Ride of a lifetime... 38 days of European Alps

[glitch_oz]

Hi all :msn-wink::msn-wink:

Just back from a 6-week/ 8000km romp through the European Alps.

38 days on-the-road, folks….IN ONE HIT !!!!!

This story is turning into an absolute MONSTER.... ...there are 1900 pics, YES, 1900 so far…and it’s well on the way to become the biggest yarn of it’s kind ever on the Net...
Move over Ben Hur…:eek:

Another 400 just got upped for the next few days of the story….

After a week's break to get some other stuff done...like having a shower or so :bleh::bleh: I’ll ba back into it…and Gosh, there are some crackers in the pipe :niceone::niceone::niceone:

Grab a case of your favourite brew, a box of munchies, shut the door to keep the kids out…and get stuck into it ….
The yarn goes WAY BEYOND your average ride-report (and by Gosh, I've cobbled a few of those together)....it's a personal voyage of memories and discoveries.


http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1506


And as some folks said in another forum...take it from the start, there's more to it than a few thousand pics ;)

Note: Due to the ridiculous amount of grafix, dial-up modem connections could melt in the vain attempt to load pages. Broadband of some sort is HIGHLY advisable (even then things could be very slow).




Enjoy
Pete

[glitch_oz]

Here's a short teaser of part of Day 3 on the road:

:argh::argh:, just found that img-tags don't work here...no pics in the thread then, sorry



A short break in St. Etienne de Tinee…before it’s up one of the “Classics”, the highest (sealed) Pass of the Alps…. the Col de la Bonette.:so

http://www.glitch-oz.com/pics/07/Tornanti/tor0326.jpg

Up “the Bonette”…bends till ya drop, hairpins galore! :eek:

http://www.glitch-oz.com/pics/07/Tornanti/tor0327.jpg

http://www.glitch-oz.com/pics/07/Tornanti/tor0328.jpg

http://www.glitch-oz.com/pics/07/Tornanti/tor0329.jpg

[glitch_oz]

Day 19:


HOLY MACKEREL !!!!!! :eek::eek:

http://www.glitch-oz.com/pics/07/Tornanti/2/tor2009a.jpg

http://www.glitch-oz.com/pics/07/Tornanti/2/tor2009b.jpg

http://www.glitch-oz.com/pics/07/Tornanti/2/tor2009c.jpg

http://www.glitch-oz.com/pics/07/Tornanti/2/tor2009e.jpg

http://www.glitch-oz.com/pics/07/Tornanti/2/tor2009f.jpg

http://www.glitch-oz.com/pics/07/Tornanti/2/tor2009g.jpg

[fergie]

great pics!. what an awesome holiday.

[glitch_oz]

great pics!. what an awesome holiday.

It certainly was !!:banana::banana:
Part 4 of the "Yarns" will get started middle of this week, another 600pics and some of them are superb.

[Hitcher]

Stories such as these lead to motorcycling wunderlust...

http://www.pashnit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7137&garpg=32

[limbimtimwim]

Great pics and story, I will have to come back to it later. Awesome. I am jealous.

You will all be crying into your keyboards in a year when I am living there.

[glitch_oz]

Great pics and story, I will have to come back to it later. Awesome. I am jealous.

You will all be crying into your keyboards in a year when I am living there.

Hopefully you'll do better than what I did...when living over there, I somehow never had the chance to do a ride like that...
Good to see some are enjoying the story...:niceone:
Part4 is started...and will be updated daily.

For a 5-week NZ cruize in 2005
http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=802
:woohoo::woohoo:

[SDU]

For a 5-week NZ cruize in 2005
http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=802
:woohoo::woohoo:

Awesome read. (Have yet to get through it all but great so far)

[Finn]

You were doing so well until I noticed your copyright infringement...

http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1506