Hi Treffen.. Thanks for the reply.

I've done quite a lot of travelling. Especially by bike. All over the world. It's not that I need the safety net of following tourist trails. Quite the opposite in fact.

I don't see the difference with researching on the HUBB and your method of researching books down the library. Apart from the fact that information here is FAR more specific, up to date and written by like minded folk.

Surely by reading books you're just following the advice of the authors and taking inspiration from other peoples ideas. I too read books, study maps and just take a gamble on random places.


I'm not (nor does anyone else here really) ask for guided step by step routes.

I'm asking for cool places to visit, hot spots, hidden gems, bike friendly hostels, people to ride with etc. Also things to avoid like bent cops, closed borders etc. The kind of information that only the hubb can provide.

I've only got two months and limited funds. Riding round a boring region or a violent expensive city hoping to find something good to is not the best use of my time.... Or money.

The BEST places I've ever visited are the places that fellow travelers have scribbled on my maps or people here have messaged me. And it works both ways. It's a sharing community.

Sure, there is a lot to be said about just following the breeze or throwing a dart at the map. You can find a lot of cool stuff by accident and I've done a huge amount of that in places you can't even imagine. You can also miss a hell of a lot too. I've been through whole countries and had people asking me at the border " What did you think of those ancient ruins in the hidden waterfall on that abandoned beach" etc.

To what I reply "Oh f**k, I had no idea they were even there"

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