| Sep 30 2015: Smarties, Panniers and Rings The Nurburgring parking lot is full of exotic cars and motorcycles, tweaking suspension, tire pressures, anything that will help shave seconds off their lap time. And me, ditching all the luggage off my big dirtbike...
— in Nurburgring, Germany
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| Sep 26 2015: BMW Zamboni Park It's like being invited to go mountain-bike riding and showing up with a zamboni. And then realizing once you're out on the trails that it's a magical BMW Motorrad Zamboni that's capable of wheelying and jumping over hills.
— in Hechlingen, Germany
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| Sep 20 2015: Baltic Run, Polish Shrines and German Beer Whenever there are mountains or lakes, you're almost guaranteed curvy roads in the vicinity. I can't remember the last time we rode just for the pleasure of riding and not as a means to get somewhere.
— in Gizycko, Poland
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| Sep 15 2015: Hot Estonian Women After coming back from her Yoga class, Neda exclaimed to me, "Estonian women are so beautiful!" She looked at me expectantly, waiting for my reply. I've been married for 11 years now and I know a trap when I hear one. So I carefully measured my response, looked her straight in the eye and told her...
— in Tallinn, Estonia
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| Aug 16 2015: KGB Found Us! Catching up with a friend we haven't seen in a while. And KGB catches up with us too.
— in St Petersburg, Russia
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| Aug 14 2015: Searching for the Soviet Union I wanted to talk to an older Russian person, to ask them what it was like experiencing the Cold War from the other side of the Iron Curtain. Did they fear and villainize us like we did them?
— in St Petersburg, Russia
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| Aug 13 2015: The Church of the Transfiguration of Our Saviour From the way the Russian tourists were staring at me, I got the impression that everyone on the tour knew that we had brought the rains with us.
— in Kizhi Pogost, Russia
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| Aug 12 2015: Warming up the Cold War The ex-KGB officer glares menacingly at our paperwork, like a much older Ivan Drago staring down Rocky Balboa. Will we be let into Mother Russia?
— in Petrozavodsk, Russia
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| Aug 10 2015: Crossing the Finnish Line Mulling over the future of our trip and the rest of our lives.
— in Savonlinna, Finland
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| Jul 31 2015: It's 24 Hours of Sun and Rain, Dear We stood around waiting for the sun to fall slowly out of the sky. Then we watched in wonder as it bounced off the horizon at exactly midnight, then rose up to mark a brand new day.
— in Nordkapp, Norway
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| Jul 26 2015: The Lofoten Islands We tour all the tiny fishing villages on the Lofoten archipelago, and Neda becomes an honorary Norwegian fisherman!
— in Lofoten Islands, Norway
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| Jul 24 2015: We're in the Arctic now! Oh yeah, and also crossing the "most dangerous bridge in the world"...
— in Bodø, Norway
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Jan 25 2018 to Feb 20 2018
South Africa
Lesotho
Japan
Canada
Croatia
Cambodia
Thailand
Ireland
Wales
France
Italy
Scotland
United Kingdom
Isle of Man
Northern Ireland
Austria
Luxembourg
Greece
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
Montenegro
Albania
Malaysia
Singapore
Laos
Germany
Switzerland
Slovenia
Norway
Finland
Russia
Estonia
Poland
Czech Republic
Belgium
Denmark
Sweden
The Netherlands
Morocco
Spain
Portugal
Peru
San Marino
Ecuador
Colombia
Honduras
Nicaragua
Panama
Guatemala
El Salvador
Cuba
Mexico
Belize
Jamaica
United States
Jan 25 2018 to Feb 20 2018
