Everybody loves a 3am aerial session. Kevin and Violeta attempt the 'snatch'
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
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Kevin St. Laurent, Mark Palatucci, Dave Trier and Joel Tornatore are lindy hoppers from San Francisco. We all wanted to tour Europe on a motorcycle. We all wanted to dance in as many European cities as possible. MotoLindy is our two month motorcyle and dance tour of Europe. We left San Francisco on June 16th and rode to Vancouver where we put our bikes on a cargo airplane bound for Frankfurt, Germany.
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- Moto-Mark arrives home!!!
- I hit a rest stop to fill up and get some food. In...
- August 12th: Toronto to Philadelphia
- The club has live music every night. Wow. The band...
- August 11th: Moto-Mark arrives in Toronto
- Mark's last photo in Europe...
- August 8th: The ferry to Keil
- Laerdal - right at the end of the beautiful Sognef...
- There were plenty of streams leading down to the f...
- Approaching Laerdal..
- I winded my way down the mountain pass into Laerda...
- Ahh life..It was great to have some company..
- I continued on realizing that my motorcycle was th...
- I stopped for a quick stretch..when I took this p...
- I've been riding about 1 hour in wilderness in alm...
- Sometimes it felt like I was on a different planet...
- The landscape seemed somewhat alien..
- Nearing 5000ft..snow = cold.
- Wow. There's no one up here. I'm really in the mid...
- The clouds moved past very quickly, creating inter...
- Leaving the Aurlandfjord...I'm at about 4000 ft, n...
- Altitude 3000 ft..getting a bit chilly but the vie...
- The roads were empty. I could have counted the tot...
- It's hard to get a picture of yourself with your b...
- Near the top, looking back at Flam..
- The road winds you up the side of the mountain and...
- On the way back I decided to take a detour to trav...
- August 7th: The beginning of Mark's voyage home..
- Ah, Room 313. 313, has a lot of meaning for me. I ...
- On the way back to my hotel, I passed the greatest...
- The view from the "work" hut..The weather was perf...
- About 100 ft from the house, Greig had his 'work' ...
- The BMW dealer was only a few miles away from the ...
- August 6th: Julia flys home to Amsterdam..
- We found a small cafe and had a quiet dinner. Unfo...
- On the way to dinner we passed this 14 year old No...
- Bergen is old..and like any old city, there is the...
- Do we find lindy? Or does the lindy find us? By ac...
- We arrived in Bergen, a charming seaport town righ...
- We boarded a ferry to take us across the Sognefjor...
- August 5th: M&J leave Solvern for Bergen
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- Simone (Kevin's sister), Charlie, and Allison, ho...
- Monica and Dave hanging out in the historical por...
- Laia and Kevin in Gracia (neighborhod of Barcleoni...
- Another team goes for eight levels. What looks lik...
- The Catalan Paparazzi were out in full force in B...
- Here's the same castle, but eight levels complete....
- Traditonal Catalan Castle buidling. Here we have ...
- Here's a better shot of Laia's whopping 50cc moto....
- Kevin's perspective while staying in Barcelona. H...
- Christopher Columbus's home in Genova, Italy.
- We got back to Solvorn and Trond warmed us up with...
- 4 hours on the ice and we're still smiling.
- The hike down was almost as tricky as the hike up....
- To go any higher, we'd need to ice camp. We called...
- Style and grace..
- As Kevin and Dave said earlier, fashion is priorit...
- Don't want to fall in there. The pressure in the i...
- Time for a lunch break..
- I check out Julia's bum while she skillyfully navi...
- Here's Mark after climbing 1000 ft of glacier in h...
- The team ascends...Climbing in full riding gear wa...
- Ingville, our Norwegian ice-commander, teaches pr...
- I just strapped the ice clampers right over my rid...
- Time to climb. We prepared for a 4 hr 'blue ice' h...
- Wow. That is a huge arse piece of ice.
- August 4th: Glaciering on Jostedalbreen
- Hmm..let's take a boat across the lake and see if ...
- Coming back from Russia we passed back through Sto...
- Russian style apartments. No where is safe from g...
- Everybody loves a 3am aerial session. Kevin and V...
- Violeta and Elenora made us traditional Russian fo...
- Rakhim's pad was on the 7th floor. He has a washe...
- Traffic jam at 4am. Most bridges are raised in th...
- Violeta displays typical Russian Fashion.
- Swedish Motorway Stop: A Big Tasty or a Big Nasty?...
- Kevin, Katia & Dave. She was the one who did all ...
- After half a night's dancing, Rakhim only has half...
- Dave's Bike, Kevin's bike, and our host Rakhim's b...
- Kevin - "Is the camera on?" Dave - "Don't know, al...
- FInnaly found it, the motorcycle part that goes......
- Dave and Katia tearing it up!
- So many Russian women to dance with, I started to ...
- "Uhh, hey baby, want to dance?" Rakhim, Vanya, an...
- That night we rode a couple miles into the town of...
- We made it to Solvorn! We found the most amazing ...
- After the church we continued the ride to Solvern....
- Many of the decorations on the church are identica...
- The churches were built right around when Christi...
- After we got through the tunnel we decided to tak...
- Entering the cavern..you can pull over and take a ...
- This tunnel is awesome. To break up the monotony, ...
- We didn't have any place to stay that night in Fl...
- The train arrives at Myrdal. I saw this girl that ...
- During the ride, the train stops at the beautiful ...
- August 3rd: Flam to Solvorn
- After we got back to Flam, we got ice cream and ju...
- We got to Gudvagen and spent a few minutes cruisin...
- The view right before we arrived in Gudvagen..
- What's up with the fleece? Don't know if you notic...
- We passed a spot in the fjord that looked just lik...
- The couple next to us on the boat didn't get the m...
- This is the most narrow point - only 250 meters ac...
- Apparently, if you drink from this famous waterfa...
- Turning the corner into the Naeroyfjord - one of t...
- Just mountains and water as far as you can see..
- We left the Aurlandfjord and entered the larger So...
- There are lots of little villages that are nestled...
- The Aurlandfjord is beautiful..it is a small branc...
- August 2nd: Ferrys and Flam
- Leaving Flam..
- I then went back to my small pension and enjoyed i...
- We arrived in Flam about 10pm. Flam is located at ...
- We winded our way down a bunch of switchbacks and ...
- There were waterfalls coming down all sides of the...
- Leading into the valley was a huge river..
- A few miles after the campground, we passed throug...
- At this point, we had been riding about 50 miles a...
- Seriously though - there are just lakes everywhere...
- We continued along these deserted roads...
- Nature rocks.
- There were tons of streams and waterfalls leading ...
- Along the lake were these really oldschool log cab...
- We continued along and things started getting chil...
- We passed a bunch of really pretty wooden churches...
- The Norwegians love to build their roads as close ...
- Another lake. Blue skies and everything is so gree...
- We passed countless lakes, rivers, and streams.
- August 1st (afternoon): Oslo to Flam. The greatest...
- Crossing over to Russia, the 3 hour saga. Good thi...
- Friend/host Rahim with friend Katia. fyi Russia h...
- Can't find a dance party, we make a party. Rahim's...
- Rush hour in SPB.
- "My milkshake is bedder than yours..."
- Kevin, how many times do I have to tell you, chop...
- Patrick Swazye and Jennifer Grey preparing for fut...
- Large LEGO display, at SPAS NA KROVI (Church on th...
- Dave windsurfing the Baltic Sea
- Finally, Commrade Kevin's suit is fashionably acce...
- Kevin and Dave Hit Russia...
- Tic Tack Toe with french fry, mayo and ketchup. Ti...
- Joel's cat Hank. We like to call him MotoHank. H...
- "Whoever denied it supplied it..."
- "Dude, maybe I could get a better photo of this st...
- At the top of the park are another set of incredib...
- "Maybe I shouldn't be juggling these?"
- Crap. It's raining.
- Kevin was the subject for "around the back"..
- Frankie Manning and Anne Johnson doing one of thei...
- "Hey you with the illegally parked Motorrad..."
- You don't know how long I stood on this leg in ord...
- The sculptures are incredibly lifelike and rather ...
- August 1st (morning): Oslo
- And this is how the rest of the ride to Oslo went....
- There was this crazy mist rising off all the grass...
- Maybe I should be a farmer.
- There are no freeways in Norway. Just beautiful co...
- We left that lake and found another a few miles la...
- It was hard to leave this place.
- Wishing everybody could see this..
- You know you wanted it.
- Right after we saw that sign we discovered a stunn...
- On a roll, about 100 miles from Oslo. This also ha...
- "Are you lookin' at my bum?"
- With the weather clearing and the sun getting low,...
- We continued the ride to Oslo. Sweden is actually ...
- My hot dog capsizes outside the Vasa museum.
- Vasa needs better project management
- The Vasa was the first warship with two gun decks....
- It probably took a while to carves these guys. Wha...
- They keep the boat in an extremely dark museum and...
- July 31st: Meanwhile...Mark and Julia head to Oslo...
- Kevin busts a move on the helio pad of the ferry
- Kevin's three hour nap by a lake near Helsinki. J...
- Kevin and Dave wait in line for the ferry from Sto...
- It's not just how you ride, Kevin and Dave take fa...
- After 6,000 miles, it's time for Kevin's f650 to g...
- August 3rd: Kevin and Dave head East to Finland an...
- Motolindy spreads across Europe!
- The motolindy four, Mark, Kevin, Dave & Joel with...
- Of course, after dinner we all went for ice cream...
- After dinner craziness - maybe it wasn't our hunge...
- We had an awesome meal at Michaelangelo restaurant...
- Clearly our hunger was getting to us.
- July 30th: Herrang to Stockholm
- The very last night of dancing..so sad.
- A group of streakers hit the dance about 3am. It w...
- Lisa, Frankie, Julia, and Mark.
- We had some of the famous Herrang brownies..
- The last night of Herrang. The theme was "graduati...
- We then rode back 40 miles to Herrang. Along the w...
- We slept on a rock for a few hours and enjoyed the...
- ...and I test the waters..tit bit nipp'ly in here....
- Julia gets ready for a nap...
- We rolled right up to the water. This is what we l...
- Blue skies! We made it to the Baltic Sea!
- We made it to Oregrund and the skies started to cl...
- On the way to Oregrund we found more skinny trees....
- We drove around aimlessly for about 45 minutes wit...
- It would be great to take this boat, but we were g...
- Beautiful, but this doesn't look like a beach.
- We drove about 2 miles from the camp and found wat...
- It's about 8:30am. We've been dancing all night/m...
- Kevin fans out at 8am..
- Dancers still going strong at 7:30am...
- It's Friday morning about 6:30am..The entire Motol...
- Thursday...
- Wednesday...
- Tons of great dancers in the middle of nowhere gat...
- We took a well needed rest and then headed out to ...
- We quickly found out that mosquitos are really bad...
- July 28th-30th: Herrang Dance Camp
- We made it to Herrang!! Over 500 miles from our st...
- We also passed through a lot of quaint villages..
- I really loved this spot - it looks like a paintin...
- Ah..the countryside is beautiful and the roads are...
- After passing Stockholm, we got off the main road ...
- After passing this huge lake in the middle of Swed...
- RuhRoh. Clouds, and rain..and cold...and also thes...
- Our first view of the Swedish countryside. It is v...
- We made it to Sweden! Only 450 miles to go..
- The Malmo bridge rocks!
- July 28th: Copenhagen to Herrang
- Just wanted to give a shout out to 'The Stu' since...
- It is a Motolindy rule to have ice cream in every ...
- Rich finished work for the day and met us on the m...
- Finally, some sunshine. It has been overcast since...
- Here was one of the cooler structures. According t...
- Here is the famous Danish statue of 'The Little Me...
- So apparently these sausages are a Danish specialt...
- Ok, so this was weird. Rich told us that Copenhage...
- Wait..Wait..It's just the Danish stock exchange.
- Run for your lives! We're being attacked by soft-s...
- July 26th: Copenhagen
- My good friend Rich recently moved to Copenhagen f...
- Happy Birthday Gary!
- We arrived in Copenhagen in the early evening. Wh...
- The ride from Rodby to Copenhagen was really beau...
- And then you wait. The ferrys are pretty comfortab...
- Motorbikes go against the wall. You then strap you...
- July 25th: Mark and Julia - Amsterdam-Rheine-Copen...
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