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When life in the big city on the coast becomes too hectic and I need some time away, a romp through British Columbia’s interior...

Adventures in Paradise: Touring in the Dominican Republic

Life in the USA has become so sanitized, homogenized, standardized and over-regulated that I often feel I was born too late. Especially so if...

Sicilian Splendor: Around Mount Etna Tour with Edelweiss Bike Travel

Sure, I could find Sicily on a map, I’d seen “The Godfather” and I’ve eaten my fair share of thick, rectangular Sicilian-style pizza. But...

Six Weeks in Europe on a Bonneville T120, Two-Up

I have been my husband Bill’s pillion rider for 30-plus years, riding a variety of bikes on trips as short as just around the...

Riding a Royal Enfield Through Wild West Africa

How a little touring in England turned into the ride of a lifetime. Buy the bike you want. Never mind what anyone else says. If you love it,...

Tierra del Fuego Motorcycle Tour with MotoDiscovery

High-siding 6 feet in the air, Joaquin and his BMW R1200GS did a graceful 60-mph pirouette in front of me. Flying in front of...

MotoQuest’s Japan Three Island Tour

We knew we weren’t in Kansas anymore when the white-gloved driver briefly stepped off the airport bus after we boarded to pick up a cigarette...

IMTBike Portugal & Southern Spain Tour Review

Not all motorcycle tour companies are alike. Moreover, the tours offered by a single company typically differ dramatically in many ways. So, sitting in...

Riding The Shuswap Area of British Columbia, Canada

I am waiting at the border between the U.S. and Canada, mentally patting myself on the back. For one thing, despite the fact that...

Baja Enlightenment: Riding Mexico’s Lower California Peninsula

Our experience begins at the Tecate border crossing, a 45-minute ride east of San Diego. One by one we pull our motorcycles up to...

A Lap Around Middle Earth: Ecuador Freedom’s Andes, Amazon and Pacific Coast Tour

From the hot, humid Amazon rainforest, where we floated down the muddy Rio Arajuno in a motorized canoe and fed sugarcane to monkeys in...

The Best of the Canadian Rockies on the Icefields Parkway

You’ve heard of the legendary pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Well, the Icefields Parkway, aka Highway 93 north in Alberta,...

Québec Adventure: Striking Gold in Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Unpainted asphalt with the texture of a Parmesan cheese grater twists and undulates through the mist-shrouded spruce forest. This is prime moose country, and...

Touring South Africa’s Cape Peninsula, Big Game Country and Winelands

Arriving at Bucklands Private Game Reserve conjured up Jurassic Park déjà vu. An electric fence loomed overhead and the massive metal gate wore a...

Edelweiss Bike Travel Dishes up Nonstop Curves on the Mediterranean Alps Extreme Tour

Do you dream of feasting on tons of awe-inspiring twisting roads linked directly to one another, hour after hour, day after day? Hidden gems...

Back to Alaska—A 40th Anniversary Ride

Mosquito hordes clustered around me as I sat on my Suzuki Water Buffalo contemplating how to extricate myself from the damnable predicament I found...

Tour Review: Leod Motorcycle Escapes’ Mugello & Italian Backroads

Why should you tour Italy on a motorcycle? With the Alps in the north, the Apennine Mountains running down the middle and nearly 5,000...

Edelweiss Bike Travel Pearls of the Adriatic Tour Review

As our jetliner began its lumbering descent over Dubrovnik, Croatia, I noted from the window the contrast between a modern suspension bridge hanging by...

35 Bucket List Motorcycle Rides

We all have a bucket list of motorcycle roads we’d like to ride before we highside off this mortal coil. Here are 35 recommended...

Riding Zero Avenue in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland

I was riding my Kawasaki KLR650 on a cool, sunny March day. Mount Baker, in northern Washington State, was continuing to be elusive. The...

A Baja Encounter

Here’s what I took away from three weeks on the road, from Arkansas to the middle of Baja, California: You really have to want...

Mototouring Italian Factories Tour

Mototouring is the Milano, Italy-based outfit that has been delighting novelty-seeking riders in places like South Africa, Vietnam and all over Europe since 1994....

Around the World Trip With Edelweiss to Resume in Asia

This 63-day, 8,700-mile section will run from August 9 to October 10, 2015, with 44 days of riding and 10 rest days. Participants will...

The Italian Idyll Tour With Beach’s Motorcycle Adventures

The tree-shaded road is cut into the side of the mountain, approaching a village that has been on the hilltop for a thousand years...

2015 International Motorcycle Touring Companies

Everyone’s going on tour. The market for motorcycle tours abroad has exploded over the last few years, and now more than ever before, motorcycle...

Edelweiss Bike Travel's Touring Center Norway

First came bone-chilling rain. Then came strong, erratic wind, followed by thick fog that swallowed our conga line of BMWs as we chugged our...

Learning to Ride the Alps With Edelweiss

Riding the Alps is the dream of many a rider, but the challenge of motorcycling Europe’s famous mountain range can sometimes prove to be...

Touring Southern British Columbia on a Honda CBR1100XX

The airport security agent lingered on my helmet bag. “I’m just trying to decide whether to hassle you,” she said without smiling. “You rode...

Sport Touring in Southeastern Australia

If you go by such films as Mad Max and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Australia must seem like a vast...

Motorcycle Touring in Cuba with MotoDiscovery

As our early-morning flight from Miami descended into the Havana airport, the pilot came on the PA: “Ladies and gentlemen, we will be landing...

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