Russia and back home

We left Rene battling a windstorm in Mongolia, just before the border with Russia. For this, our last update of Rene’s momentous trek around the world, his plan was to ride through Russia to the east coast port of Vladivostok from where he...

20/11/2008 | 12 comments | Read more...

Mongolia

Rene's penultimate leg on his way east and back to North America - Mongolia. Landscape, people and the weather make it one of the highlights.

30/10/2008 | 6 comments

The Pamir Highway

Rene heads through Tajikistan on the famed Pamir Highway and its many mountain passes and peoples.

09/09/2008 | 5 comments

Iran and the Stans

Rene heads out of Pakistan, into Iran with the hope of getting to the 'Stans to the north. Only thing is, his carnet says otherwise.

20/08/2008

The Middle East

We catch up with Rene as he spins his wheels in the Middle East, unable to find a way out. 

23/07/2008

Slow boat to Yemen

“Two Belgian Tourists and Two Yemeni Guides killed by Al-Qaeda”. The news told the story of a convoy of five Land Cruisers in a remote but well-known tourist valley. The gunmen were hidden behind a parked Land Cruiser on the s...

10/04/2008 | Read more...

Lake Turkana Adventure part 2

Last week we left Rene at the Koobi Fora Museum with not enough fuel to get to Ethiopia on the planned route …

31/01/2008 | 7 comments

Lake Turkana Adventure part 1

Guy and Marleen are a couple of travelling Belgians that I've been bumping into all the way up Africa. They used to have a BMW 1100GS that they'd ride two-up through many of their tours of Africa and South America but for this altogether tougher...

24/01/2008 | Read more...

Tanzania - Kenya

Crossing the Equator, Rene heads into Kenya but has to take a rest to get the BMW fixed.

30/11/2007

Malawi - Tanzania

Rene heads north out of Malawi and into Tanzania where he finds good food but also suffers a couple of flat tires ...

31/10/2007