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On the road for ... 1 year, 8 months and 14 days

 

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                Next stage : SPAIN - March 2008  

Current Position : Béni-Mellal, sky-diving in Morocco

On Mars 15th, 1997, after skydiving with friends on the Moulin Blanc beach in Brest, I took my bike "Magic. 24044kms and 333 days later, I came back to my starting point. The earth is actualy round and magnificient. But it is fragile tto. It is not dangerous, it's the unknown that implies fear. I was specially touched by the russian welcome all over this huge Siberia. This name means goulag and sadness for us in the west but it means a real pleasure for me.

9 years left for this trip but I never forget. There is life before and life after. Every time I see a globe, I wonder how it can be so small I can go round the world by bike.

Magic is impatient to set off again, it is now decided : we leave again on june, the 10th! It will  be ready, so I will. We are A nous les grands espaces, le vent, le soleil, la pluie, sans savoir le matin où nous serons le soir. We are going to ride on this planet without a sound, proud of our wanderer's way of life.

  • Tizi.N.Test, Marrakech (18/02/2008 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    What a funny name for a mountain pass! Mr Test was a French engineer who was the first one to go through the pass, with 2 meters snow legend says. No snow this time because dryness is strong: it ...
  • Taroudant, a fortified city (14/02/2008 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    I left yesterday with relief the coastal road where traffic was growing more and more approaching Agadir and I’ve redirected my way to the Inside of the territory. Wind has disappeared, pedaling ...
  • Gone with the wind! (10/02/2008 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Yesterday again a terrible Eastern Wind between Guelmin and Sidi-Ifni. Front wind and Back one, we can manage but that kind of wind, no, it much more difficult especially with bags on the side. ...
  • Desert end (08/02/2008 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Wind has never given us a rest! For 5 days, I ride with Bruno from Nancy, who is riding across Africa from South to North. We can thus reunite our efforts with 2-km relays to battle this terrible ...
  • Train Zouerat-Nouadhibou (31/01/2008 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    I have took this train one week ago to come back on the right way after leaving toward Atar in the North-East, the values of my bicycle traveling trip are safe ! Choum must be the biggest train ...
  • Come in Mauritania! (21/01/2008 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Such a burden ! this wind coming from the North-East is terrible, 10 hours biking each day and only 100 km done with sand every where flying with the wind. In the other direction, it 25 km/h ...
  • Mauritania (15/01/2008 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    3 days ago, I’ve taken a pirogue across Senegal River just before the night. I am taking a picture of people inside but there are veiled women on board. Argument with a man who would like to take ...
  • From Dakar to St Louis (11/01/2008 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    The lion and the baobab are the symbols of Senegal, I haven’t seen any lion for the moment but hundreds of baobabs along the way. We usually compare this tree of 1000 yrs to an elephant, his skin ...
  • Guy de Tivaouane (10/01/2008 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Tivaouane, a Muslim city, 1st step before Dakar 3 days ago. I arrive late at night after fighting against the wind face to face. I’ve been to the police stop to check where I could sleep. Only one ...
  • Magis is fixed up, let's go! (07/01/2008 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Magic has its arm plastered but it should be stronger than it used to be! Thanks Alain for working till 2 am the other for the bicycle to be sent asap. I’ve improved in mechanics, now I know what ...
  • Goree Island (05/01/2008 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Gorée, very small 28 ha island close to big Dakar harbor. Colorful houses, flowered streets, we can hardly imagine that his island was the departure point of the biggest deportation of human ...
  • Sad cancellation (05/01/2008 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Fear, such a bad advisor, has won again. Terrorists have won and will continue. African people are going to lose a lot but no one care. People can be opposed to this DAKAR race but it has existed ...
  • Outburst in Dakar (03/01/2008 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Magic arrived yesterday night but the harm done is too bad for the bicycle to take the road strait away now. Alain will make a new piece urgently and Monique will send it by DHL in 3 or 4 days so ...
  • Dakar (02/01/2008 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    I arrived yesterday night in Dakar , Magic is not there yet. I’ve been told he ended up in Madrid . I hope I will receive the bicycle tonight. Thank you Alain and sorry to need your help to send ...
  • Hotel or Motel (31/12/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    To spare some time in an airport … A few weeks again, I asked the manager of a small restaurant what is the difference between a Motel and a hotel ? She looked at me, with a bit of anxiety: “but ...
  • Recife and Olinda (30/12/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Recife , the most east city of continent and Dakar the most west city of African one, this is the smallest trip to go across Atlantic . Recife is a huge harbor and a 3 million industrial city; the ...
  • Dear Magic is tired (28/12/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    So sad to pull apart Magic with the help of Alex and Guilherme, my mechanic garage volunteers from Sao Paulo ! It suffered a lot recently from the Andes and corrosion has done a lot of harm with ...
  • Closed to Recife (27/12/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Yesterday morning at 11h38 ( !), we went through the cap of 40 000 km. It will be a trip all around the earth at the , we stopped on the side of the road, Magic has been treated with some flowers ...
  • Salvador, whouahhhh! (16/12/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    What a city, 200000 volts! Congratulations to you, Black people, you came here as slaves but now this 2.4-million city is yours, full of your culture all around the streets! Music, dance, songs, ...
  • Black is black (16/12/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Black is the color of the North-East of , when I see a white man, I think “who’s this man, he has a strange appearance”. It’s a really poor area but so touching! The favelas of Rio are 5 stars ...
  • On the way to Salvador de Bahia (07/12/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Leaving Rio was quite a challenge, with a bridge of 14 km (forbidden for bikes). I had no choice but to go through as it was the only to cross the bay. Hopefully a security care stopped me and ...
  • Rio De Janeiro : Viva Brazil ! (30/11/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    First of all, big thanks to Jean-Pierre and Elizabeth for this dinner at my arrival. JPB will come back with my camera, 400 g useless weight. After a first disappointed contact with Copacabana ...
  • From Sao Paulo to Rio (29/11/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    400 km through condor road and 600 km through earthling road stand between these 2 little villages of 20 and 12 millions inhabitants. Going out Sampa was more difficult than the way in. I was in ...
  • Sao Paulo (22/11/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    While riding further north from Curitiba , I’ve met progressively . Banana and coconut trees replaced maze and soja fields, colors have become more matt, people more spontaneous and I’ve finally ...
  • Closed to the Atlantic (17/11/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    I have just arrived in Curitiba 90 km from the Atlantic coasts, I can’t see the ocean yet but I can already feel the fresh and humid wind coming from the East. I didn’t get use so well with the ...
  • Welcome Lana! (14/11/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    When I saw a picture before she borne, I was sure to be the grand father of a second little boy, but not, it is a little pretty Lana ! Welcome on our beautiful earth, I will see you only in 5 ...
  • My 2 good stars (29/10/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    More than 64 000 km on the roads in more than 40 countries, brushed (but not touched) by thousands of cars, trucks of all sorts, I’ve been told many times that I am protected by a good star. ...
  • Viva la democracia ! (28/10/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Today it is the presidential elections in Argentine. The night has been quite lively in SAEN PENA, the city of Chaco where I’m located. Not so much suspense though: Christina Krishner-Fernanadez, ...
  • Bye The Andes (22/10/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    I’ve arrived in Salta , 500 000 inhabitants, 1200 meters high. With a lot of emotions, I’ve gone down the Andes, I looked back a few times … I will miss altitude after 2 months between 3500 and ...
  • Leaving the Andes, what an adventure (19/10/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Since I left San Pedro De Atacama, I live with survival mode…. I never stop leaving the Andes and it has clearly been the most difficult part of my tour so far: a road in very bad condition with ...
  • Atacama desert (12/10/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Yesterday night I reached San Pedro De Atacama, a village like "oasis" with 5000 inhabitants in the middle of desert with same name, after 110 km without any village since Calama.San Pedro has ...
  • Uyuni's salar (10/10/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    South West of Bolivia is really the end of the world! A week out of time, no more paved (asfalto) roads but only unperfected (ripio) tracks that have destroyed me… It was Gobi desert with Bolivian ...
  • Coca yes, cocaine no ! (01/10/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    « Coca yes, cocaine no ! » that’s the main idea of Evo Morales, the current president “andinos” of . A discreet guy, he’s not as loud as his good friend Hugo Chavez ( president) and Fidel Castro ...
  • La Paz, Bolivia (33200 kms) (26/09/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Yesterday morning, I passed across the border between and , 5 minutes for paperwork with smile, if only all continents were like South America ! is twice the size of with only 9 millions ...
  • Altiplano and Titicaca (23/09/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Amazing, almost 400 km totally flat between Cusco and Titicaca lake.It is the ALTIPLANO at 4000 meters high! The air density is 2 times weaker than at the sea level. We can feel the air is not so ...
  • A great trio (12/09/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Union is power, that is true for cycling as well ! Since the 1st day on the crazy road, I met Yukito et we cycled together, we met Marcos a bit later “the tall Swiss guy” who joined our ...
  • Great Cordillera (04/09/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Ayacucho, 140 000 inhabitants, 2750 meters, churches everywhere, in the middle of Andes (in the middle of ). The area is difficult to access and has kept its charm and natural. It used to be the ...
  • Unrelenting Cordillera (28/08/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    Last Saturday, I left Lima under a dark and dirty fog, since a paint manufacturing unit had been on fire since 1 am in the North of the city with flames over 100 meters high, no more GPS ...
  • School in Lima (24/08/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    My intensive Spanish course is completed in Lima and I will continue my way tomorrow morning. Quite happy of the results, I can have a short discussion and it will able me to improve on the way. ...
  • Lima ... the birds came back (19/08/2007 publié dans : unautretour-en )
    The pigeons sing again in the parks of Lima , that is the sign that the calm has come back under earth. The birds left the city 5 hours before the seism. The condors were flying in the sky to ...

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