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OUR ROUND THE WORLD ADVENTURE MOTORCYCLE BLOG
Welcome to our motorcycle adventure travel blog. We left home in the UK on 1st January 2018 to motorcycle round the world indefinitely. We’re still on the road today and post our stories from the road here…
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This is our Round the World Motorcycle Route. We started in the UK and headed east towards Japan. Click the arrow in the top left of the map to see more details.
Mad or Nomad Round the World Motorcycle Travel Blogs
2025 – 2026
Africa
South Africa to Kenya
March 15, 2026
Breakdowns, sand and spares in Eswatini, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana…
February 1, 2026
We head to little Lesotho to find out why it’s called the Kingdom in the Sky…
November 22, 2025
Africa at last! South Africa marks the start of our ride through the seventh continent…
2024 – 2025
South America
Colombia to Argentina
August 17, 2025
Here’s our report on what happened after we reached the end of the road – from Ushuaia to Buenos Aires and Brazil.
July 2, 2025
Antarctica. Cold, wild, mesmerising… and easily the best thing we’ve ever done. Here’s the story…
June 18, 2025
A summary report on the 4,500-mile ride from Chile to the end of the road in South America – Ushuaia.
June 16, 2025
The Northern Mountains, Uyuni Salt Flats, infamous Death Road and legendary Lagunas…
April 18, 2025
Here’s the story of our three month, 10,000km ride chasing the Peruvian Andes…
February 22, 2025
We cross back into the Southern Hemisphere and ride to the middle of the world in Ecuador…
December 1, 2024
Colombia’s so good, it’s now one of our favourites – despite nearly riding off a cliff…
2024
North and Central America
From Canada to Panama and everywhere in between
October 17, 2024
One and a half years, 20,000 miles and 10 countries later and we’re wrapping up North America…
September 25, 2024
Rainforests, jungles, volcanoes, beautiful beaches, sloths, snakes and one wild motorcycle ride! Here’s our story…
September 10, 2024
Welcome to Central America! Here’s our ride through Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
July 7, 2024
Jungles, Caribbean islands, skeletons and sweaty camping. Belize may be small, but it packs a punch!
June 14, 2024
Welcome to Mexico! Three months and 10,000kms through a country everyone told us not to ride…
January 16, 2024
Welcome to the Wild West! We had no idea we were going to love motorcycling through the USA this much!
2023
Back on the Road
Southeast Asia to Australasia and two new bikes
December 15, 2023
We left home six years ago to motorcycle around the world. Here’s a brief recap…
October 12, 2023
Five years after leaving home to ride round the world, we have finally started our ride in the Americas!
June 13, 2023
Back home and why we said farewell to the Yamaha XT660R, hello to two Honda CRF300Ls.
June 6, 2023
We were expecting New Zealand to be good, but we had no idea it would be this good…
May 17, 2023
Riding over 5,000 miles from Melbourne to Brisbane along the Great Dividing Range is a speck of distance in Oz.
April 9, 2023
It has taken us five years to ride from the UK to Tasmania – and it was worth the wait…
April 9, 2023
From Vietnam to Australia and everything in between. Here’s where we’ve been for the last two months…
February 10, 2023
Hidden in north of Vietnam is one of the world’s best bike routes – the Ha Giang Loop.
January 13, 2023
From Borneo to Bromo to Bali – Indonesia has been a mad, wonderful, exciting, dangerous and just outright crazy motorcycle adventure.
2022
Getting Back on the Bike
Alissa gets back in the saddle and we head back to Thailand to pick up where we left off
December 16, 2022
Two years later, we’ve returned to Thailand to get our bike and continue our round the world motorcycle trip.
October 5, 2022
We tied the knot, flew to Porto and explored one of the most romantic places on Earth…
May 18, 2022
Getting back on a bike was going to be tough, but it was time to get my boots on again.
2021
On Pause
Waiting for Covid…
October 20, 2021
Riding round the world was never going to be easy, we expected hitches, but not an 18-month pause!
2020
Southeast Asia and Covid
Starting back up, riding Southeast Asia and getting stuck during Covid
September 16, 2020
Here’s what happened since our last post 5 months ago. Fair warning: it’s not exciting!
April 14, 2020
A Proposal, Covid-19, Long Necks and Lockdown. Thailand didn’t exactly go to plan…
March 11, 2020
From sleepy islands in the south to jagged karst mountains in the north, we fell in love with Laos and everything in between…
February 13, 2020
Searching for hidden temples buried deep in Cambodian forests on a motorbike is as good as it gets.
January 23, 2020
How we went from a broken leg in Nepal to getting back on the bike in Cambodia nine months later…
2019
The Big Crash
Shipping from South Korea to Southeast Asia and the crash in Nepal
July 22, 2019
Sometimes things go wrong and sometimes they go very wrong. Here’s what happened to Alissa in Nepal last April.
March 2, 2019
Five months and 5,000 miles have passed since arriving in Japan and it’s been epic. Now it’s finally time to leave.
January 1, 2019
After 20,000 miles, 21 countries and 365 days we made it from the UK to Japan. Here’s what we learnt…
2018
The Start of our Round the World Motorcycle Adventure
From the UK to Japan
November 14, 2018
We found a beautiful balance of culture, stunning scenery and history. But Japan also has a weird side and it’s addictive
September 30, 2018
Racing 4000km across Siberia to catch the ferry to Japan on a strict 10-day Russian transit visa as our bike fell to pieces was hell…
September 20, 2018
Mongolia is madness, a vast emptiness filled with the world’s most lonesome, mind numbing and incredible riding. It’s an adventurer’s playground.
August 20, 2018
We have a go at being nomadic horse riders in Kyrgyzstan. It doesn’t go well. So we take it easy instead.
August 9, 2018
We were expecting the Pamir Mountains to be rugged and raw, but we weren’t expecting the toughest rides of our lives
July 14, 2018
“Afghanistan’s dangerous, what are you thinking?” As we approached the armed guards, I wondered if they were right…
June 26, 2018
Crossing the Caspian Sea put us on the Silk Road to the Pamirs, but we have sandy seas to cross first…
June 1, 2018
Ancient relics, flaming towers, mud volcanoes, fire worshippers, forgotten villages and the lost world of Xinaliq and Laza. Welcome to Azerbaijan!
May 30, 2018
One motorcycles, four horses and a Kia Picanto in Armenia. We didn’t know what to expect from the little country…
May 29, 2018
5 weeks, 1500 miles, 40 hours of hiking and 3 countries. For the first time, our Yamaha took a back seat…
April 10, 2018
Rock houses, underground cities, hot-air balloons and some of the best hiking in the world! We’re going to miss Turkey so much!
March 15, 2018
After months of riding through snow, we reached the Turkish coast, hugged it tightly and swore we’d never let go.
February 26, 2018
Crossing the Bosphorus Bridge marked the start of our adventure in Asia. We were tired of being cold in Europe, so…
February 10, 2018
Serbia, Skulls and Skiing in the Bulgarian sun… what more could you ask for? Waiting in Slovakia for three weeks put a huge dent in our plans…
February 1, 2018
A horrific start and total bike failure five days into our world trip. It’s a long wait in snowy Slovakia
January 17, 2018
Going on the trip of a lifetime is fun – riding through a storm, running out of petrol, burning your luggage and snapping your exhaust is not…
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