Welcome…

Welcome to 99 Adventures, the motorcycle diaries of Gary Adams and Genevieve Douglas; it’s about the things we do, the people we meet and the places we see.

Our First Trip

The plan is to leave our home town of Bournemouth on Friday the 2nd October 2009 at around 14:00 (if I can somehow convince Kev to let me leave work early) travelling to our only pre-booked accommodation of the trip; a B&B in Dover. After spending the night in Dover we’ll be up early to catch our ferry at 07:45 that will take us from Dover to Boulogne, France. We’ll arrive in Boulogne around 09:45 local time (BST+1) where we plan on riding along the northern coastline to Le Havre and from this point onwards we have no idea where we’ll be heading each day or where we’ll be spending each night. All we know is that we want to travel down the west coast of France so that we can cross the Pyrenees from west to east and then head down the east coast of Spain towards our destination villa in Torrevieja, apart from that we have no planned route. With all of that in mind I’ve done my best to do a rough outline of the way we’ll be travelling so you can at least try and get an idea of our trip in your head.

It’s approximately 1,600 miles from Bournemouth to Torrevieja using this rough route so at ~250 miles a day we should be there in about a week (unless I decide to keep riding the Pyrenees the entire trip)! We’ll be tweeting and posting short blog posts as we go to keep you all up-to-date with where we are and what we’re doing (depending on Wi-Fi coverage) and we’ll also be keeping daily budget and mileage logs to write up when we get back. If you’d like to talk to us while we’re away the best way to do contact us is by tweeting @sgtbeardy or @gendouglas or simply replying to our posts on here; we’d love to hear from you when we’re on the road!

99 Adventures

99 Adventures was the result of this plan and the want to record the things we do leading up to and during the trip. We felt we could use the site to plan and document our trip, and most importantly to keep in contact with our friends and family whilst on it. There are so many things in the world that we both want to see, which is the reason we decided on a fairly generic name, who knows, we might even clock up 99 of these adventures one day!