The Dom way round: Captain's Log. Star date one

Saturday, 24 July 2010

Captain's Log. Star date one

All packed and ready to go.I've managed to fit everything that's on my packing list into my one big bag that will sit on the back of the bike. And it all weighs 20 (ish) KGS, which is just as well as that's all Lufthansa will let me take. Am flying via Frankfurt and arrive in Anchorage late Sunday night UK time. Am camping behind motorbike shop and hope to all legal and on the road by Wednesday.

This last week has been weird as I've been ready to go and just hanging around, getting in Tracy's way! No last minute issues or problems and although I have no idea what will happen over the next few months at the moment I have absolutely no regrets about doing this. Let's hope that holds.

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David Visick25 July 2010 at 17:02
Woo! Good luck matey. Keep the updates coming!
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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!!!