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New Zealand: Mount Cook and the Blue Lakes

Nov/Dec '21 Premium Content

New Zealand: Mount Cook and the Blue Lakes

My goddaughter Beth was getting married in New Zealand. What better excuse could there be to do that South Island motorcycle trip we had so often dreamed of? After a long flight from Vienna with a jet lag-busting layover in Singapore, we arrived in Christchurch. We met up with Paul

Riding Motorcycles in Southeast Australia

May/Jun '17 Premium Content

Southeast Australia

To experience as many different environments as possible, in only three weeks: this is our mission. What better place to attempt such a journey than Australia, a beautiful and largely unknown country with a population of only 24 million people. Aboard an R 1200 GS, I’m joined by a

World Travelers: Australia Coasting Down Under

Jan/Feb '14 Premium Content

World Travelers: Australia Coasting Down Under

The arid air of Western Australia tugs at the peaks of our enduro helmets, and we’re about to change worlds. Behind us is red Martian dust, ancient history, and beautiful isolation. Easing off the throttle, we bounce from our sandy track onto the asphalt and enter the modern world

Australia's Outback: The World's Longest Shortcut

Nov/Dec '13 Premium Content

Australia's Outback: The World's Longest Shortcut

I’d commented to Lisa that I wanted a ‘big’ ride. “I need some dirt, sand, raw beauty, and a little danger. Well, just enough to shake me up a little,” I’d continued naively. I should have known better. We are perched on the northeastern coast of the world’

The Great Ocean Road

Jul/Aug '07 Premium Content

The Great Ocean Road

I love Aussie meat pies. Like Vegemite, they're a staple in the Australian diet. But I also discovered recently from Food Standards Australia New Zealand that the ubiquitous pie may contain any of the following: beef, buffalo, camel, cattle, deer, goat, hare, pig, poultry, rabbit, sheep and/or

New Zealand: The Land of The Long White Cloud

Jan/Feb '06 Premium Content

New Zealand: The Land of The Long White Cloud

In a state of complete mental exhaustion at the airport in Auckland, I refuse to believe what the voice at the other end of the telephone line is saying: "You wanna collect two motorbikes from us? Shipped from Australia, you say?" An ominous, long silence follows. "I&

Australia: From The Snowy Mountains to Chilli Beach

Nov/Dec '05 Premium Content

Australia: From The Snowy Mountains to Chilli Beach

The clear icy waters of the Snowy River are framed in yellow leaves and the nearby ski slopes of the Snowy Mountains wind through the wooded hills. It's the end of May and winter knocks on the door in the southern hemisphere. To escape the cold, we'

Australia: An Outback Excursion

Sep/Oct '05 Premium Content

Australia: An Outback Excursion

I don't know what came over me. What on earth was I thinking? After one year spent traveling across Africa and its numerous border crossings, I had become an utterly cynical creature of habit, all too used to victimization at the hands of frontier officials. Those hands, I

Riding the Royal Road: Australia's Princes Highway

Jan/Feb '05 Premium Content

Riding the Royal Road: Australia's Princes Highway

The Hume Highway is a one-day straight shot of superslab, notorious for the fleets of truck convoys thundering over its tarmac, their drivers reputedly addled by sleep deprivation and amphetamines. Aussie bikers call it the "Gloom and Doom," and avoid it like warm beer.Then, there's

New Zealand: Canyons and Water Crossings

Nov/Dec '04 Premium Content

New Zealand: Canyons and Water Crossings

I don't like heights and what stood (actually, swung) between us and the other side of the 450-foot-deep canyon was a single-lane wooden suspension bridge that appeared to be doing the Mambo in the high wind. Ah, New Zealand, the land where bungee jumping originated, where some extreme

Australia: Tassie-Mania!

May/Jun '04 Premium Content

Australia: Tassie-Mania!

Complacency can kill. I'm accelerating away from a gas station near Wynyard on Tasmania's A2 north coast road when I see a "ute" - an Aussie pickup - heading straight for me on my side of the road. For a second I'm

Australia: Queensland and the New South Wales

Mar/Apr '03 Premium Content

Australia: Queensland and the New South Wales

A normal day in our office begins with a check of the e-mails. Recently a pleasant surprise popped up when the first message displayed announced that everything was ready for my trip in Australia. Organized for journalists by Twin Blue Motorcycle and called the "Northern Tropics" tour, it