Update September 30th 2016
The Ride-of-Smiles made it back to the safe haven in Germany after 56.000 GS-Kilometers - and now comes back from celebrating with 60 supporting friends and family from the Ride-of-Smiles-Party at 1550 m altitud in the Bavarian Alps.
Friends joining us from Ucraine to Switzerland. From Berlin to Hamburg , from east to west and north to south in Germany. What a venue, what a crowd, what a band .
And best of all we even bring back more donations from the mountains - including 915 € from our friend Joergs incredible MZ-Adventure all over the roads of Germany and 1500 € all together.
THANK YOU ALL FOR INCREDIBLE 49157 € OF DONATIONS UP TO NOW !
There ain´t no THANK YOU big enough for everybody who suppported and helped along all the tough riding times out on the road.
It was your support and your smiles who kept the charityproject going when times got rough.
And it was my pleasure now to bring that smile all back to you - and to celebrate what we have achieved all together - as much as sharing some of all the intense and quite often extreme experiences between snow, bushfires, deserts and hurricanes from Canada to the Australian outback - at least with those of you I could invite to the Ride-of-Smiles-Party from the 23- 25 th of September.
Eeverybody who helped along - even if you could not be with us for long distance travelling or simply time reasons. You were with us for all you did to help others !!
It was an incredibly intense experience to have shared all this with you and the world - far away from only being easy - but intense and magic at all times
Thank you all to those who know they deserve it from the bottom of my heart
BABA
Be the change, you want to see in this world
Mahatma Gandhi
For technical limitation in Google Maps we cannot display and load the whole GPS-Tarck here, but have to limit it to the last week.
To see all progress please refer to this website and allow some loading time please
As expected flying myself into New York was not a big issue. Once after I celebrated a warm and wonderful Goodbye with my family and friends back home in Heidelberg and my as wonderful friends Hatt and Hombre delivered me at Frankfurt Airport- the Singapore Airlines did all the flying and luggage transport easy going. Maybe too easy for the start..
Am Ende meiner kleinen Abschiedsfeier mit Familie und Freunden in Heidelberg in der Nacht von Freitag auf Samstag standen nicht nur wenig Schlaf und 450 km von Pfronten nach FfM. Ein letzter Abschied von meinen Freunden Hatt und Hombre am Airport und der Flug nach New York City mit der Singapore Airlines waren ein entspannter Auftakt nach sehr anstrengenden Monaten der Vorbereitung auf allen Ebenen. Dachte ich zumindest....
Wenn der Tag 48 h , die Woche 14 Tage und der Monat 60 tage brauchen - dann ist es kurz vor dem Abflug....
When days length should double, weeks are not long enough and you wish for another month - thats when departure gets close ...
Versprochen und gehalten : Als unser Freund Uwe Schlote beim Ride-of-Smiles_Fest auf der Ostlerhütte im Oktober 2013 versprochen hat, dem Projekt eine eigene App zu schenken, konnte ich das erstmal garnicht glauben...
Schnell ist manchmal nicht schnell genug ...
auch wenn die app fast pünktlich fertig ist , braucht es bitte noch etwas Geduld mit dem Apple-Store und Google Playstore...
Am. 6. März wird es endlich wahr...die kostenlose Ride-of-Smiles-App started im Apple-Store und bei Google Play ...mehr dazu könnt ihr bald unter dem App-Reiter auf der Homepage lesen. Spannend und informativ wird das kleine Tool für Smartphones und Tablets in jedem Fall.Einige Highlights der App möchten wir Euch aber jetzt schon verraten....