| Because of the crazy Corona
rules it was pretty much impossible for us to travel from Holland
to the Uk for the Tripout. Real bummer, but since a bunch of
us had already taken the weekend off, we decided to do a bit
of Road Tripping instead, a Trip-in! |
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| On Friday morning Adele and me first rode to Waspik
together where we would meet up with Eric, Herman and Bart. Kustom
Bart had the cool Dodge van which might come in handy when roadtripping
with old bikes, haha. The next stop was at Camping
de Hei in North Limburg, I had never been there before, really
nice place! |
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| We set up camp and went to the bar where we had
a great meal and way too much drinks with old and new friends,
good times! |
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| On Saturday morning we decided to head to the "High
Chaparral" camping in Luxembourg, so after a good breakfast
we packed up and left. About halfway there we found the main road
was closed and the detour signs pointed us towards Namur. According
to the Garmin navigation we were getting further and further from
our destination so at the next gasstation we decided to leave
the highway and take the small roads to High Chaparral. Eric found
that his exhaust had burned a hole through his bag, sleeping bag
and air mattress, bummer! Not the first time this happened, haha..
After a lot of pretty but very bumpy roads we arrived! |
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| We were supposed to meet up with some more friends
at the beautifull High Chaparral, unfortunately Rene's Panhead
snapped the primary belt when he was halfway there, so he didn't
make it.. |
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| We had a good meal Saturday night on High Chaparral's
huge outside terrace and Bibi and her friend who were camping
in the neighbourhood joined us for drinks, another good party
although we were a bit slower with the drinks than Friday night,
haha |
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Sunday mornning we decided to keep going as we all
had taken the Monday off from work, so after some phonecalls found
a new destination, Boeles
Place in WesterWald, Germany.
This turned out to be the best bit of the whole trip, spectacular
scenery and unlike Belgium, very good roads both in Luxembourg
and Germany. Ofcourse we avoided the highways so we could enjoy
the twisty roads. So far the bikes had held up well, although
I had a leaking floatbowl which was easily fixed, and had to tighten
my chain a notch while we had stopped for burgers, as it was hitting
the chainguard which made an annoying sound. |
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| 40 km before arriving at our destination Eric lost
his chain, he managed to retreive it from the highway but nobody
had a masterlink. A local guy stopped and told us there was a
bikeshop nearby that could help us, but as it was Sunday evening
they were closed. We decided to put the bike in the van and go
get a masterlink the next morning. |
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| Boeles was great, I had never been in a motorcycle
hotel before, you can park your bike in the enormous cellar which
is locked at night and sleep in a real bed, yippie! Great dinner
and breakfast, very friendly people, we will definitely be returning
here more often! Some friends in Essen invited us to drop by on
Monday, so we went in search of a masterlink the next morning,
Eric ended up buying a complete new chain, and then on to Essen |
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| In Essen we got lost because several streets were
closed due to construction and the navigation kept sending us
in circles, so we called Florian and he came to the rescue with
his brutal Chevy Nova, and led us to their house. After having
coffee and snacks with Florian and Nadine ( a couple we met years
ago on the way to the Tripout) we steered back towards Holland.
It was just a long weekend but it felt like we had been away much
longer, great fun and something we should do more often! |
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