Previously:
2004: Norman & Maggie Magowan, two restless spirits, exchanged their routine nine to five existence to become biking nomads on an epic 35,500 mile, 15-month, motorcycle adventure from Chile to Alaska. Thus began ‘Adventures in Yellow’, a journey that will expand and change their lives forever.
Present Day:
Still two restless spirits… Same two yellow motorcycles once more take to the road with a new website to inspire and entertain you as much as the old Pan-American site (www.panamericanadventure.com) and of course our two books.
The journey continued… this time TAKING ON THE WORLD! We left home and headed east and south on roads out of Europe, through Asia, SE Asia, Indonesia, Australia, Tasmania and on to New Zealand. Finally we traversed Canada to complete our mission to ride around the planet!
In October 2018 we arrived back in the UK after just over three years and 51,000 miles on the road! So enjoy the blogs and mooch the galleries as we tell our tale…
As before, the trip continues to fund-raise for Cancer Research UK so if you have been entertained, been moved by or simply enjoy what we are doing, please make a donation by clicking the ‘Talks and Charity‘ link at the top of the page.
Norman & Maggie Magowan
Adventures in Yellow 
Excellent…shall have great pleasure in following your adventures x
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cant wait to read the adventure blogs
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All the staff at Wrights wish you a great adventure and a safe trip, and we are looking forward to your tales xx
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Mmm sounds so good.!
Do you guys know Mani also from Stevenage..? He blogs on here to re motorbikes. He is off and away soon also!
https://wordpress.com/read/blog/id/17956018/
India! When do you set off?
We are going there in Sept for our third visit, But only for two weeks! (Unless I can get some more time off!) Do you have a rough itinerary of the next few months? Wondering where you might be in Sept!
I will have to go and read about your other trip(s), as I have never come across you guys before!
Just bought Leprechauns in Latin America so I’ll get busy!
Mike & Jill.
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Hi guys – really sorry for not being in touch but we completely forgot about this until today! It’s been soon busy trying to clear everything for the road and we hope to be off by July but this will be pending the arrival of our carnets. Thanks for the interest and yes we have been in touch with Mani who has offered lots of advice about India. Our plan is simply to ride East and keep going. We have a rough idea of where we want to see but don’t like planning too much and just take it as it comes. By September we have to be at the Turkish Iranian border to pick up a guide so will probably not hit India until October. Hope you enjoy the first book and apologies again for the delay in replying!
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Hey thanks for that!
Sounds like a plan – not to have too much of a plan!
Will keep an eye on your progress!
Mani has set off on his trip just now!
I’m jealous indeed! 🙂
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Hello Maggi &Norman
good to hear from you both, wish you all the best and we will be guest on your side.Have a good ride.
Hope to see you soon.
Your german friends Ulrike & Holger
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Hi Holger / Ulrike – great to hear from you both and hope all is well! Keep in touch!
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You truly are epic adventurers. I look forward to “travelling along” with you as you explore the world. Take your angels with you as it can be a wild world.
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Cheers Kathy – don’t forget to click the ‘like’ button on the website and you’ll get email notifications when we update! Currently in the beautiful city of Prague in the Czech Republic – photos to follow 🙂
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Thanks for the update….
These last couple of weeks of planning and tying up ends will soon be behind you both …
Can’t wait to follow your adventures x
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guys, well done………good luck
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Hola Amigos.
Guaaaauuuu es super emosionante saber que van ha hacer una nueva aventura en amarillo, con gusto los seguire desde Mexico, Muchas felicidades y en verdad que esta noticia me pone muy contento.
Saludos
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Good luck and have a great time. Looking forward to your blog? 😃
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Truly amazing journey ahead for you both, I too didn’t know of your previous one! I know the Benington Pilates group miss you so much Mags, but good luck to you both and thanks in advance for your blogs, have fun.
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Have a great trip ! looking forward to reading your Blogs . Safe trip and have enjoy every minute
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I hope I am lucky enough to meet you somewhere on the road as in the Latin America part of your journey. Good luck in your new Adventure!
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Cheers Pete – just name the time & place!
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Love reading about your great adventures.
Namaste.
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keep heading east then ill put a few shrimps on the barby for ya both!!
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Greetings Norman and Maggie,
All best wishes to you both for the coming year. I think I posted a message a couple of days ago, but it doesn’t show, so it might have been swallowed up by our first winter storm, 30 cms of snow. Once more, then:
My friend, Murray McCartney, who just met you in Mysore, sent me the link to “Adventures in Yellow”, and what a treat it is! I’m hugely enjoying your stories and photos of India, especially Goa, which I visited ten years ago on a backpacking trip with our daughter, Meg.
No riding for me just now, so for the next few months I’ll enjoy life on 2 wheels through your blogs and photos. I run a 1986 airhead, an R80RT that’s “old but still sound” (to borrow Stan Rogers’ phrase). It’s carried me reliably and comfortably from home in Ottawa to Canada’s east and west coasts, and deep into the States as well. Not quite the distances and terrain that you’ve covered, but always enjoyable.
Safe riding, and keep the shiny side up
John
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Cheers for this John,
Really appreciate you taking the time to comment! We’ve been off grid for a few days hence the tardy reply… We’ve now moved south into Kerala and even hotter weather! I’m lagging a bit with the blogs but then India is such an amazing place to travel through that every day is jam packed with strange and wonderful occasions. We are currently in Kochin and headed to the very tip of India where 3 oceans meet. Sounds like you’ve been having fun on your old air-head! We have both always been a lot more interested in what folk do with their bikes rather than what bike they ride. What’s the point of having something in show-room condition if all you ever do is clean and polish it? Every bike should have a story to tell and to is the gathering of the bike’s history that makes motorcycle travel such fun! Happy New Year to you and hope you continue to enjoy our blogs…
Norman & Maggie
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Happy journey sir
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We meet today at petrol pump georai,beed district,maharashtra.nice to meet you sir.Happy journey .
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Thanks for the comment. Always great to meet interested travellers on the road!
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Hi Norman,
I hope you and your wife both are fit.
I think you remember me I am Om from Jaipur Rajasthan your spend some nights at out small Villa ( Anuraag villa)
Kindly share me your contact number.
Kind Regards,
Om
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Hi Om,
Thanks for the contact – will drop you an email separately.
Norman
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haii norman,,i hope u n ur wife in good healty ..and fit to ride..im shaizan..we meet at riverhouse resort..Ma Sariang,chiang mai..we’r rider from malaysia..
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Hi guys – it was great to meet up with you and really enjoyed the Mae Hong Song Loop! Just had new tyres fitted yesterday and are getting ready to go to Laos next after Chiang Rai! Hope you all got home safe!
Norman & Maggie
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Hi. m r.&mrs.magowan
I’m jan (viriyahinsureance) i hope you enjoy in thailand. See you nexts year in phuket
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Thanks Jan for all your help in sorting the insurance! It was a pleasure to meet you today!
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Hello you two!
Lovely to meet you last night – hope you enjoyed your birthday celebration at the reggae bar, Maggie 😊 (Did you continue dancing into the night? !💃) We wish you all the best for the rest of your journey and will continue to follow your adventures via the blog.
Love
Margaret & Ingo XX
PS If you’re ever passing through Munich, please get in touch! 🍻
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Hi Margaret & Ingo,
So lovely to hear from you. We enjoyed chatting with you both last night. It brought back some great memories about Munich.
Likewise when we eventually return home to wonderful Blighty you must call. The dancing was fun! it was an excellent Birthday.
All the better for meeting you both.
Mx
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Hi Norman
Me Salleh at BMW motorrad dis morning.
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Hi Salleh! Great to hear from you! Hope you had a good ride yesterday! Both bikes are now sorted and we are back on the road!
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I was listening to Radio Ulster this morning. Amazing journey! Love your adventurous spirit. My Dad completed 2 road trips through Europe , Asia and Africa in a Hillman Huskey in the 1960s! I have lived in Spain for 2 years so appreciate your sense of adventure. Enjoy the rest of the trip. Martha Robb
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Hi Martha! Thanks very much for the feedback and glad it brought back such lovely memories. Travel is such a rewarding experience and we are loving our time on the road.
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Good to meet you guys here in New Norfolk and as you have discovered, Tasmania is a Motor Cycling MECCA, continue to have a safe journey, I will be following you… cheers Shakas
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Hi Norman and Maggie, hope you survived the storm and got your bike fixed in Christchurch.
We’ll keep an eye on the blog, take care and ring us when you get back to the UK.
Best wishes, Andy and Phil xx
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Hi guys, Cheers for the contact – we are all sorted and are now down in Milford Sound enjoying some beautiful country and weather 🙂 Off to Invercargill tomorrow for some Burt Munro stuff… keep in touch and hope the rest of your trip was fun!
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Kia ora e rua kowhai,
Was good to meet and exchange world trip memories in Westport over a coffee.
Cant wait to catch up more in detail on major wright in chaffers marina in wellington.
Chris & Ina
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Cheers Ina,
Great to bump into you guys and look forward to meeting you and will call once we get sorted in Wellington…
Norman
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Hello Norman and Magowan
Nice to meet you at Birds Hill Park Campground today. I gave you some woods for you Hope enjoy firewood. My name usCharlene Arnold from Winnipeg Manitoba you can see my Facebook look up picture Rottweiler face with flower it mouth. Be safe drive around the world. God bless you. Both!
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Hi Charlene,
Sorry it’s taken a while to reply but we had poor internet for a few days. It was nice to meet you at Bird’s Hill and thanks for the gift of the firewood! We’ve moved on now into Ontario and are still enjoying your lovely country. Take care and thanks again!
Norman & Maggie
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Hi Norman and Maggie, as September starts to feature on our calendars, just wondering how you both are are have you achieved everything that you wanted to do? We returned to the UK back in February via Sydney and Bangkok where we met our son which was lovely. We returned to a cold, snowy UK without a date to move but within a month we had sold, moved to Devon and bought a VW California Camper which we LOVE! We have been travelling here and there mainly in UK but did slip down to Bordeaux to collect our daughter and her boyfriend, just for the crack. Spring in Devon has been awesome, slight drought now but due to change next week. Look us up when you return to UK, we can spend a couple of days hearing your tales. Love and best wishes, Andy and Philippa xxx
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Hi you two! Great to hear from you and glad you are still enjoying your travels. Well it is all coming to an end for us – 10th September we fly back to Gatwick from Toronto. We’re in Ottawa now, a surprisingly beautiful place and will head up into Quebec, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia for the last leg of the trip. Then back to Toronto and home… Looking around at the moment for work and it looks like we may end up somewhere in Europe, thanks to Brexit. Will definitely keep in touch and hope to see you when we get back at some point 🙂
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Hi guys!
I met you at the Thunder Bay KOA on 7/5 and we had a great visit. We finished our Great Lakes Superior adventure at 2,343 miles and had a great time. Pales in comparison to your multi thousands mile journeys. Loved looking over your motorcycles but didn’t ask what the blinking device is on the right hand side below the gas tank?
Safe travels (everybody says that) and enjoy your time.
Paul Jensen
Jamestown, North Dakota
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Hi Paul,
Sounds like you had a great trip and glad you made it back safe! We are in Ottawa now – what a beautiful city!!! – definitely worth a visit in its own right! The blinking device on the bikes is a little battery health indicator. The battery on the GS is up at the headstock and hard to access so you can’t see what’s going on. The indicator is a series of little LED traffic lights so you can see if the battery is suffering. A bonus to this is that a lot of fo think the bikes are alarmed 🙂 It also had a power connector so we can plug in battery chargers, both for the bike battery and for accessory charging.
Take care Paul and once again it was a delight to meet you!
Norman & Maggie
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Hi Norman and Maggie,
It was great to meet you at the rest stop near Deep River, Ont. I have just started reading your adventures, and will enjoy going through the rest, vicariously living through them til I someday start my own. As discussed, please feel free to reach out to or through me for info and/or assistance, or access to members of the BMW club, while in the Maritimes.
Enjoy the final leg of yiur journey in eastern Canada!
Claude
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Thanks for the contact Claude! It was pleasure to meet you and please enjoy the website!
Norman
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We have to bow respectfully as we ponder your adventures. It was great meeting you today!
We wish you all safe travels and ongoing adventures.
8/24/2018
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Hi guys, great to meet you too! One of the sad aspects of our travels are the numbers of great people & kindred spirits we meet and have to pass on by… Hope you have a great vacation and safe travels to you both!
Norman & Maggie
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