We are Travis and Chantil – two Americans who love the outdoors and want to travel as much of the world as we can. In 2015 we purchased our first motorcycle – A 2011 BMW G650GS. A few months later we found and bought another one – a 2012 BMW G650GS Sertão. These two motorcycles have taken us on a lot of adventures. Our first, outside the United States ride, was a 9-day trip of Baja, Mexico. After Baja we were hooked! We were going to ride the world!!
Shortly after Baja, we accepted a job in Germany and decided to sell most of our possessions and ride from California to Maine where we would ship the motorcycles to Iceland. Our trip to Iceland and the Faroe Islands was an incredibly wonderful time and further solidified future plans to travel full-time.
While we lived in Germany, we had some vacation time to ride much of Eastern Europe to include, France, Belgium, Netherlands, the UK, and Ireland. In 2019, Travis participated in a rally raid from Greece to Croatia while Chantil rode in a women-only ride to Everest Base Camp in Tibet from Nepal.
Our reason for traveling is not to run away from life, but so that life does not run away from us.
In March 2020, we started full-time motorcycle travel. Yes, you read correctly! March 2020 – The beginning of a world-wide COVID pandemic. Although this drastically effected our plans, we stuck it out and were rewarded with three years of wonderful memories from our travels all over Europe from Albania to the United Kingdom and a lot in between!
At the end of 2023 we finished our travels in Europe and decided to start fresh with a pair of Kawasaki KLR650s that we outfitted for traveling the American continents over the next 3-4 years. The 2024 season was filled with over 20,000 miles of exceptional riding that included many Backcountry Discovery Routes and presentations at three Overland Expo events from Canada to Arizona. At the beginning of 2025 we had plans to enter Baja Mexico and then continue south all the way to the southern tip of Argentina in South America.
Well at least that WAS THE PLAN, however plans change, and we stumbled across an overland vehicle that we’ve been considering for some time. In February 2025, we bought a shiny new (at least to us) used 2018 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon and then parked it with family in Arizona so we could continue riding through Baja and western Mexico with our KLRs.
After Mexico, we returned to Arizona and loaded up the KLRs into a trailer and towed them to Idaho where we spent the next two months outfitting the Jeep for the next phase of our travels – Alaska and northern Canada!
More adventure awaits…
Thank you for joining us on the adventure,
Travis and Chantil
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