspense, electric (rectifier),gasoline pump, seat, tires, AluCases, screen ...).
We thought a long time about a RTW trip on a bike but we never did the final step… And now we did it, we quit our jobs and off we go. The rough plan till now (and that’s what we have actually), is going to New Zealand and from there we go to Bangkok up to North of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, to East Timor from there to Australia and around Australia (this order because of the rain seasons). After this part we will have to see if we drive back to Europe or ship the bike and fly...
If you like you can visit our blog at http://www.RTWbyBIKE.com.
We are grateful for all contacts, tips and advices, routes, places to stay, camp and having fun, a beer, good stories and everything what is fun!
We will do couchsurfing, watchmyhouse, housesharing and will visit friends on the way as well...
Kerstin and Sascha
SAFE RIDE EVERYBODY!!!
Above I posted in advrider, I think its a good introduction... now we are here in NZ for 10 weeks and did 8000km, all over north and south island. At the moment we are in Kairoura, raining and fog... just checking out of the hotel we could find for the night... everything else was booked... we decided to continue our way north. We planned to do the Rainbow Road and Malthworth Pass today but with this weather .... will see how it turnes out to be later in the day...
Any idea where to stay arround Picton or Blenheim? As we do not have internet on the road and IF there is somebody who can advise something (something like:"Hey guys come along here is a fun, warm and dry place...") ;) here is my mobilephone for any SMS/text msg...0211713079 ;)
THANK YOU ALL and see you on the road!
Sascha and Kerstin
www.RTWbyBIKE.com
My wife and I are around 40, from Germany but we are living for a long time now in different countries - we lived and worked in Greece, Africa, and now for the last 6 years in Prague, Czech Republic. We are travelling 2up and so far we did some „shot“ bike trips, e.g. last year we made the full circle of Greece, 4.700km. Our bike is a Africa Twin RD07 from 93, 80k km, somehow modified with what is needed for some good travelling (suspense, electric (rectifier),gasoline pump, seat, tires, AluCases, screen ...).
We thought a long time about a RTW trip on a bike but we never did the final step… And now we did it, we quit our jobs and off we go. The rough plan till now (and that’s what we have actually), is going to New Zealand and from there we go to Bangkok up to North of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, to East Timor from there to Australia and around Australia (this order because of the rain seasons). After this part we will have to see if we drive back to Europe or ship the bike and fly...
If you like you can visit our blog at http://www.RTWbyBIKE.com.
We are grateful for all contacts, tips and advices, routes, places to stay, camp and having fun, a beer, good stories and everything what is fun!
We will do couchsurfing, watchmyhouse, housesharing and will visit friends on the way as well...
Kerstin and Sascha
SAFE RIDE EVERYBODY!!!
Above I posted in advrider, I think its a good introduction... now we are here in NZ for 10 weeks and did 8000km, all over north and south island. At the moment we are in Kairoura, raining and fog... just checking out of the hotel we could find for the night... everything else was booked... we decided to continue our way north. We planned to do the Rainbow Road and Malthworth Pass today but with this weather .... will see how it turnes out to be later in the day...
Any idea where to stay arround Picton or Blenheim? As we do not have internet on the road and IF there is somebody who can advise something (something like:"Hey guys come along here is a fun, warm and dry place...") ;) here is my mobilephone for any SMS/text msg...0211713079 ;)
THANK YOU ALL and see you on the road!
Sascha and Kerstin
www.RTWbyBIKE.com