Re-united at last!! We have waited for over a week to pick up our motorbike from Dubai’s seaport of Jebel Ali. It was meant to be available by 20 Oct, but delays at Karachi and Dubai have stretched out not only the delivery date, but also our budget and patience… UPS in Karachi turned out [...]

By the time we left Lahore we were really missing our motorcycle (it was being shipped to Dubai). We had traveled from Islamabad by bus and decided to make the next hop to Karachi by train. Although both allowed us to travel quickly and safely, the experience was nothing like what you get on a [...]

We spent over a week in Islamabad. In that time we got our visas issued for the U.A.E and arranged transport of the motorcycle to Dubai. We’ve finally decided to skip the relatively featureless landscape of Balochistan and ship our bike by ferry from Karachi. A big factor in our decision was the security situation [...]

Before leaving Skardu, we received news about the kidnapping of a Polish engineer by Taliban forces just outside the town of Peshawar. This did nothing for our confidence and we had second thoughts about continuing our journey through Pakistan overland. So far we have not seen any evidence of hostilities, but the constant bad press, [...]