Our trip to Jänkhällä Jytisee 2007 had been quite successfull and we were convinced to do the same next year until now: Today was a surprise waiting in my mailbox: Saariselän Keskusvaraamo is trying to charge from us cleaning which was not done on our apartment! We did not want …
Just saw this on the IBA Finland pages: So our latest Iron Butt Ride is now officially accepted! We managed to drive 2066 kilometers in less than 24 hours! Now we have driven SS1000, BB1500 (*2), SS1600K and SS2000K rides. Just can wait to get another one, but it will most likely …
As planned, we started our latest 16th of August 2007 from Espoo with our minds filled that we will be driving Iron Butt SS2000K (2000 kilometers in 24 hours) on the way to Jänkhällä Jytisee 2007. Start of the journey was 9:21 from Mikkelä Esso, Espoo where we filled all the forms. …
We are planning attend Jänkhällä Jytisee 2007 and on the way have one more SS1000 Iron Butt ride. Planned route is this: Start from Espoo 16th of August 10:00, then to Jyväskylä, Turku, Vaasa, Oulu, Kuusamo and end in Sodankylä where we meet some local bikers and continue to Saariselkä. In …
Our third driving day started from Duisburg after good night sleep in Hotel Novotel. Our goal was to take it slowly and drive whole day and next night to get to the Viking Line Isabella from Stockholm to Turku. We finally arrived at 06:00 to the ferry terminal after driving …
Second driving day over, we decided to cut some corners and started from Porto, Portugal and drove directly into Duisburg, Germany using this route: This route gave us 2339 kilometers driving and took 35 hours to drive! We just slept quickly for hour or so on the truck stop …
First driving day over, we managed to drive 847 kilometers through Spain and Portugal! Now we are a bit thinking to replan tomorrow’s route, but final decisions will be made on tomorrow morning during the breakfast. Aim is not to do full round through Portugal and Spain, but cut from …
Our rest in Rota, Spain is almost over, tomorrow morning we start the journey back to home. My family will fly home and we start driving rest of our journey back to Espoo, Finland. Weather in Rota has been excellent, we have been most of our time on the beach …
From Almendralejo our only goal was to be in the Jerez de la Frontera airport when my family was arriving at 10:25. We managed to drive the last kilometers with good speed and arrived at the airport 10:15 where we found out that the plane from Finland had arrived earlier …
When leaving Andorra TomTom was telling us that we are going to get lot of kilometers for this day. We decided to take the middle route instead of following the coast line which was our original plan. We drove 978 kilometers during this day from Andorra to Almendralejo, Spain. Only issue …
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