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Alaska: to around motorcycle history

It is a moment that can be worth a life, that justifies all the efforts and sufferings. I realize that this is the best ending I could have my trip, I'd rather have them come to conclude the REO as a hermit. Here and now are the true explorers who have come to seek.

byMiquel Silvestre

16 January, 2013

"My trip to North Cape"

North Cape is a legendary destination for any motorist. For me, I've come to Cape Town motorcycle, was almost a personal obligation to reach the northernmost point of Europe.

byMiquel Silvestre

8 September, 2012

The "tough" US Border Police

I have also given thanks for not being reduced electric shock as I sprayed his eyes with pepper spray and a German shepherd sharp teeth tore at my low paid, and two large sizes, pants driver.

byMiquel Silvestre

5 July, 2012

Dodging rocks

Miquel Silvestre, the first in the Philippines

It has become the first Spanish man to reach the Asian archipelago by land from Spain, culminating in the first part of the Route of the Forgotten Scouts to meet at a place in the history of Spain and some of its most illustrious travelers.

byvap

12 May, 2012

Kenya: the hard road barefoot lost shepherd

In a long line filled with coarse gravel divisive and two shadows in the distance. Two hikers. When I'm close to them I say something (...) In perfect English one, the youngest, turns to me and asked if this road I saw a man without shoes. By Miguel Silvestre.

byMiquel Silvestre

27 December, 2011

The unknown area of ??the Spanish explorers of California

Juan Bautista de Anza was born in 1763 in the current Mexico, near Arizpe. The son of a Spanish soldier killed by Apaches, Young enlisted in the Army. With 24 years and was captain. Featured in what is now Arizona, requested permission from the Viceroy of New Spain to attempt an overland route to California. And 1774 marched 20 soldiers, 3 priests and 140 horses through the desert bare and unknown, Yuma Indian Territory and rattlesnakes.

byMiquel Silvestre

31 May, 2011

The future of Egypt: Modernity and fundamentalism "?

Outside the resorts, villages are miserable and children threw stones at motorists. Cairo, congested and wrapped in a permanent haze; the capital of the Arab world has forsaken God. It seems that the sweepers take twenty years to strike.

byMiquel Silvestre

2 February, 2011

Riders for health: African Motorcycle

Solidarity with the Third World poses a risk: that its practical application in the field of adventurers trick is to escape the demands of work and social First. In Africa, Official solidarity white donors tend to travel in Toyota Land Cruiser.

byMiquel Silvestre

26 January, 2011

Books

"A Million Stones", Miquel Silvestre

Sentence:"A continent, Africa. A princess, the bike. A stone Milo. Tres mil estrellas".

byMiquel Silvestre

9 January, 2011

Africa on a bike. One million rocks

An authentic account of a motorcycle trip through Africa. A book detailing the reality of the black continent beyond the postcards and luxury safaris. En "Un millón de piedras" chewing desert dust, they suffer the corrupt, sometimes, African bureaucracy and finished the night drinking with the strange bedfellows who always invents the way.

byMiquel Silvestre

8 January, 2011

Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
Of the ruins of the empires: Asia's adjustment with European colonialism	9,45/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,40/10
"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
"Pilgrims of beauty": Italy and Greece Bacanal	9,20/10
"Travel with Charley": Raw portrait of the US 60	9,05/10
Winter notes on summer impressions: Dostoevsky in front of the mirror	8,90/10
The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
Strengthen the foundation: Africa raises its voice	8,15/10
My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country	6,25/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10