• Rss
The Restless Traveler
  • Travel Near & Far
  • The Rewired Life
  • Places
  • Climate
  • AboutAfter years of writing emails to friends about our various trips, I’ve finally gotten around to creating a blog about our restless travels.  TheRestessTraveler (TRT) is a website about and for people who like to take the road less traveled.  It’s ground-centric as Karen and I like to wander, following our instincts rather than a set plan, and that’s easiest to do on a motorcycle, RV, car, bus, train, taxi (ground or water), horse, wagon and — god forbid — our feet. We’ve been traveling together for more than two decades, yet we are still beginners in getting to know the world.   We’ve just scratched the surface with entire continents still a mystery to us.   We intend to work the problem vigorously. Blogs are suppose to be about what is happening now, yet much of the initial content for TRT will be a mash-up of where we’ve been rather than where we’re going.  We need to catch everyone up fast.  Where to begin? Maybe my most recent trip chasing the Dakar off-road race in South America would be a good start.  Or  the life-changing (literally) trip to Nepal that I still think about almost every day even though its been…
    • About Fred
    • About Karen
  • Contact UsLiving life in places that are anywhere-but-the-middle-of-the-road, naturally cuts off modern tethers. So, while we’ll do our best to respond to you quickly, please be patient while we wipe the dust of our faces, get our motors out of the muck, and finish up in the local outhouse…. here’s how to reach us.
    • TRT Substack Newsletter
  • Menu Menu

Europe

September 27, 2022/by FHW

It’s a wrap – 5000 miles later we’re done with our “European Motorcycle Summer”

  Neither Karen nor I thought we'd actually do two…
September 21, 2022/by FHW

Report #6: Goodwood Revival 2022 (OMG!)

September 17, 2022/by FHW

Report #5: The Queen is Dead, Long Live the King

September 7, 2022/by FHW

Report #4: Amsterdam and the North Sea coast

August 28, 2022/by FHW

European Summer Report #3: SPA Belgium

August 19, 2022/by FHW

M/C Summer Report #2: Italy, Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Austria and Germany

August 6, 2022/by FHW

Motorcycle Summer Report 1: The Loire Valley and a Bit of the Alps

February 18, 2020/by FHW

We close out 2019 in Mexico and greet 2020 in Paris

May 21, 2016/by FHW

South through Spain’s countryside to its southern most tip

May 11, 2016/by FHW

The first leg: plane, bus, ship and m/c to Barcelona

May 2, 2016/by FHW

We’re about to get on the road again

June 28, 2015/by FHW

3500 miles later and we’re done.

June 11, 2015/by FHW

The Isle of Real Men

June 5, 2015/by FHW

Strasbourg, Paris, the northern French coast, the Chunnel, Sandwich and Burford

May 31, 2015/by FHW

The Call of the Alps

May 27, 2015/by FHW

A Gran Prix for the lucky

May 21, 2015/by FHW

Week One – Plane, train, taxi, and motorcycle to Nice, France

March 30, 2015/by FHW

1st Qtr. Report: Mexico, Seattle, DC, Boston, NYC, Berlin, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Cuba. That’s all:)

December 26, 2014/by FHW

A year of traveling continuously (and occasionally dangerously)

Travel Near & Far

  • The Latest
  • North America
  • Mexico
  • Central & South America
  • Europe
  • Africa
  • Asia
© Copyright - Fred H. Walti, II.
Scroll to top