After five and a half months back at home in Perth we are starting to get ready to be reunited with our bike back in England. It has been quite a time back home with many highs and lows. On returning home we had one of the camper trailers that we hire out stolen from our yard, we then had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends that helped make up for that low. Then at the end of February our daughter and son-in-law moved out of our house into their very...

We have been home now for eight weeks and are heading back to Italy and our bike next weekend. We have enjoyed being with our family and friends and were able to attend the funeral of Julie's aunt while we were here. But while it has been good being home we are looking forward to getting back on the bike and continuing our amazing adventure. While visiting one of our friends he commented that we hadn't put up any photos of our campsites along the way, I must adm...

We have been back home now for a month, we left Lucca on the 3rd of March. We first caught the train from Lucca to Florence, then the 250kph Eurostar train to Rome and then a local shuttle train to the airport. We flew with Emirates on the new A380 Airbus to Dubai where we had a four hour wait before boarding a 777 for the eleven hour flight to Perth. When we left Lucca in the morning it was around 8°, when we landed in Perth it was around 38°! It took us a co...

We are getting close now! Ben is coming with us and we have just packed the two bikes in their crates, no turning back now! We have our Visas sorted for Mongolia and are still waiting for Russia and Kazakhstan. We have paid for our air fares and our hotel in Pusan, we have had some of our vaccinations and we only have 4 weeks before we are due to leave, before we know it we will be on the plane. People have asked if we are getting excited and we can say that ...

Julie and I are still in our planning stages, but everything is slowly coming together. We are booked to leave Australia on the 24th of April 2011. The bike is pretty much all sorted, we are just waiting to get a new rear tyre when they become available. We have most of our gear and equipment, but will be getting a satellite phone when the one we want becomes available. We will also be getting a SPOT emergency beacon before we leave, we are also looking at a smal...