Our time in Guatapé was coming to an end, so we decided to go on our last trip to a paisa town called San Carlos, which is a really small village with a huge history of violence due to the gerillas in the past decade. After stationing 1500 troops there, things calmed down quickly, and…
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Guatapé to Alejandría and the long way back
We decided to take a short trip from Guatapé to Alejandría, as we saw the really nice new road earlier when we checked out San Rafael. We went to Guatape Motos again and we got a nice, red Yamaha Libero 125. A different one than last time 🙂 We headed towards San Rafael and we…
Guatapé 1 Day trip to Cocorná
We are still in Guatapé and after the Small Ring we decided to go again with Guatape Motos and ride around in a bigger circle and try another bike on the Colombian highway. This time we hopped on a Yamaha Libero 125, that supported our journey with much more torque, so when we headed to…
Guatapé Small Ring
We made it to a small town in Colombia called Guatapé couple of days ago, where we’re staying with Guatape Motos (you can check them out) as our Workaway host for about a month. The first task we got as volunteers was to get on a Honda CB125 and explore the surrounding areas. Since we…
Grossglockner and the farewell party
Distance: 1.673,82 km Duration: 27 hour 0 min Top speed: 147 km/h Average speed: 61 km/h The wife and I decided to take a longer vacation, you know, do the millennial thing and take a year off. Luckily my employer was understanding so I’m going for a sabbatical year. My friends threw me a farewell party at Lake Balaton….
Pilis mountains
It’s always good to get out of the city on a hot summer day or a lazy Sunday. Although it takes a lot of time to actually leave the traffic behind it worth the effort. From the city borders you can enter the mountains that are beautiful and have really nice narrow roads the bikers…
RILI in Austria
Distance: 1.026,70 km Duration: 13 hour 34 min Top speed: 183 km/h Average speed: 75 km/h Sorry, no photos for this post, as the Austrians are weird like that… It’s forbidden to take videos and photos there to avoid violating their rights. Day 1. Getting there As always with the organized trips, getting to the meeting point is a…
Transylvania – The first long trip
Distance: 2.663,28 km Duration: 42 hour 53 minAverage speed: 62 km/h A lot of firsts here. I just bought my new motorbike after the accident and this was my first trip abroad on a motorcycle. I was so nervous before we started this trip that I had to go to the toilet like 3 times before the morning coffee….
A Rider's Tale 