Turkey, Irak, Georgia, Central Asia - August until Christmas
 

Hey guys,
I have been solo traveling from Germany to southern Turkey, where I am right now. I do believe that doing a trip is always better than not doing it due to the lack of buddies. However, as I have just been traveling for some days with a group I have remembered how much more fun it is and therefore would like to intensify my search for riding buddies for my upcoming parts of the trip.

Route
The route as I have it "planned" for now will take me from Turkey for some days into Irak, from there up to the turkish Black Sea coast into Georgia. Depending on how I feel, I might explore Armenia, before heading into Azerbaidjan (Visa confirmed - no big deal). Cross the Caspian Sea from Baku to Aqtau. From there I don't have specific plans about the route, but I sure want to spend a fair amount of time in the Pamirs. My trip will end somewhere in Central Asia from where I will fly my bike back or maybe leave it there until next year - the ride must go on

Schedule
In one word: none.
The only limitations I have are being back home by christmas and taking my time in Central Asia.

To give you a rough estimate of how a schedule could look like:
Turkey, Irak, Turkey until End of August
Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaidjan until End of September
Central Asia until mid/late December

My way of traveling could be described as a mix of backpacking and offroad adventures. I love wild camping in nice spots and exploring the remotest areas to be found. (That's why we take the bike and not the bus, right?) However, I also enjoy experiencing life of and with the locals, therefore don't necessarily need to be on the bike every day, especially when I like a place. Guess that's how most overlanders roll.

About Me
I'm 28, from Germany and after having completed flight training I'm about to start my job as an airline pilot in January. Pretty relaxed on quite everything, interested in photography and until now keeping friends and family updated with a small website and some GoPro videos. As I said, I ride for the joy of enjoying nature, landscapes and people. Not riding to break any records or keep up the miles/day.

Contact me if this sounds interesting to you, even just for parts of the route or just for a short meetup/day trip.
See you out there!

I'll be in Georgia late September and Armenia early October. I'm old and infirm, plus I'll be riding rented bikes, so who knows where I'll end up? But if you fall behind schedule maybe we'll cross paths--first beer is always on me.

Mark

There's always the chance of falling behind schedule when there is no schedule :) Plus the beers on you do sound great :D

i'm truly intersting for your report of iraqi kurdistan, want to go there next year from Iran to Turkey
thanks