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Overland Travel, Expedition & Adventure Information for 4x4, motorcycle and truck overlanders
It was January 2011, I was 2 years sober on the 17th and was in Colorado talking on the phone with my friend Mandy Miller who was instrumental in getting me into rehab 2 years earlier so I could get clean and sober. I was nearly a year on the road at the time and was chatting with her…
The end product of 3 months of work. Hello and welcome to the final installment of my BMW Duo-Drive Sidecar Conversion. You can read Pt I of the build here, Pt II of the build here, Pt III of the build here, and Pt IV of the build here. Looking through all the pictures I shot and revisiting…
The first 2 weeks of Global Inc Safari were amazing, thanks to our very special friends and family! Our tiki tour to Europe left us with everlasting memories and a strong feeling of wanting to return. We felt at home in Amsterdam, and had the best time exploring with locals as locals! Spain and Ibiza was something else, mainly a…
For this post, and several more to come, I am going to talk a little bit about my employer, Grand European Tours, and the tours Jim & I have experienced with them. Yes, this is a bit of a deviation from the normal content, but never fear, I’ll still be talking travel! I started with Grand European Tours in 1997…
The weather here in Holland can change drastically from hour to hour. When I arrived here in Elsendorp in the Netherlands on April 29th, the weather was still a little chilly, in the 40′s at night, up to the 60′s in the daytime. Then as May turned into June the weather got progressively better, temperatures climbing, falsely lulling me into…
A chance encounter with a man sitting on a tiny little stool cleaning his Triumph motorcycle on a lazy Sunday afternoon on the Kleine Berg in Eindhoven, a small narrow street with an abundance of cafes and restaurants which gives a very charming and artistic air to it, led to one of those discoveries that many look for, but in…
The Netherlands, in it’s entirety, is often referred to (and inaccurately so) as Holland, whereas North and South Holland are actually only two of it’s twelve provinces. In English the country is called ‘the Netherlands’, while the people are called Dutch. In Dutch the official terms for these are ‘Nederland’ for the country, ‘Nederlanders’ for the people and ‘Nederlands’ for…
France, somewhere in the countryside, on our way to Mr Harley Day 8 Weather: Warm, dry light wind Total distance: 960km Hey people, First week of our journey and we’re somewhere in rural France. We’ve just stopped by the side of this back country road. It’s picnic time and we have piles of cheese, crusty fresh bread, juicy cherry tomatoes…