Introduction to Blog

Welcome to the Enfields Overland Blog. I’m no expert at this sort of crap and writing is not my forte, but I’ll try to give you all an honest (where legal) and entertaining view of our experiences along the way. I plan to write this blog from my perspective, but where Jorik has input, I’ll add these aspects in italics, or simply note that the relative piece has had input from Jorik directly.

What with Jorik spending a lot of our time off the bikes editing and preparing videos and photos of the trip to post on our various social media platforms, I think it only fair that I take on the responsibility of preparing this blog.

In addition, you may see reference to the “girls” within the blog. These are the bikes that we are taking on the trip. It is clear that we are riding Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycles on this trip, but I still like to refer to my bikes as girls and I often even name them. Whilst I am not sure that we have settled on names for the girls yet, we are loosely referring to my bike as Black Betty and Jorik’s bike as Grey Gertrude.

Hopefully you all enjoy these little updates for our trip. And don’t forget, whilst this might appear to be 2 blokes on their bikes cruising around enjoying the shit out of ourselves, we are raising funds for the White Lodge Centre (https://www.whitelodgecentre.co.uk/) and the Boys and Girls Club Lake Tahoe (https://bgclt.org/). If you do enjoy the blog, and the updates on our social media platforms, please do visit our sponsors page and throw a little donation towards these great charity organisations. Alternatively, if you don’t think that the blog is entertaining enough, or that Jorik and I haven’t gotten ourselves into enough trouble, please do make a donation to our Go Fund Me page (https://www.gofundme.com/f/enfields-overland-motorcycle-central-america-trip) so that we can buy a few beers!