After a delicious meal in the restaurant of the Parador of Monforte—an extraordinary hotel perched atop a hill, surrounded by the remnants of a 9th-century Benedictine Monastery, a palace, and other medieval buildings—Robb and I contemplated our route for the next leg of our journey. I savored a classic Galician dish of pork knuckle on […]
It’s funny. This WorldRider blog has over 500 posts in its archive. I started it in 2004, right around the time I began planning my life-changing, epic motorcycle journey around the world. You know, the journey that inspired my best-selling book, “FORKS.” For three years, I wrote religiously, nearly every day. I’d spend hours riding […]
Kindness from strangers turned friends is one of the most rewarding aspects of travel. Last year, as I wrapped up an epic journey that took me from Greece to Italy, Tunisia, Morocco, Spain, and finally Portugal, I found myself in need of a place to leave my motorcycle, “Doc,” for the winter. My friend Jordan […]
Do I have a guiding list of principles or rules I live by? The Caucus Mountains, Azerbaijan. As a world travel adventurer, professional inspirational speaker, and author, people often ask me for advice. Some want travel tips, others ask about technology and photography gear, and others are looking for life lessons learned from the road. […]
My Greek Adventure Blows Up In My Face In the second episode of season five of my WorldRider YouTube series, I find myself still without luggage and therefore no riding gear. What to do? I travel via taxi, bus, ship, and by foot and head to the islands. So I mend the wounds on the […]
After three years I return to Athens to retrieve my motorcycle and continue my Eastern European & Northern African adventure. It should be so easy, but it’s not. This is the first multi-episodic series on WordRider TV. Enjoy episode one and subscribe to my channel for notifications of new episodes. Watch The Video Here: Technology […]
If you’ve tuned into any news regarding travel in the post-pandemic summer of 2022, you know it’s been a rocky road for both travelers and those working in the travel sector. I am a victim of this rough start having been without my baggage for seventeen days. While waiting those days, I went to the […]
Before I landed in Greece on July 5, 2022, the last time I saw my motorcycle, the BMW F650GS Dakar (Doc), was in October 2019. I had just completed a three-month journey circumnavigating the Black Sea visiting Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Turkey before returning to Greece. I parked Doc in the […]
While Aegean Airlines and Goldair Handling tried to find and sort getting my luggage to me, I took a ferry (sans motorcycle) to the Island of Paros. It’s on this idyllic Cycladic island I planned to meet my brother and his family along with our mutual friend Paul Freitas and family. On the nearly three-hour […]
It wasn’t my plan, but as the adage pointedly goes, from Lemons we must make Lemonade. So I made the most of my time. Enjoy the video below as I share with you my whirlwind of finding fun, food, wine, people, and love in the capital city of Greece, wild Athens—while living in a fog […]
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