Good day australien bikers
My name is Thierry, I'm 53 years old and from Basel, Switzerland. Since january 2008 I'm living my dream going around of our beautiful planet on a motorbike. I started the jouney of my life in Mexico-City and travelled at first all Latinamerica including Jamaica and Cuba. This was my first leg. After returning to Europa and having a digesting break at home I continued the trip from Switzerland until the Philippines, following the south route. Meaning Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Thailand, Lao, Cambodia, Malaysia, Philippines. This was the 2nd leg.
I did all this on a BMW F 650 Dakar. After crossing 37 countries and doing approx. 130'000 km it was time to change the bike. So I flew back home and bought a BMW F 800 GS and startet my 3rd leg one month ago in Indonesia. The plan is to return to Europe on the north route. Meaning Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Australia, New Zealand, Southkorea, Japan, Russia, Mongolia, Kasachstan, Ukraine, Slowakia, Austria back to Switzerland. That will take another 2 years. The 4th leg will be Africa and the 5th and last leg North America - Alaska back to Mexico-City, where all begun. All in all the whole project should take about 10 years...
If you are interessted to see some fotos/videos of my trip you are welcome to visit my website or check out my facebook site:
website:
www.worldbiker.ch
facebook:
www.facebook.com/thierry.wilhelm
I appologise that the reports in my website are written in german, but the fotos are nice...
Well... and right now I'm sitting in Bali and start to prepare the transfer to Australia (Dili - Darwin). My goal is to arrive in Oz around the 1st of march, but I don't know yet when the cargo ship will be available. I have no quote yet (still waiting for a reply of TOLL Company). One of my concerns is an affordable accomodation in Darwin. I read and heard that Darwin is one (or THE) most expensive places in Australia, but maybe one of you guys have a good hint or tipp for me. As you surely know I will have to struggle with the authorities for a while until my bike will be released, but I hope to solve all the problems within 7 to 10 days (according what I read in other reports).
Your valuable informations concerning Darwin will be highly appreciated!
Besides this, of course I would love to meet some of you bikers somewhere in Oz. I will stay around 1 year in Australia and plan to travel all around and across, including Tasmania. So there is a good chance that I might show up in your region. It would be great to exchange stories and have a few together...!
It's a long time dream of me to visit Australia but I always saved it for my big trip. I never wanted to come only for 3 or 4 weeks (normal working vacation) as I it never would be enough to see Australia properly. Well, I had to become 53 to fullfill my dream - but now I'm coming and this time I have enough time to explore it thorougly!!! I can't wait to put my feet on australian soil and see all the fantastic places I've seen on fotos from others with my own eyes...
I wish you all a very happy, healthy, lucky and prosperous new year!
Cheers from Bali
Thierry