The Dom way round: Ripley HUBB meeting

Monday, 28 June 2010

Ripley HUBB meeting

What a great weekend. 600 like minded bikers and some great presentations. I'm in awe of people like Tiffany Coates, The Forwoods,Grant and Susan, Ted Simon to name but a few. I really enjoyed my weekend and even enjoyed doing my presentation. I picked up a few tips and am now as ready as I'll ever be for this trip.

I even had a chat with a guy who's done a trip on a BMW 1200GS and has offered to show me what might go wrong with my bike. Fantastic, and an opportunity I can't miss.

Four weeks to go, but to be honest, I'm half way to Alaska already. MotoQuest have bought all the little extras I asked for and have serviced the bike. I bought a helmet (Shoei Multitec) from The Motorbike Shop in Anchorage and now have everything I need. My "to do" list has got shorter and shorter. The final thing is to buy bike insurance through "progressive" which I shall do this week.

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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!!!