Touratech Germany visits 2012 Touratech Pacific NW Adventure Rally

So we're here at the Touratech Pacific Northwest Adventure Rally with Rawhide. The event is a three-day event with two days of riding. It's fully catered. We're camping out here in the wilderness and we have guided rides each day from short and easy to all-day epic adventures that go over several mountain ridges and see some some alpine lakes and really remote rugged tracks that go places that most people never see. I am continually inspired by the people that seem to be drawn to this sport, this game, whatever you'd like to call it. They're good people. I enjoy the sense of accomplishment that most of them come away with. Touratech's involved with this event because everything we do has to do with getting on your motorcycle and going out away from cities, away from population, camping, riding, seeing things that most people don't see because you're you're out on different on little roads that that go over mountain passes and we just love being out in the woods. I haven't seen this part of the world so I'm really looking forward to go a little bit into the mountains and maybe doing the long ride where I can see a lot of the scenery so I'd love to do that tomorrow. What I love about riding in this area is that the roads seem like they're designed to be the ultimate roads to ride on an adventure motorcycle. There are so many roads that have just the perfect sweep. They are smooth. There's like a bed of pine needles on them in many places. Oftentimes it's shaded by pine trees and it just has this amazing flow to it and it's incredibly fun but it's also really scenic. I mean you come around so many corners where you can see this valley and this beautiful low elevation mountains that are kind of framed by the high alpine snow-capped peaks off in the distance and it's just amazing. You see that sort of thing all day long. I did the epic ride which was unbelievable but there were some very quick sweepers and you know very enjoyable time in the scenery. It was just epic. One of the really nice things about this event is that it seems to draw people from all around the country actually. We've got a an awful lot of Canadians who've come in and it's always nice to have Canadians around and we've had a lot of people from other states. I actually heard there was one guy who showed up here from Virginia or something. That's quite the drive. No it's a great place to catch up with customers that we see. I mean we get to see them at least once a year if they come to our event. Of course the part of the adventure is to sit together with the people at the campfire and just hang out, have a beer, have some fun, share stories. This is what travel meetings is all about I think. I've been running a training school for 10 years now and in that tenure period almost everyone that comes for training comes alone and we interrogate them. How come you're alone? Don't you have any friends you could bring along? This is a cool thing to do and universally the message is that the adventure rider is a lone wolf. A person who doesn't feel like they have a sense of community and that's part of what we're trying to do is we're trying hard to increase the size of the community and so when when they come here as I said on my little orientation chat last night we all have one thing in common here and that is we enjoy motorcycles. When you have when you see the smiles on the faces of the people that are out here doing something that they would not be doing if it wasn't for this event this event just gives them the ability it enables them to come out here and experience something that they just wouldn't do on their own and that's really what it's about for us.