BARFistan 2025, Butch's Ride Report

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there were motos everwhere. One up, two up, four up, six up

 

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another killer restaurant

 

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accommodations were nice
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toilets were different. Squatty ones did not work well with moto gear
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this got called the soda fountain

 

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another cool rando plane pic
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Skardu accomodations

 

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I was always lookung for a real map; not a postage stamp thing on a phone. Like, paper, and big. I was not sucessful. It bacame a running joke.

 

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eating well
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strange things along the trail
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everywhere was awesome

 

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good times
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There was another running joke... Frenchie, just over that hill is an awesome glacier. 20 minutes!

 

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pretty stuff

 

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OK, Stan bought a shawl and put it to good use almost everday

 

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This is the Romanian girl's bike, Simona, who instructed a yoga session for us one morning. She is with Moin now in Afghanistan
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Romanian dude, Dragos, bike
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Their "Ride Our Story" thing is amazing.

Ride Our Story - From Carpathians to Himalayas

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