Posts tagged “motorcycling”
Mobile Travel Guides – still in the making
I stayed up late planning my European motorcycle trip last night. I found some amazing curvy roads in the Alps, Northern Italy, Austria and Switzerland to be specific. However, this brought up a question in my mind – something that the current GPSs can’t yet do – how do you find inexpensive accommodation in areas [...]
Applying to Iron Butt Association
View Larger Map Next weekend, I will be riding 1000 miles (if the weather permits) with a friend to apply for membership into the Iron Butt Association of Finland. I wrote about the event earlier and ever since it’s been tingling me to go for it. 1000 miles is about 1609 kilometres, but the route [...]
European Tour 2008 – first draft
View Larger Map Above is the first draft of my coming summer’s motorcycling trip. I’m planning to do a 2 week (approx.) trip through Europe. The total lenght of this trip is about 5200km and it starts and ends in Rostock. The southernmost tip of the trip is a few hundred kilometres below Barcelona. I’m [...]
1600+ kilometres in 24 hours
Last night I talked with a guy who had driven one of the saddle sore rides with the Iron Butt Association of Finland. Today I decided to dig in a little bit more to these rides. I had heard of them earlier and even thought about riding one of them. However, after watching these two [...]
Favorite trip planning websites?
I’m planning a motorcycling trip to Northern Norway with a friend that we’ll execute in a few weeks time. I was wondering if any of my blogs readers have come across any trip planning websites that might be of any use? The problem at the moment is I’m doing all this in Google Earth. While [...]