Thirty six hours on trains, planes, buses, and automobiles and I find myself in Marrakech in fine shape to begin the Monkey Bike Adventure. I am staying at the Marrakesh Rouge hostel which is located down twisting alleys and side streets off of the famous...
Don is catching up on some stories from the Icarus back in October 2015 before announcing his latest plans f0r 2016. Never content to keep their ridiculous ideas on ground level, the Adventurists came up with the novel idea of a long distance paramotor race last year. ...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Though the bus is taking a well-deserved break in between adventures, Don is not resting on his driving laurels. He’s signed up for the pioneer Icarus Trophy in October, billed as the longest powered paramotor race in the world: 1200 miles from Washington to California. His...
7/19/14 Team Plan F launched our Mongol Rally run in London late in the day on Saturday with a midnight ferry crossing to France. We then headed to Germany where we camped on the Danube River and took a train into the city of Munich to...
Don has joined our good friend Dave Edwards and his Plan F team for a return trip to Mongolia. They left England on Saturday, July 19th and are currently traveling through Croatia on the southern route (ours was the so-called central route through Ukraine and...
The bus is at last clean, with all crumbs and unidentifiable sticky spots on the floor scrubbed away. Empty of backpacks, pillows, books, random bits of firewood and stray souvenirs, she’s sitting quietly in the yard now. Four weeks ago, we left Snohomish, WA to...
Six am Friday morning we board the bus after saying goodbye to our Colorado hosts. Thanks to Adam and Bai Perney for a wonderful place to crash and a fantastic dinner. Great breakfast burritos for the road really saved the day once we hit the...
We rolled into Fort Collins to check out the New Belgium Brewery. What a huge place. Millions of gallons of beer and the tour included all the samples we could drink. Our guide Eric took us through the whole process of making beer in a sustainable...
Golden After a couple of days in Moab, UT looking at rocks in Arches and Canyonlands, we were delighted to return to the mountain coolness of Colorado. We camped in Grand Junction our first night, then spent two nights in Golden, staying with friend and fellow...
Wow what a ride into Canyonlands National Park. Roughly twenty five miles of amazing rocks. Mostly red with some varying shades of white and black. Once in the park we all jumped off the bus at a spot labeled The Island In The Sky. Luckily...