How to... replace a broken seat

more than short distances seems utopian...

Odyssey to Costa Rica

Sometimes things turn out different than you thought:
Nighttrain to Amsterdam, one day in Amsterdam:

In the evening flight to London, one night at the airport and in the morning heading off to Costa Rica. After more than half-way the vulcano next to the airport in San José decides to spit some ashes into the air. Therefore the pilot turns around and flys back to London (excellent!)

Luckily BA pays for accomodation, food and provides a new flight. This one goes after one night in Hilton to Houston. Therefore I had a 10 hour sunset and the honour to fly over greenland and got to see all the glaciers

One night in Houston in Mariott and off I go to Costa Rica. Total travelling time: 95h

Bridge-special

Here a few of the bridges we were crossing with the scooter in Indo. One bumpier and wobblier than the other (some pictures Soso resp. Sosos camera)

 My personal favourite, woven bamboo on wire:

wooden planks on wire:

wood truss on concrete:

in the train once again

 Safety First inside the train

the view from the door

Sri Lanka II

A journey in train

Pretty packed on the platforms

 

inside the train it's not allowed to smork wahatever that means

sitting in the doors doesn't seem to be it because that's very common

Therfore I did it aswell so the remaining lice will be blown from my head. Had to squint my eyes for the head wind pretty heavily

Hehehe

Sri Lanka

Buenaventura VIII

Daily routine in Buenaventura: a mud-slide covers the road and impedes driving further. The road underneath got swept totally into the valley. All pictures: Claudia Hermes

Quito - Piñas

From Quito to the Buenaventura-reserve next to Piñas in 2 days - a motorcycledream on the Panamericana with a short detour through the Amazone forest.

Company car

My work car for the next 5 month and the 3 mecanics that are getting it up and running perfectly. The day after it's going to have racks for my surfboards and then I'm heading South.

Indonesia XXIX

Travelling in Indonesia means you wait 3 hours to get out of one harbour, then you cross the channel on the ferry in 2 hours before waiting another 3 hours in the middle of the other harbour to finally get on land again

a little boat cruise

Went on a boat with a few other surfers for 5 days to get uncrowded surf that can't be reached by land. Here our boat (all pics: Aaron Jackson):

and that's what we came for...

early morning surf-preparation

dreamwaves in paradise

Indonesia XXII

the swimming bridge across the wasteriver in Bogor, crossing over to the other side costs 8 cent

Indonesia XIX

On the ferry: 10 motorbikes, 2 cars and about 100 million bananas...

...and 20 horses. It took about 8 hours to load all the bananas while I was waaaaaaaaiting, because they all entered one by one. At least in the end they drove in the rest on top of the trucks

Bali-Sumba (and back)

Too far, too dangerous. That's what everybody was telling me. The most dangerous thing to me was falling in love with motorcycling. What I propably did...

Maybe that's why I had empty streets, hehe.

Waiting for the ferry

Some of my companions on the way. Just slightly loaded so they can still fit into the ferry.

Philippines XVI

Some picture from on the road. At first the ever-so-present church

and then a picture from the nightferry

Philippines XI

with the fully loaded outriggerboat to the next island

Phlippines X

18h stranded in the harbour of Liloan/ Leyte because the ferry in the background had engineproblems

Travelling on the border of dreamlike and nightmare

With such busses the travelling is done here away from the main touristroutes. Here on my way through Eastern Samar.

 5 times 200 liters of fish in plasticbags sitting next to me

 and for sure a really nice bodywork

Here's a short video: