Riders

Name: Pawel Tarnowski
Place of Birth: Gdansk, Poland
Hometown: Montreal, Canada (since 1990)
Languages spoken: fluent in French, English and Polish. Basic Spanish.

Riding since: 2000

Previous long-distance motorcycle trips:

• Montreal to Los Angeles on a Kawasaki KLR 650 in 2001 (15000 km )
• Europe (Munich to Instanbul) on a Suzuki DR 650 in 2005 (10000 km)
• Labrador and Martimes on a Suzuki DR 650 in 2007 (5000 km)
• Montreal to Tennessee (Deal's Gap) on a Triumph Tiger 955i in 2009 (5000 km)
• Montreal to Tennessee (Deal's Gap) on a Suzuki DR 650 in 2011 (5000 km)

Countries visited prior to this trip:

Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United States.

Name: Mihai Butta
Place of Birth: Bucarest, Romania
Hometown: Montreal, Canada
Languages spoken: fluent in Romanian, French, English and Spanish.

Riding since: 2001

Previous long-distance motorcycle trips:

• Montreal to Southern Mexico on a Suzuki DR 650 in 2006 (15 000 km)
• Montreal to Tennessee (Deal's Gap) on a Suzuki DR 650 in 2011 (5000 km)

Countries visited prior to this trip:

Haiti, USA, Mexico, Peru.. who knows.