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Itchy Boots - Kalahari to S America to Alaska to Africa to Asia

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sracer said:
She is 36 and her birthday is June 30. If google is correct.
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I thought she was like early 40s. 36 is a spring chicken. She will heal fast.
I have a friend that broke his collar bone and took a year off from riding. You all know him.
 
I splintered my collarbone when I was 18 or 19. It healed pretty fast but it was a rather uncomfortable experience.
 
I had another thought about where Itchy may be headed next. Saudi Arabia just started issuing tourist visas a few years ago after the "non-sense" was over. I recently started following a Swedish woman on Youtube who is traveling from Sweden to Nepal through the Middle-East. She recently traveled across Iraq through Kuwait and entered Saudi Arabia. She is the first moto-vlogger I've seen traveling in SA.
 
Tigerkf said:
I had another thought about where Itchy may be headed next. Saudi Arabia just started issuing tourist visas a few years ago after the "non-sense" was over. I recently started following a Swedish woman on Youtube who is traveling from Sweden to Nepal through the Middle-East. She recently traveled across Iraq through Kuwait and entered Saudi Arabia. She is the first moto-vlogger I've seen traveling in SA.
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Care to share the channel name?
 
tex68w said:
Care to share the channel name?
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I started a new thread about her. FE_Rex is correct!

www.twtex.com

Anyone Else Following Krikkos Adventures on Youtube

I recently discovered a moto-vlogger traveling from Sweden to Nepal through the Middle-East. I first started watching her while she was traveling across Iraq. She has now entered Saudi Arabia who just recently started issuing tourist visas for the first time ever. She is the first moto-vlogger...
www.twtex.com www.twtex.com
 
Per Noraly's latest email she is healing well but won't be back on her new bike (no hints on that yet) for a while. She is in the process of opening a biker friendly bakery and coffee bar in the Netherlands which is quite a departure for someone used to riding around the world, but perhaps she is looking for a good income stream when the day comes that she's no longer a YouTuber. She said her publisher is still talking to US publishers about printing her book in English.
 
Texas T said:
Per Noraly's latest email she is healing well but won't be back on her new bike (no hints on that yet) for a while. She is in the process of opening a biker friendly bakery and coffee bar in the Netherlands which is quite a departure for someone used to riding around the world, but perhaps she is looking for a good income stream when the day comes that she's no longer a YouTuber. She said her publisher is still talking to US publishers about printing her book in English.
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I think you're right, at some point her YouTube income will start drying up. I still think some of her Season 1 and 2 content when she was still unknown is better, not from a video or technical standpoint, but I really enjoyed how she took chances and did stuff she was uncomfortable with... I still think about the time she rode in the cold and the Russian immigration guys, took her in to warm her up so she wouldn't freeze to death. And the time she spent in Iran a part of the world that has been closed off to us in the US since I was a teenager. Either way, eventually something else will need to happen to replace that income and I really like the idea.
 
Tigerkf said:
I agree but if she could go a few more years and invest all the spare money she might not need to work much afterward!
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She probably doesn't "need" to work at all at this point. With 3M+ subscribers and her own shop I would think that she has quite a huge stash by this point. She lives cheap when she's on the road so I think she's smart enough to have squirreled away a nice nest egg by now.
 
veriest1 said:
I splintered my collarbone when I was 18 or 19. It healed pretty fast but it was a rather uncomfortable experience.
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I broke the right collarbone twice over the 10 years I Ianded on rocks in CO. It was rare to fall down, but often resulted in a less desirable experience. The day I finally got my first chest protector, I hit an aspen tree that would have messed me up. Reason for purchase: another aspen tree had recently poked through my 30 year old Hein Gericke Dakar coat on a slightly snowy day and was stopped only by the skin of my bicepts. It was a good move to finally buy a piece or two of gear after all those years of just going for it :-) I had the coat sewed up and its still looks and works almost as good as new during the Texas winters with its liner installed :-)
 
Texas T said:
She posted the Stage 1 section this morning. I think several of the male riders are quite surprised at how well a "girl" can ride. :thumb:
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its all good till one passes you and you have to eat crow. My wife could outride AMA racers 12 years ago...
 
First video is due by the end of the month. Still no details on what the bike is going to be. This is just her electronics load out.

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They do have a smaller one but that requires you to connect it with your phone and use phone screen as display and app. But even that is bigger than playstation controllers ...
 
Yea, that's the pro model that has a built in screen, so she doesn't have to monkey around with the phone that probably is running her backup navigation at the time.
 
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