Riding the Slow Lane Around the World - Graeme and Katrina Perkins

Graeme and Katrina Perkins: The great Ibex is found at the Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan border, the second highest border crossing in the world.

Graeme and Katrina Perkins are riding the slow lane around the world. They left Australia back in 2016 and thought it could take a couple of years to explore the globe, but it’s now seven years later and they have only made it about half way around the world. They have learned plenty, met loads of people, crossed many borders, all along the way perfecting this thing called motorcycle travel. They pack extremely light, plan ahead, and the more they ride, the slower they go.

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Graeme and Katrina on their ‘adventure bike’ circa 1984. They spent 12 months in North America, a little more than half of that time touring on this bike.

Riding through Myanmar.

Crossing a decidedly dodgy bridge in the upper Mustang valley, Nepal, in the Annapurna range.

Inle lake, Myanmar.

Mural found on the wall of a school in Gilgit, Hunza valley, northern Pakistan.

Graeme and Katrina at the highest border crossing in the world. The Khunjerab pass, Pakistan to China.

Atop the highest, or at least one of the highest, motorable roads in the world. The Khardung La in the Ladakh or Kashmir region of NW India.

Temple of Poseidon, south of Athens.

Graeme and Katrina catch up with their great friends, Ken and Carol Duval, in France to attend the 100th anniversary of the battle of Villers-Bretonaux and the beginning of the end of WW1.

Katrina atop a monster sand dune in Morocco.

Happy kid and his cart in Bukhara, Tajikistan.

Cold at Nordkapp. Graeme and Katrina visited there before in 2002 on a sunny day when they travelled up there with their two sons in a clapped out old Peugeot and pop top camper.

South of Spain with Gibraltar in the background.

Beautiful sunshine in Iceland.

Tortoise on the road in Turkey

Katrina amongst the lupins in Iceland.

Tajik plateau, the Pamirs beckon.

Covered bridge in New Hampshire.

Map of Graeme and Katrina’s travels so far. 140,000 km, 66 countries, 3 accidents and 1 minor mechanical failure. Hopefully many more years to go…

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