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2 Men, 2 Bikes, 1 Adventure

Midlife Morocco is the blog of Justin & Ian. Two Guys in their "Midlife" with a dream to leave their business and family lifes for 1 Month in April 2013 and do something completely out of their comfort zone.

Follow their Blog from the preparation, what bikes to take, what equipment to take, what roads to take, as they go on their Adventure into Morocco.

Marco Polo's legendary journey overland from Xanadu in China to his home in Italy has fired the imaginations of travellers for 700 years. Even today, traversing the 20,000km Silk Road between Europe and the Far East is a perilous undertaking. But it sounded like just the challenge for Wellington economist Gareth Morgan and his intrepid wife Jo.

With five friends, they set off to travel the ancient route by a very modern mode of transport — motorcycle. Starting from the historic port of Venice, the Silk Riders crossed some of the most remote, inhospitable and politically unstable terrain in Eurasia, from the Balkan states, Turkey and Iran through various 'stans to the isolated western reaches of China, and along the Great Wall to Bejing

Daily blog and photos of my trip down the east coast of Africa, London to South Africa in 2010 on my BMW F800GS.

Two up on a Transalp 650 - Scotland to Mongolia and back

Phillip Gales and Andrew Hitchings. Fundraising for a veteran's non-profit organization via a post-MBA graduation ride from Buenos Aires to Dallas, TX.  June-July 2013.

Follow my adventure through Africa. 

Read about my travels and meandering thoughts.

I will try and give as much info as possible about road conditions, visas, people and how to plan an overland adventure for rookies like myself.