Ain't No Pillion

One of the most common questions I get when I talk about the Americas trip we took is “How did you pay for it?”  People want to know how we were able to take off for four months and leave behind our work to travel overland by motorcycle. But I think that what most people [...]

One of the most common questions that people ask anyone who’s done any big overland travel is: “How did you pay for it?” Many people seem to have a perception that a big long-distance motorcycle trip is something that costs a ton of money, or it’s something they dream of doing but never think they’ll [...]

The most common question I get about packing for a long motorcycle trip is a toss up between: “What did you wish you had packed that you didn’t bring?” or “What did you wish you had left behind that was just taking up space?” After reading ride reports and books about motorcycle travel, I often [...]

One of the most common questions we got, before and after – and even during – our trip, was “Aren’t you worried about your safety?” And people didn’t mean ATGATT – people meant our safety from the people in the countries we were passing through. People seemed most shocked that we were traveling through Mexico, [...]

I get a lot of people asking me about how to plan for a long motorcycle trip, so it’s time this made it into the Monday Q&A rotation. The truth is that there’s no “right” and “wrong” way to do *anything* related to motorcycle travel. It’s all up to the individual’s travel style, finances and [...]