From Aubagne we started driving towards Andorra, but on the half way of the trip we started already changing our route a bit, instead of following the original plan we told the TomTom to take us directly to Andorra. This took us to really nice mountain roads with turns that …
After a good night sleep we started driving again, this time we decided that we take slowly and move to small roads. Ended up driving only 534 kilometers during the second day, but especially the first 140 kilometers from Piacenza to Genoa were really nice small roads. From there on …
Time to summarize our day trips. Our first day trip was 2656 kilometers according to Microsoft Autoroute 2007, but there is one possible error (point number 4) where our gas station receipt and GPS coordinates are giving us an location which is not really on our route… need to figure …
Finally got shortly connected and updated some route information. We left 30.6.2007 7:24 from Tallinn (number 1) and ended up driving a bit more than 2600 kilometers into city called Piacenza (number 13), Italy by 1.7.2007 20:00. From Piacenza we continued toward France and currently we are in the city of …
Less than 24 hours to go before the trip begins, almost all stuff packed and everything ready to go! This is our planned route. Route has changed a bit, but not too much. All the possible checks done to the motorbike, no major issues found so everything ok on that end. Only …
Yesterday evening I found nice utility for Nokia Series 60 phones to track and record route while driving: Nokia Sports Tracker. With this is should be possible to get our route down into mobile phone and exported into Google Earth -format to show the route on map. Only issue is …
While browsing through the Internet I found this page: https://www.bmw-motorrad.com/com/en/index.html. It has an BMW Motorrad Dealer database which can be downloaded to BMW Navigator, but not to others. Well, after digging into this for a while I managed to convert this file into tab delimited text file, which can be …
We are getting more and more ready on our plan, current route takes us around Europe, we will stay in Southern Spain for a week and then continue western side of Europe back to Espoo, Finland. Below is the map of our current planned route:
Lots of thinking and planning behind, during this and next week I will do two rounds of trial packing to see what I can carry on my bike on our trip to Rota, Can’t wait to get On the Road! Lot of people I have talked to on this have …
Had not really tried this before, but decided to give it a try, 10 045 kilometers behind. Was not really fitting into my schedules to get the bike for some local BMW dealer for maintenance and so I decided to do it on my own. And what a fun it …
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