Category: Year in Review
2025 – A Year Full of Overland Travel Adventures
by Travis Gill
Recently, a friend asked us, “Don’t you get tired of traveling?” Considering we’ve been living on the road full-time since March 2020, it felt like a fair question. But both Chantil and I genuinely love discovering new places and experiences—whether it’s the vast, untamed landscapes of Alaska or the vibrant flavors and culture of Mexico. We can’t imagine settling down anytime soon. There’s a … Read More 2025 – A Year Full of Overland Travel Adventures
2026 Overland Travel Calendar
by Travis Gill
Every October, Chantil and I look forward to revisiting the best photographs from the past year of travel and selecting the best of the best for our annual calendar. These images were chosen from our journeys between October 2024 and September 2025, and each one has the magical ability to pull us right back into the moment it was captured. This is one of … Read More 2026 Overland Travel Calendar
2024 Year in Review
by Travis Gill
This year was a year of change for us. Since March of 2020 we had been full-time traveling within the European continent with a couple of diversions to north Africa. After riding more than 110,000 miles on each of our two BMW motorcycle “pack-mules”, we felt it was time to put an end of the European chapter of our travels and start fresh in … Read More 2024 Year in Review
2025 Overland Motorcycle Calendar
by Travis Gill
Every October, Chantil and I look forward to pouring through the thousands of photographs from the last year of travel and painstakingly whittle them to the ‘best-of-the-best’ that make it to our yearly calendar. These photographs were chosen from our travels from October 2023 to September 2024 and each has the magical ability of pulling us back into the moment. This is one of … Read More 2025 Overland Motorcycle Calendar
2024 Calendar Review
by Travis Gill
Chantil and I look forward to October each year because we start putting together the yearly viajarMOTO Overland Motorcycle Calendar. We pour through hundreds of our favorite photographs and make the painstaking process of whittling them down to just a cover photograph and twelve others that capture the natural beauty of the countries we visit, and the adventure of traveling on two wheels. These … Read More 2024 Calendar Review
2023 in Review
by Travis Gill
What a year! A new year always brings the excitement of exploring new places, making new friends, and creating memories of a lifetime. 2023 was no exception! Over the last year we rode from the Sahara Desert of Morocco to the Southern Boreal forests of Finland and 18 other countries in between. Nearly 15,000 miles of backcountry roads, roadside oddities, historical places, and cities to … Read More 2023 in Review
Looking Back on 2022
by Travis Gill
We were recently talking to a hotel host in Morocco who inquired where we were from. This is always an interesting question, because as travelers, we feel we’re “from” wherever we started our day. However, to avoid confusion, we just say “California” since most people know of California from movies and television. The next question, upon seeing that we’re on motorcycles, is “Did you … Read More Looking Back on 2022
2023 Calendar Review
by Travis Gill
Chantil and I look forward to October each year because we start putting together the yearly viajarMOTO Overland Motorcycle Calendar. We pour through hundreds of our favorite photographs and make the painstaking process of whittling them down to just a cover photograph and twelve others that capture the natural beauty of the countries we visit, and the adventure of traveling on two wheels. These … Read More 2023 Calendar Review
2022 Calendar Review
by Travis Gill
Chantil and I look forward to October each year because we start putting together the yearly viajarMOTO Overland Motorcycle Calendar. We pour through hundreds of our favorite photographs and make the painstaking process of widdeling them down to just a cover photograph and twelve others that capture the natural beauty of the countries we visit, and the adventure of traveling on two wheels. Each … Read More 2022 Calendar Review
Summary of 2021
by Travis Gill
We were both very apprehensive of 2021 on January 1st. Although the COVID pandemic seemed to be subsiding there were still many uncertainties. We both sensed that getting vaccinated was vital to us being able to continue traveling. However, the chances of two American citizens getting a vaccination in a foreign country looked bleak, especially in the regions of Europe that were struggling to … Read More Summary of 2021
Summary of 2020
by Travis Gill
What a YEAR! Never in our wildest imaginations did we expect a year like 2020! It definitely had its ups and downs… This is a short summary of our year of full-time motorcycle traveling starting in Idaho, United States and ending in Budva, Montenegro. January It was a wonderful blessing to take the time to visit with most of our family in Idaho. We … Read More Summary of 2020
2021 Calendar Review
by Travis Gill
For this blog post we thought it would be interesting to talk about each of the photographs that were used for the 2021 viajarMOTO calendar. All of these were taken during our motorcycle travels in 2020. Each of these photographs immediately puts us back into the moment. The memories, feelings, and senses are flooded as we are transported back in time! January: Trans Euro … Read More 2021 Calendar Review
