Monthly Archives: October 2015

Oktoberfest!

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Today we headed out the 2 hours to Munich in the rain for the Oktoberfest.

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Our first stop was near the English Garden where we could walk and see some of the historic buildings nearby.

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It is not too often you see a guy riding a bike with a surfboard this far from an ocean….… Read the rest

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The Black Forest & Riezlern Austria

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Finally we are getting some better weather for our trip to ride the Black Forrest. We took a diagonal route on the small roads thru Pfullendorf and Beuron to finally end up in Baierbronn where we had booked a hotel.

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On the way in the distance we saw a huge castle on a hilltop in the distance so we had to check out the 11 th century Hohenzollern Castle.… Read the rest

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Deutsche Alpenstrasse/ The Alpine Road

From Eggenfelden we rode south in very windy conditions to meet up with the Alpine road or Deutche Alpinestrasse.

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We left Eggenfelden at almost 3 pm. We took the 304 and 306 to Inzell, the 305 to Berchtesgaden and then the 20 onto on to Konigsee.… Read the rest

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Germany Bamberg BMW, Eggenfelden, & Frey Daytona

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The mission now is fixing the fork at BMW in Bamberg and refreshing the boots at Frey Daytona in Eggenfelden. First we had to ride north to Minsk to get to the closest bridge over the Rhine. Then we took as many of the small roads as possible to get to Bamberg.… Read the rest

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Germany..Trier, The Nuburgring, and Alzey

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We woke to another stunning day for our ride west into Germany again.

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The first order of business in this tiny country was making breakfast and then to get to the shops for a sticker purchase, since this might be our only chance.… Read the rest

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Belgium & Luxembourg

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Getting up today it was finally sunny! We planned to get to Vianden Luxembourg in 318 KM. We are meeting our Malaysian friend Faizal there. He has just come from our friends Bart and Renate home in Holland. We had all originally met in Ushuaia in 2014.… Read the rest

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Germany Hartz region & Bruges Belgium

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Leaving Berlin we were now in search of insurance. We had a list of ADAC offices that do sell green card insurance. We headed south and west 129 km to Dressau-Roblau.

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From here we continued west towards the mountainous Hartz region.… Read the rest

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