The Dom way round: May 2010

Saturday, 15 May 2010

Ticking along nicely

Not much to report. I've bought personal insurance (from Navigator travel), for £180 for 6 months. My new driving license has arrived so now I can get an IDP.

Today we went to the Kenilworth festival and Matt and Anita were they. I met Matt via the HUBB in January. They are off on a RTW bike trip, leaving later this week and live just 2 miles up the road. Here are some pictures of their Transalps. They've got a blog and I'll be following their trip as I head off on mine. They leave over land to India via Europe, Turkey,Iran and Pakistan first. Then on to Australia. GOOD LUCK!

Hello

Hi. My name is Dom and in July 2010 I rode a motorcycle (partly) around the world. I started in Alaska and headed for Panama. It took me 6 months and I covered 21,000 miles. I then shipped my bike from Panama to South Africa. I returned to the UK for February and in March 2011 I flew to South Africa. Starting in Cape Town I took three months (and 9,000 miles) to get to Nairobi.

As well as riding a bike I stopped off and did some voluntary work along the way. In Mexico I worked on a turtle rescue project for two weeks and in Costa Rica at a Sloth Sanctuary for three weeks. In Cape Town I taught for three weeks in a Primary school in a township.

In North America my wife, Tracy, came out for three weeks and also joined me for two months in Central America.

I returned to the UK in June 2011. Although I'd kept a blog (obviously) throughout the trip I honestly had no desire to try to write a book. But that changed. Within days of getting home I started writing. Then in Autumn 2011 I found out about The Ted Simon Foundation and applied to be a Jupiter's Traveller. Unbelievably they accepted me and I starting a whole new, and much more frightening, adventure... Trying to write a book about my trip.

'Gone Riding' was published in November 2013. Signed copies are available direct from me at www.domgiles.co.uk. The book is also on Amazon where you can also get the kindle edition. There is lots more information about my trip and the book on my website where you'll find links to my Facebook page and Twitter account.

I now use this blog to write about my current bike trips. In 2013 we went to Scandinavia for the summer and in 2014 we went to Romania. Summer 2015 was spent solo around the Balkans. In July 2016 I went to Poland, the Baltic and Finland.

In the summer of 2017 we went to Northern Spain and France and in 2018 we went to Ireland.

I sold my bike in January 2019!!!

The Dom way round

Saturday, 15 May 2010

Ticking along nicely

Monday, 3 May 2010

My bike!

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