Personal passions: motorcycle travel
Yesterday in GCDS there was a session about personal passions. First Jono Bacon gave a talk about the Burnout Cycle, and then various community members talked about what they do outside the sphere of hacking: running, cooking, building experimental airplanes and so forth.
I gave a quick talk about adventure motorcycling, speaking about my 2004 trip around the Black Sea, and briefly mentioning the Death Monkey trip on 50cc mopeds from Helsinki to Gibraltar.
You can find pictures from the Caucasus trip on Flickr and my travel log on Routa MC.
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