June 26, 2005: Korcula Island and Hvar Island The Austrian on the Honda found out the hard way that Korcula and Hvar Islands are not connected by car ferry at their nearest ends, Vela Luka to Hvar – only the passenger ferry runs that route. We met in the parking lot of Hvar town as […]
Motorcycling the The Dubvronik Riviera and the Peljesac Peninsula
June 24, 2005 The light here is superb, greying to pink and yellow and finally to a deep blue before we turn completely away from the sun. I am sitting in the courtyard of a guesthouse in Orebic at the northwest end of the Peljesac Penninsula after riding only a few hours from Dubvronik. I […]
Motorcycling the Dubvronik Riviera, Peljesac Peninusla, Korcula Island
Take the road north on the coast of Dubvronik and you’ll find yourself riding a beautifully paved road like California’s Highway 1, only Big Sur seems to be scattered out into the sea. It’s Norway’s fiords, California’s coast, it,s the Cinque Terre, the French Riviera…all I can do is compare with all my favorite places…this […]
A View of Corfu: Albania’s Adriatic Coast
The past two days in Albania have contained the most exiting and the most rewarding travel experiences and motorcycling experiences that I can remember. Okay…so I live in the moment, but what say you of putting your bike on a small ferry at the Corfu Harbor, arriving at the Albanian harbor at Saranda at 10 […]
Patras > Corfu (Greece) > Saranda (Albania)
This morning I motored out of Porto Heli and meandered back to Patras, stopping for Sunday service in an Orthodox Greek Byzantine church in a small town on the way. The church looked modern but inside it looked the way these churches must have looked since the beginning of the era – mosaics, paintings, valuted […]