Horizons Unlimited Souk

Quick links

• "The Achievable Dream - How to ride around the World, from the next country, to the next continent..." DVD now available! "I have just completed viewing the DVD - it is fantastic." "You should issue a health warning with the DVD - it leads to extreme bouts of itchy feet and restlessness! :)" "Absolutely superb - really inspirational and useful."

• T-shirt AND Stickers - This is your last chance to get a genuine HU t-shirt for this year - Ride Your World! Due to our t-shirt supplier miscalculating the numbers, we actually have extra t-shirts in stock from this year's meetings. So, if you missed out on getting your t-shirt at the meeting, or if you got a cotton t-shirt and were wishing you'd opted for an uber-cool sweat wicking synth t-shirt, now's your chance! We're fast running out. T-shirt AND Stickers - order here!

• HU 2008 Calendar - the 2008 calendar is now available! Check it out and get your copy now, for some terrific travel inspiration! The calendars are available through CafePress, and the price is US$24.99 plus postage. The cost to us from CafePress is $14.99, and we make $10.00 profit, which we split with the photographers.

• Colorado Travellers Meeting DVD - what's an HU Travellers Meeting all about? Here's a great sampler, including presentations from travellers. Check it out now - there's even a trailer!

• Check out these HU affiliates. When you purchase from these stores and from HU's web site, we get a bit of the profit, and each small amount goes a long way in keeping this web site running. Thank you!

• WHY do we ask for donations?

Skip the explanations and go directly to the Souk:

• Horizons Unlimited Online Souk (on CafePress)
• Calendars
• See all slogans that are available.
• Pricing and Membership Fees (all the gory details)

• Don't want to order online? We can do it for you if necessary.
• Don't need a t-shirt, but want to contribute? We now have four (4) ways to contribute!
• PayPal
• Check / money order
• Amazon Honor System
• The Souk: products

What's it all about (and what the heck is a souk, anyway?)

In response to popular demand, we've opened a Souk (store) using CafePress services. We've chosen them because we can sell products with logos without having to stock the products, print the slogans, deal with the credit cards and billing, or ship the products! Maybe we'll even have time to go for a ride!

What's a souk? A souk is a marketplace or bazaar in northern Africa or the Middle East. We just thought it was a more interesting word than 'store'.

We've agonized over the pricing for these products. The cost to us is not cheap (CafePress doesn't do all that work for free!) and we're just as cheap cost-conscious as you are, so we wanted the prices to be as low as possible. On the other hand, this represents an opportunity to make a few dollars to offset our costs and time.

For those who may not be aware, Grant works full-time+ on the website / bulletin board / e-zine, and Susan part-time. (Her full time job enables the site to keep going - and feed us!) Grant has been full-time on it since 1998. We are not a big multi-national company, just two people who love motorcycle travel and have grown a hobby into an unpaid labour of love.

You've told us how important this site and it's Community is to you. We intend to survive, and have been trying to figure out just how for a long time. Currently, the site is funded approximately equally from advertising, motorcycle travellers meetings and now sales of DVDs, t-shirts and other products. We are very grateful to the advertisers we have, and hope to attract more, so if you know anybody who should be advertising with us, please send them around! Ad rates and information here. Coming to a Horizons Unlimited meeting is a great way to meet fellow travellers, and your meeting registration fee also helps support the website. Response to the Achievable Dream DVD sales has been very encouraging, so we're planning to produce several more this year!

Through CafePress, we also have a voluntary membership scheme, which provides visible recognition for supporters, and something you can wear with pride.

Pricing and Membership Fees:

We've decided to have three levels of pricing.

Click on your favourite slogan below!

Member Benefits

Currently there is no requirement to be a member to access the website, the HUBB or to receive the monthly e-zine. For now, what you get for your membership contribution is our sincere gratitude, good karma and knowing that you're helping to keep the motorcycle travel dream alive.

What we are able to do, as a result of the major upgrade to the HUBB software, is to provide additional features which people who voluntarily contribute to the site can use, such as having more space for posting pictures, since people have asked for that, especially if they don't have their own website. The table below summarizes the HUBB benefits for members. Please note that we have taken nothing away from the privileges Registered Users have, we have just added additional privileges for contributing members.

HUBB User Privileges:

What if I don't want to order online?

You can order through us if you don't want to order online for any reason.

Check out the products in the store, decide what you want, including the sizes. You can then send your order directly to us by e-mail, specifying what items you want with which slogan, and the sizes, plus your mailing address. We'll let you know the total cost, and you can pay by PayPal or send us a check or money order.

We'll do the order through CafePress, who will ship it directly to you. For our overseas members, we can accept checks or money orders in Sterling, Euros and Canadian $, in addition to US$. (What can I say, we've lived in a lot of places and have a lot of bank accounts ;-)

Product Range

CafePress has only a limited range of products currently available, (but are continually adding more products to the range). We know you also want black or brown t-shirts, cause that's how they'll look a few days out, but CafePress only does white and grey so far. And the titanium mugs will have to wait for awhile, till we see how much demand there is. So get over there and buy stuff! And if you don't see something you want, let us know!

What if I just want to contribute?

Some people have told us they don't need any more t-shirts or mugs, but they'd still like to show support. That's fine too. You can send a check for any amount, in US$, C$, UK£ or Euros. (As I said, we've lived in a lot of places and have a lot of bank accounts ;-)

Please make the cheque payable to Grant Johnson, (NOT Horizons Unlimited!!), and mail to your closest address below:

USA or Canada	UK, Europe or other international
Grant Johnson 101-1184 Denman Street Box #229 Vancouver, BC V6G 2M9 CANADA	Grant Johnson, Suite 621 24 St. Leonards Road Windsor, Berkshire SL4 3BB UK

All contributions will be acknowledged and gratefully accepted. If you later decide you do want an item from the store, let us know and we will arrange it.

PayPal

NOTE you can use your Amex, Discover, Visa, Mastercard, e-Checks with PayPal - you do not need a PayPal account. And of course you can contribute any amount you wish in your preferred currency (or PayPal will convert automatically if you use a different currency):

USD $	GBP £	Euro €

New to PayPal? Sign-Up here.

You can now contribute to Horizons Unlimited via PayPal (just click the PayPal button above.) PayPal is now owned by eBay and is the official payment method on eBay. Sending money with PayPal is free to you, and costs us less than Amazon Honor System. You can send money to anyone with an email address. PayPal is secure - your financial information is never shared with us, and there's no risk of checks getting lost in the mail.

PayPal supports sending and receiving payments in five currencies: U.S. Dollars, Canadian Dollars, Euros, Pounds Sterling, and Yen. Paypal has over 30 million members worldwide, in 38 countries. Residents of most European countries, Canada, UK, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore can send money and withdraw money to local bank accounts.

All contributions will be acknowledged and gratefully accepted. If you later decide you do want an item from the store, let us know and we will arrange it.

Amazon Honor System

You can also contribute to Horizons Unlimited via the Amazon Honor System. Amazon.com, arguably the best known online retailer, has over 29 million customers, and is very experienced in online transactions. We've been buying from them for years.

You can become a Member with a $20.00 contribution, or a Gold Member with a $45.00 contribution, but any contribution is greatly appreciated.

To contribute $10.00, click below	To become a Horizons Unlimited Member ($20.00), click below	To become a Horizons Unlimited Gold Member ($45.00), click below

Please Note: Amazon has a secure server, and a strict privacy code.

In fact, the only way we will even know you've contributed is if you choose to tell us by clicking the Send info button on the Amazon thank-you page.

Then Amazon will provide us with your name and e-mail address so we can add you to our Members list and change your status on the HUBB. Please also note that Amazon will not provide your credit card number or information or your address to us under any circumstances. More info on the Amazon Honor System.

As always, we are very interested in your thoughts, so if you have any comments, ideas, etc on the Souk, please let us know!

Other Information

If you're wondering about all this subscriber stuff, and fees for online content, here's a few links of interest.

Libera Manifesto - The Libera Manifesto intends to speak for those who provide something online for free. VERY good reading for all.

There were a couple more, but the sites have disappeared... :(

more to come, we're very much in progress on all this!