Welcome

Hello and welcome to our website! We are from Sydney, Australia, and after years of planning and saving, in February 2014 we packed up and sold up to travel around the world on motorbikes with our dogs. We bought two BMW 650 GS’s in Texas, kitted up then headed south for the adventure of a life time. We've been going for 7 years now and have travelled all across North and South America, circumnavigated the African continent and explored parts of Europe. Coming up next we'll be crossing Asia and completing our adventure with a tour of all 7 states and territories of Australia. Well, thats the plan anyway!

We are tracking our story with regular blogs and videos as well as almost daily posts to Instagram, Facebook, Youtube and Twitter. So please have a look around our site, leave comments, contact us with any questions and we hope you enjoy.

Meet the team

🇦🇺 Stu 🇦🇺

Stu started life in London with his parents, two older sisters and younger brother but moved to Australia when he was five years old. He had a fairly normal childhood but he was never going to a normal adult. He left school at 16 and started a promising career in IT. But his thirst for travel grew so he joined the Royal Australian Navy. The deployments he undertook were a taste of what was out there and only fanned the flames of adventure. Stu made this round the world journey possible, his systematic approach to research, planning and implementation turns any challenge or obstacle into manageable tasks. Stu is extraordinary and unprejudiced.

🇦🇺 Janell 🇦🇺

Janell had a remarkable childhood growing up in Sydney with her Mum, Grandparents and older Sister. School and work was in Sydney with their dog, cat and birds. But come weekend or school holidays, everyone, including the dog, cat and birds, piled into the family car and drove to the farm in Jerry’s Plains where 4 horses eagerly awaited their arrival or up the coast to Yamba, the family beachside holiday house. Janells career took her into project management roles after studying civil engineering. She believes travel is the best way to learn how people around the world living in different cultures, climates and landscapes find solutions to civil problems. Janell is passionate and grounded.

🇦🇺 Skyla 🇦🇺

The original and the best. Skyla was our first love, we adopted her in Canberra, Australia, from the pound. She was a Staffy Cross, about 6 months old, and we had 7 crazy, beautiful years with her. She was a very anxious dog which we did our best to manage, the Pillion Pooch was designed to keep her comfortable and safe in the big wide world and she loved to ride. Skyla passed away in Venezuela after a noble fight with cancer. Skyla was brave and beautiful.

🇨🇴 Shadow 🇨🇴

She may be small but she’s ready to take on the World and she has a heart of Gold. Whatever her early years, she was destined to join our pack. She ran on to the road in rural Colombia as Stu was riding and was run over by the following car. She lost an eye but gained a pack that day. In no time at all she was on a plane to Florida, touring the USA, then aboard the QM2 sailing to England. She will always be 9 countries behind Weeti. Shadow is courageous and kind.

🇻🇪 Weeti 🇻🇪

Weeti is our quirky Venezuelan street dog from El Callao. She had a tough start to life being hit by a truck and further bullied by bad people. Her rescuers, Luis and Alicia, however were wonderful and never gave up on her recovery, they are the reason she walks today. Weeti was about 2 years old when she joined our pack, a month after Skyla passed. It wasn’t planned, it just happened and she rose to the challenge. Weeti is loyal and strong.

🇹🇷 Azra 🇹🇷

Azra is our turkish delight. We picked her up of the highway near the Dardanelles Strait in western Turkey. A puppy around 6 weeks with no mother or home in sight we took her with us. But before she could join our pack she had to fight for her life against Pavo Virus, a deadly virus with a mortality rate of 90% for untreated cases. Azra is full of energy and her favourite activity is unpacking our clothes bag. Watch her grow and travel.

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Iraq

Iraq

by Janell Clarke

We had conducted extensive research on the options for getting us, our motorbikes and the dogs from Europe to Jordan. Jordan had been on our itinerary since the beginning of our travels, being a very tourist friendly country with so many great ancient sites, varied landscapes and of course the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth at a staggering 430m below sea level. It was a place that fascinated us and begged us to visit.  Financial limitations had prevented us from visiting when we were just next door in Egypt back in 2017, but it was decided that it would become part of our Asia leg. Now in a slightly better financial situation, we assessed our options as follows: Shipping the bikes to Aqaba, Jordan Shipping the bikes to Israel Ride through Iran and Saudi Arabia Ride through Iraq Ferry to Lebanon and transit through the south of Syria The two shipping options were discounted immediately due to cost and practicality, had there been no other options then we would have given the d...

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Turkey & Azra

Turkey & Azra

by Janell Clarke

We got more than we bargained for in our travels through Turkey. After a few days on the Gallipoli peninsula visiting the battlefields of the Anzacs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corp) and the city of Troy our plan was to continue riding along the Mediterranean coast to stay in the warmer climates. Not far outside of Çanakale a very young puppy crossed the road in front of Janell on the motorway. It was very unusual even in Turkey to see such a youngster alone and on a busy motorway so we had to stop and check. She was so tiny, a little black fluffy (but quite dirty) ball, and appeared to be no more than 6 weeks old. Somehow she had found herself in the medium strip (wide gutter) between the two flows of traffic. We searched everywhere for her mum knowing that at her age she would still be dependent and could not have ventured far. After an extensive search of the area and seeing that she was very different to any other street dog in the area, or from what we’d seen in Turkey in ...

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Cyprus

Cyprus

by Janell Clarke

December weather in Turkey was cold and the majority of the country was covered in snow. Google Maps wanted to direct us inland via the shortest route over the mountains through the thick of it but travelling on motorbikes with our girls, we were happy to take the longer coastal route to keep to the mild climate and low elevations. The Turkish coastline was stunning and really surprised us. The water on our right was a tropical shade of aqua blue and the islands so perfectly spaced with the odd fishing settlement dotted along the way. On our left were rolling hills and we often came across these sceneries from a slight elevation, providing an optimum vantage point to really accentuate the setting. For the most part the quality of the road was up to European standards so we could concentrate on the views and not the road or traffic. All this combined with the better preserved and less visited of the “Ancient Greek” sites, Turkey quickly made its way into our top five countries and a ...

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Nordkapp

Nordkapp

by Janell Clarke

We set off on our adventure to Norway and the Arctic Circle from the UK in mid June with a tight timeframe of 2.5 weeks to go up and back, fitting into work holidays. Round trip the distance was estimated to be 8,000km with some of the most rugged and beautiful coastlines in the world. This journey along the Norwegian coast would take us well into the Arctic Circle where the snow capped mountains were illuminated by sunlight 24 hours a day. The weather however, was far from on our side with heavy rain and strong winds becoming part of our daily struggle. We set off from the UK early afternoon on Wednesday. We’d booked a late train to take us under the English Channel to France and the ride should have been an easy 4 hours. However, the rain had set in and the traffic was building on the M25, we were crawling along and starting to stress about making the train. Our goal for that first day was to reach the Netherlands but it quickly became apparent that we’d set our goals too high. We...

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