June 13, 2023
Back home and why we said farewell to the Yamaha XT660R, hello to two Honda CRF300Ls.
Our Round the World Motorcycle Adventure Blog
Welcome to our travel blog. We left our home in the UK on 1st January 2018 to motorcycle round the world – indefinitely. Here are our stories from the road…
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This is our latest map as of 1st January 2023. We started in the UK and headed east towards Japan. The red line is where we’ve ridden so far and the blue line is what’s left to go. It gets a bit muddled in Africa, the Middle East and India – but we’ll figure that bit out later.
Mad or Nomad RTW Motorcycle Blogs
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.
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.
October 20, 2021
Riding round the world was never going to be easy, we expected hitches, but not an 18-month pause!
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…
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…
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…
Our Round the World Motorcycle Trip FAQ
Here’s a bunch of the most frequently asked questions we get about our RTW trip.
We left on January 1st 2018. Unfortunately, we left during the middle of Storm Eleanor, which in hindsight was ridiculous, but we had been putting our trip off so much that we were determined to go. Our first blog post sums up how bad that decision turned out to be…
READ MORE: How Not to start an adventure
We set off with no timeframe and no return date. At the time of writing this FAQ, we’re in 2021 and had been on the road nearly three years riding from the UK to Japan and then onwards through Southeast Asia. Covid had hit and put our plans on hold. So, based on that, perhaps another four, five or ten years before we get the whole way round the world – which is still our plan.
Check out the About page and take a look at our route for more info.
READ MORE: The Route
We wrote a dedicated guide just to answer this question because we get asked it so often.
Our How to Go on a Motorcycle Adventure guide is an introduction to bike travel. It explains what you need to know, how to prep and what to expect. Once you’ve had a read of that, you’ll find loads more detailed guides for specific areas of bike travel in our Guides section such as riding gear, luggage, packing, adventure motorcycles and much more.
If you’re looking to go on a round the world trip, then we also have a dedicated Guides section on RTW travel too that explains everything you need to know.
We are building this site to be a detailed resource to help you prepare for and go on a motorcycle adventure or even round the world.
But, if you can’t find what you’re looking for here, don’t worry. Just visit our Contact page and send us an email. We’re always happy to help fellow motorcycle travellers.
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Further Reading
Interested in reading more about us and our trip? Check out these handy guides next…
Who are Mad or Nomad? Find out who we are, what we’re doing and how we’re doing it here…
Wondering where we’re going and where we’ve been? So are we! Here’s what we’re doing and how we’re doing it with a nifty route map too
We’re travelling the world on two Honda CRF300Ls. Here’s why we chose the bikes and what we were on before.
Everything you need to know about preparing for a RTW motorcycle trip with links to detailed guides and more.