| Nov 13 2015: It's not all Temples and Sunshine It becomes very clear that the grey skies above us just cannot tolerate the fact that we are dry. They welcome us to Thailand the RideDOT.com way.
— in Bangkok, Thailand
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| Nov 11 2015: The Ferengi in Bangkok Our taxi driver asks us for the name of our hotel. "We're going to Thara House", Iva replies. "Okay. Talahow", he nods confidently. Just for confirmation, I ask him, "So uh... Thara House, right?" "Yes, Talahow".
— in Bangkok, Thailand
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| Nov 08 2015: A Change of Scenery It's interesting how our meandering route has taken a couple of drastic turns that we could not have foreseen. We've been so heads-down on a path that's seemed laid out for months ahead of us and now everything is wide open again. Exciting!
— in Pula, Croatia
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| Nov 01 2015: Smell Roses You can travel for years and years, turn miles and miles beneath your wheels. You can chase every burning sunset to the ground of a different country each night, lie awake till morning to breathe in the foreign sky of a brand new day.
— in Hum, Croatia
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| Oct 25 2015: Learn how to speak Croatian Basically, if you make a lot of involuntary noises, you're already well on your way to speaking Croatian!
— in Krk, Croatia
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| Oct 15 2015: But I wanted to show you... The weather conspires to ruin Neda's guided tour of Slovenia.
— in Bled, Slovenia
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| Oct 12 2015: Back to the Italian Alps The road carves a narrow path alongside the steep face of the mountain. Slate grey peaks covered in greenery peek through a shroud of clouds in the distance, and the valley drops off dramatically beside us. The late autumn trees look like they are on fire in contrast to the brilliant blue sky above - that sky that seems to be borrowed from the summer that we never had.
— in Sappada, Dolomites, Italy
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| Oct 07 2015: Como Ver Here They call this town the "Pearl of the Lake" and it's where rich Italians go on vacation in the summer months to escape the heat of the lowlands of Milan. Since we are neither rich nor Italian, it's off to do more riding. Andiamo!
— in Bellagio, Lombardy, Italy
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| Oct 06 2015: The Swiss Alps Woke up in a tent. Traversed the whole length of Switzerland in a day. Marvelous scenery. Great roads. Good company. Life is simple, but it's good.
— in Andermatt, Switzerland
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| Oct 05 2015: The Black Forest All the buildings in the small villages here look as if they came straight out of a Brother's Grimm fairy tale. It feels like there's a big bad wolf or gingerbread-baking witch lurking behind every shop door.
— in Triberg, Germany
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| Oct 03 2015: The Great Beer Feud of the North You may know about Liverpool vs Manchester United. Canadiens vs Maple Leafs. Red Sox vs Yankees. But have you heard of the one between Cologne and Dusseldorf?
— in Dusseldorf, Germany
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| Oct 02 2015: Our Freunde Deutschland-Tour Continues Perhaps for those of our ilk, "real life" *IS* the nomadic existence. And the long periods in between travel are spent sleepwalking through the routines of whatever needs to be done - anything to taste again the freedom of our waking and most-alive moments wandering the world on the back of a motorcycle.
— in Cologne, Germany
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