About Us

John and Shane are brother's-in-law through the marriage of Shane and John's sister Alison.  Both share an avid sense of adventure and, being of Irish descent, they enjoy each other's company when not working on their motorcycles or planning another trip.  Here is a bit of an overview of these two adventurers; John is a an easy mannered guy with a calm approach to life, nothing ever really bothers him, and when faced with adversity he always knows that there's a solution...it might not be right away, but it will come in time.  Shane is a detail oriented skinny guy who hates for things to be disorganized.  Plan well in advance is Shane's motto, have a backup plan for the backup plan, and if you are faced with challenges he believes that it's a result of either poor preparation, lack of research, or just not enough detail.  John is content with whatever life throws at him, deviations from the plan..."not an issue," delays..."not an issue," lost...."we'll figure it out, I'll just ask someone." 

Both are avid motorcyclists with a combination of both onroad and offroad experience.  In early 2008 John came across a website of a Kansas police officer who had made a similar trip on a BMW 650GS to the exact same place in Costa Rica where John and Shane have visited on several occasions.  Discussions were had amongst the two of them over several weeks and a pact was made to ride from Toronto to Costa Rica.  First, John had to finish getting his license and then we had to acquire the right motorcycles for the trip.  They acquired the bikes in early June at Budds BMW in Oakville, which they both highly recommend, and began the process of acquiring after-market parts that we would need in order to complete the trip.  John got his license in the Spring of 2009, and they continued to acquire parts for the bikes, and the summer was spent training for this trip.  Both trained for this trip by doing a combination of long and short distance jaunts throughout Ontario and Quebec as well as riding the bikes on and offroad.  Luckily for the two of them, after contacting the Kansas police office, "Shawn'" was gracious enough to provide them with all of the data and trip planning materials from his trip.

Here is our planned route for our trip to James Bay and the Trans-Taiga: