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San Francisco to Big Sur: Golden Gate, The GREMLIN Myth and a WildfiRE Closure

The San Francisco to Big Sur motorcycle trip was one of the most anticipated moments of the entire route, along with Highway 1’s most famous stretch. Except this time, one of the two didn’t go as planned. San Francisco: Golden Gate, Alcatraz, and a Family Lunch Of course we rode across the Golden Gate —

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Seattle to Yosemite: Planning an 11-Day Motorcycle Trip

This is the first chapter of our motorcycle trip from Seattle to Yosemite motorcycle trip; eleven days riding down the West Coast of the United States to reach the park. We planned the trip back in January 2026, aiming for August, right after the World Cup. There’s nothing like booking that far ahead: flight and

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Dehesas yendo por Cazalla de la Sierra en el viaje de Sierra Morena

SIERRA MORENA

March 24, 2026 I left Teruel with one clear idea in my head and my eyes wide open: to find roads the GPS doesn’t know about, the kind locals no longer use, roads that the asphalt itself seems to have forgotten. Sierra Morena motorcycle route. Curro Jiménez. Bandits. I kept half-hoping some rider on horseback

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Logo de The Silent Route, en el Maestrazgo Aragonés

MAESTRAZGO

March 21, 2026 The Maestrazgo motorcycle route. Even the name sounds like something left outside of time. And it’s no coincidence: these lands belonged to the Knights Templar back in the 13th century, with Cantavieja and Mirambel as their centers of power. Templars, castles, medieval secrets … and me, with the bike parked in the

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Volviendo de Bosnia a Zaragoza, pasando por Francia y Briancon, en el Col du Galibier

I’M OFF TO BOSNIA ON PILGRIMAGE, JUNE 2025 – Stage 2/2, The Way Home…

“Updated in May 2026 with new information about the trip preparation.” From Medjugorje to Zaragoza: 9 kilometers of misery, an unexpected Galibier, and 400 meters that nearly burned the clutch I left Medjugorje on Sunday, June 22, around seven thirty in the morning. What I experienced there stays with me. What came after — the

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