After spending 2015 working, Julie and I flew back to Melbourne to spend Christmas with family and to be reunited with our faithful bike. It felt wonderful getting back on our old steed, the bike that has taken us through so many memorable countries and places, it was just unfortunate we were riding in so much traffic in inner city Melbourne, it was no fun at all! On Boxing Day we headed out of the city and into the country to visit friends, this was more like we...

As always when we leave a country it is a little sad and after spending six mounths touring around North America it was very sad. We had met so many great people and made so many friends, it was starting to feel like home! Just a couple of stats before I go on; This year we visited 24 states of the US and three provences of Canada, giving us a total of 35 states and 7 provences. We clocked up 40,000Km this year, giving us a total of nearly 53,000Km in North Amer...

It was a long and lonely flight back to Australia for both of us, Julie had flown out of Denver via Los Angeles where her flight was cancelled and she was held up for 24 hours, then she had a 13 hour flight to Sydney before flying down to Melbourne. While Julie was flying to Australia I was riding back across America to St Louis where I have left the bike with a friend. While riding back to St Louis I clocked up 80,000 Kilometres and had to take the photo withou...