5 years on the road by motorcycle

Hello everyone! ✌️

I just realized I’ve been registered on VoyageForum since... March 28, 2012 😊. Yet, I’ve barely participated until now.

August 1, 2026, will mark a somewhat special milestone: 5 years on the road.

We left Switzerland on August 1, 2021 with a simple idea: let chance decide our direction. We placed a bottle of wine on a world map, spun it... and it chose our first destination.

A year later, when we arrived in Morocco, we faced a new choice: continue toward Africa or head to Asia. This time, a tarot card game made the decision. Since then, we’ve tried to keep this journey as open to the unexpected as possible.

Today, that adds up to about 120,000 km, 46 countries, and over 1,800 days on the road—mostly by motorcycle, but also by sailboat, train, bus, hitchhiking, or on foot when adventure calls.

Our guiding thread isn’t just the motorcycle, but service exchanges. Instead of simply passing through countries, we try to stop regularly to lend a hand to the people we meet. So far, that’s about 600 days of volunteering.

Over the years, we’ve:

renovated a house in Croatia made earth bricks in the Moroccan desert helped sail a boat through the Greek islands looked after houses, dogs, horses, a camel... and lots of other animals worked at a street art festival in Morocco created videos for local associations and projects worked the grape harvest on the Tibetan plateau been accredited as "media" for the World Nomad Games in Central Asia

Some of the moments that have stuck with us the most include six months in China, a night spent on the Great Wall, the Pamir Highway, the Silk Road, three months in Taiwan, and the incredible encounters in the mountains of Central Asia.

We travel on Falkor, our lucky dragon—a 2014 BMW F800GS that’s been with us since the start and is starting to have some great stories of its own.

While we share our adventure on Instagram, Polarsteps, and YouTube, that’s not why we’re here. The forum’s rules about promotion are clear, and I totally get them. If I’m finally taking the time to write, it’s mostly because after five years on the road, I thought our experience might be useful to other travelers.

Happy to chat about:

preparing for a long motorcycle trip visas and borders the Silk Road and Central Asia riding in China (with or without a motorcycle) volunteering and service exchanges while traveling gear, daily life on the road... or just the unexpected moments that make long-term travel so special

Looking forward to swapping stories and hearing about your adventures too! 😊 Greetings from Thailand, and happy to chat! ✌️

Vincent, Nathalia & Falkor

Hi,

You can create articles and post your YouTube videos in them. You can also keep a travel journal. We allow links to personal websites as long as you're not selling services or anything else on them.

A lot of bikers ask for info about road and trail conditions on the forum, so your knowledge will be a huge help in answering everyone's questions. Thanks a lot.

Hello,

Thank you so much for your reply and for these details.

That’s perfect, and it’s reassuring. In any case, we’re not selling anything. Our goal is simply to share our travel experiences and, if it can be helpful, to assist other travelers.

We actually have several platforms where we document our adventure:

Instagram: mostly focused on daily photos and videos. www.instagram.com/takemeeverywhere YouTube (Vincent Weil): for now, it mainly covers our first year of travel along with a few special episodes. www.youtube.com/vincentweil Polarsteps: this is probably the most complete, with our itinerary since the start, all our stops, and over 11,000 photos. https://polarsteps.onelink.me/PGsO/pnter Our website (in English): we occasionally publish more detailed articles here, like about the Pamir Highway, transit through Russia, the Mangystau Desert, or our updates after several years on the road. www.take-me-everywhere.com

And we’d be happy to answer any questions from fellow motorcyclists! After nearly 120,000 km, mostly by motorcycle, we’ve been lucky enough to ride quite a few roads and trails, especially in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the TET, the Silk Road, Central Asia, China, and now Southeast Asia. If our experience can help others, we’d be delighted.

Thanks again for your welcome!

If you have the time, don’t hesitate to keep a travel journal. The community really appreciates them, and we feature them on the homepage and in the newsletter every month.