HU Travellers Meeting Ecuador 2018

Emina & David Morieson, 2WheelsInMotion 2WheelsInMotion Our travels to date - 15 months and 60,000 km around South America, and hopefully inspire others with the "Travel Bug" to also take the plunge

While on a fishing trip together, we stumbled across the Adventure Film Festival where a chance meeting with fellow overlanders started us on a journey that continues today. We will provide information and inspiration for those considering a similar trip and, in particular, those travelling "two-up". We'll cover topics such as planning, getting our bike ready and the modifications made, problems on the road, gear taken, what has worked and what hasn't worked for us, as well as areas specific to travelling two-up.

DAVID AND EMINA MORIESON are from Melbourne, Australia, and always had a passion for adventure, travel, and motorbikes. David has been rebuilding and riding motorbikes since an early age, and visited all corners of Australia, including crossing the Simpson Desert on a camel. Em has always been passionate for travel that continues even today!

Andres Molestina How to Prepare for a Motorcycle Trip

The idea is to prepare and motivate new riders for a motorcycles trip. Andres covers everything from the psychological to the physical, including the equipment you will need, the motorcycle inspections, and trip-related paper work. With two trips around South America, extensive riding all over Ecuador, and more than 10 trips around Peru exploring dirt road and Inca trails under his belt, Andres is well-experienced to provide the valuable information you need for successful adventures.

ANDRES MOLESTINA is 61-years-old and has ridden motor bikes for 40 years. He's a Kawasaki KLR 650 lover and has owned 12 of them. The most isolated places call out to him and he finds them best by exploring secondary dirt roads. He loves to teach new riders and is especially motivated to encourage safe and responsible riding with a respect for nature.

Marisa Glass and Tim Notier, Notier's Frontiers Notier's Frontiers Traveling Tips / Tim's Tributes and Marisa's Musings

Notier's Frontiers Traveling Tips
Nine months riding 2-up on a KTM1190 from Chicago to Ecuador

Tim and Marisa take you on an escape of the countries they've visited while riding 2-up. In front of a visual backdrop of video and stills for "ambience", learn some of the nuts-and-bolts of adventure travel from "Tim's Top 10 Traveling Tips", the gear they packed, and stories about how they trouble-shooted various issues.

Tim's Tributes and Marisa's Musings
Different outlooks of the world from only inches apart

She has traveled extensively around the world, knows Arabic, Spanish, English, and is now learning Turkish and French. Tim never had a passport until 11 months ago. They're on a 3-year round-the-world journey and it's the first time Tim has left his home country. Together, Marisa and Tim give voice to their somtimes-complementary, sometimes-opposite views of places they have visted, culture and road conditions. How do those views differ from a well-traveled versus first-time perspectives? They both have eyes wide open and spend most of the day only inches apart, but their perspectives of the world as it passes by are drastically different.

MARISA GLASS and TIM NOTIER are a couple from Chicago, Illinois, USA, currently on a 3-year tour around the world. Having travelled two-up on a KTM 1190 Adventure over the last nine months, they have met so many amazing people and seen wonderful sights. Marisa is co-pilot, translator, and cultured while Tim got his first-ever passport just last year.

Ricardo Rocco, Escuela de Motos Motorcycle and Love

Motorcycle and love... you can't live without either of them. In the meantime, Ricardo teaches motorcycling. His love for South America is bountiful and he will share useful information about this beautiful land. He is so super-experienced about traveling in South America that he can stand in front of a South America map and talk about it for hours and hours. If you're a visitor to South America, you will want to chat with Ricardo during this weekend. Hospitality? A lot of experience there, too. Moto Casa was famous in the past and now there's a new Moto house with a thermal water pool and everything.

RICARDO ROCCO is a true nomad... to just go and not come back.

Call for presenters!

How about you? We're all here to learn, and there's LOTS to learn! We want to do more presentations and seminars - but we need volunteers to give them! Any topic you can contribute having to do with motorcycle travel, maintenance, planning etc, lasting 20 minutes or more, would be great. Please sign up here.