Dream Adventure?

Haych

There are loads of YouTube moto adventurers now. The biggest “star” of the lot is probably Noraly Schoenmaker, a Dutch lady who solo travels the world on her motorbike, and edits her own footage, and produces all her own content, arranges her own routes, VISAs etc. And she regularly, two or three times a week, uploads her videos while on the road, she must never give herself a break. 

She makes Ewan and Charlie look like rank amateurs. She even films her own drone footage of herself riding while she’s riding!

Bit of a badass if you ask me. No offroad skills training and no hostage training etc. As a lone female traveler, often passing through some very hostile and lawless places, she’s a bit of a legend. 

Kittyfrisk

Haych said:

There are loads of YouTube moto adventurers now. The biggest “star” of the lot is probably Noraly Schoenmaker, a Dutch lady who solo travels the world on her motorbike, and edits her own footage, and produces all her own content, arranges her own routes, VISAs etc. And she regularly, two or three times a week, uploads her videos while on the road, she must never give herself a break. 

She makes Ewan and Charlie look like rank amateurs. She even films her own drone footage of herself riding while she’s riding!

Bit of a badass if you ask me. No offroad skills training and no hostage training etc. As a lone female traveler, often passing through some very hostile and lawless places, she’s a bit of a legend. 

Oooooh, you fancy her you do 

Haych

Kittyfrisk said:

Haych said:

There are loads of YouTube moto adventurers now. The biggest “star” of the lot is probably Noraly Schoenmaker, a Dutch lady who solo travels the world on her motorbike, and edits her own footage, and produces all her own content, arranges her own routes, VISAs etc. And she regularly, two or three times a week, uploads her videos while on the road, she must never give herself a break. 

She makes Ewan and Charlie look like rank amateurs. She even films her own drone footage of herself riding while she’s riding!

Bit of a badass if you ask me. No offroad skills training and no hostage training etc. As a lone female traveler, often passing through some very hostile and lawless places, she’s a bit of a legend. 

Oooooh, you fancy her you do 

Met her last year, she’s alright, like. 

Kittyfrisk

^ Damned by faint praise 

stickyfiddle

MrsF wants to do the Iron Ore Train in Mauritania. 

(this isn't her, btw)

Kittyfrisk

stickyfiddle said:

MrsF wants to do the Iron Ore Train in Mauritania. 

(this isn't her, btw)

I looked it up & it is... interesting 
Your missus is intrepid, insane or maybe both, I couldn't possibly comment 
https://againstthecompass.com/en/iron-ore-train-mauritania/

ewal

Definitely some sort of round the world trip involving boats, bikes and maybe trains. Proviso being, to go with someone else who can deal with the borders and talking to official people.

Shrews

Following this thread and took a look a the old Around the World in 80 days route. That's not an easy one nowadays!

https://en.m.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days

robgilmo

Shrews said:

Following this thread and took a look a the old Around the World in 80 days route. That's not an easy one nowadays!

https://en.m.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days

It was dooable up until not too long ago.

TTBZ

S56035 said:

I would love to spend a year in the mountains of Canada spending the summer months mountain biking and hiking and the winter months snowboarding.  There's a lot of things that would need to happen for me to be able to do that though with fitness being the most urgent :-)

I tried to do that, did a summer season in Whistler (lived in Creekside) with a working holiday visa. Made it til October so I didn't actually get to do the snowboard season, but the summer of MTB was amazing. Highly recommended! Whistler Bike Park is just the best place. 

stickyfiddle

Kittyfrisk said:

stickyfiddle said:

MrsF wants to do the Iron Ore Train in Mauritania. 

(this isn't her, btw)

I looked it up & it is... interesting 
Your missus is intrepid, insane or maybe both, I couldn't possibly comment 
https://againstthecompass.com/en/iron-ore-train-mauritania/

Yeah it looks a little hardcore for my tastes..  

But as experiences go I doubt there’s anything else quite like it! 

Kurtis

I like an adventure, but small scale. I have a young son and everything is an adventure to him 

robgilmo

Kurtis said:

I like an adventure, but small scale. I have a young son and everything is an adventure to him 

Same, wee man turned 8 a few weeks back, not old enough to do the inca trail but old enough for last minute camping trips and alien hunting in Rendlesham forest. Little boy adventures are the best!

Placidcasual79

munckee said:

This will be very tame but I’ve always wanted to walk round the coast of Cornwall, apparently takes about 6 weeks.  

Have you read that about it book - the Salt Path?

I have a mate who fancies himself as a bit of an adventurer. He keeps a load of camping and climbing gear in his boot. We were finishing work a few years ago in a sixth floor office in North Wales - the mountains are like half an hour away and visible through the window. It started to snow and my mate says I am going to sleep out on (name of local mountain that is welsh and I can't spell) - he proceeded to tell me how he would dig a snow cave and sleep in a bivouac..... I was duly impressed and concerned and asked him to check in with me later. 

That evening I embarked on my own snow adventure and walked to the Co-op in the village I live to get a Snickers and a can of coke. My mate was in there buying a 4 pack of skol. We went to the pub to watch the football and never menioned the aborted mountain mission. I thought he'd made a good decision.