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Yes! We love Megs Braap! We both follow her on Instagram, she's amazing! She also runs a women-only clinic and Neda is planning on signing up for one. Our friend in Toronto took one of Meagan's clinics when she flew to Ontario to teach, and said she learnt a lot and had a great time.

Tell these guys! https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/bloodied-men-detained-at-toronto-beach-menaced-people-with-chainsaws-eyewitness-1.5058370?cache= I think perhaps they read my blog post and took it too seriously... :oops:

Good tip, I'll check out that tire.

So, are there any downsides to these motos? Yes. When you try to tour on a dirt bike, those short service intervals creep up on you fast! The manual indicates 15-hour oil changes, but we've been monitoring the oil colour and consistency, and the bikes seem to prefer even shorter intervals than...

Okay, enough speeds and feeds, let's ride these damn things! Fortunately BC is hands-down the best place in Canada to ride a dirtbike! The western mountain ranges of the continent are our playground. Social distancing is easy when you're out in the woods and you haven't seen another person on...

So now we have dirt bikes! The primary reason for getting the 500 EXC-F and the FE 501 is that they are street-legal. The thinking was that we'll eventually convert them to touring bikes, replacing the big adventure motos that we've been traveling the world on. This about-face in sizing is...

How to Enduro the Apocalypse: KTM 500 EXC-F & Husqvarna FE 501 Come Armageddon, Come! Everyday is like Sunday -- Morrissey The global pandemic has put a pause on our travels, and we find ourselves temporarily stalled in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada. So what to do now...

As for expenses, we were very nervous about this for the first year. Especially traveling through North America, because it's one of the more expensive continents to overland through. There are a ton of resources on the Internet detailing how to live on the cheap. Common sense stuff like buying...

Thanks! Expedition Portal actually wrote up a good article about income while traveling: Financing Extended Overland Trips: How Do They Do it? The Real Story These are all of our worldly possessions after a few rounds of sell, donate, give away, throw away We're mentioned in the article...

Hi Tony, yes, we spent about a year and a half in Africa and returned to Canada for a snowboarding vacation. We were going to hit the road again this summer, but then this COVID stuff hit, so we hunkered down in BC. We just got new motorcycles and we're slowly kitting them out for when we're...

We've stayed out way too late and now we have to find a place to sleep. Neda checks online to find nearby accommodations It's after dark as we pull into a suburb on the outskirts of Hiroshima. We find a youth hostel, that's a bit more modern than the ryokans that we've been staying in lately...

Browsing through all the tourist trinkets for sale under the coloured lights of the outdoor shopping centre There's even a temple behind the shopping centre. With a golden cardboard buddha cutout! :) And of course, the line of requisite vending machines

Hopscotch over sakura petals floating on the pond This guy must be a motorcyclist. He offered to adjust my rake and ride sweep Those patio lanterns they were the stars in the sky

Sun is quickly setting as we walk around the Japanese tourist trap We're close enough to the next town that it won't matter if we ride back in the dark. Wouldn't be the first time... Might be kind of cold though... It's difficult to Samuraiz all our experiences in Japan, but I'll try to Cut...

OMG, we're such tourists! As we get closer to our destination for the evening, we come across this huge shopping centre that's decorated with all the traditional Japanese imagery. Kimonos, paper lanterns, pagodas, etc. But it's obviously a tacky tourist trap! We love it! So we stop to walk...

We've been asked about our plans for 2020:

Carps, blowing in the wind Further along the way, we cross a bridge and see dozens of these carp-shaped wind socks blowing in the wind. These are called koi-noibori and are usually put up to celebrate the national week-long holiday called Golden Week, where the whole country goes on vacation...

We rode out of Kitakyushu, heading east across the bridge back onto the main island of Honshu. The road we're on takes us through Mine City in Yamaguchi Prefecture. This plateaued area is called Akiyoshidai and is littered with thousands of limestone karst formations on the ground around us...

Dale had to take off to go to work, and we thanked him for the warm welcome and for all the information. Dale rides a Yamaha, naturally! MT-09 Tracer! We asked one of a bunch of Japanese ladies passing by to take our picture. After she did, the group of ladies also wanted to take our picture...

Updated from [url urlunfurl=false]http://www.RideDOT.com/rtw/406.html[/url] Well, the sun is shining outside, and quite brightly, as well. But this is how my day starts off: My left boot is leaking and is still a bit soggy from yesterday's ride. Plastic bag sock condom to the rescue! So...