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Hello! 👋
Great to have you here! If this is your first time stopping by — welcome aboard. In 2025, we’re setting off on the biggest adventure we’ve planned so far: Desert Horizons 2025 — riding our motorcycle all the way from Poland to Oman.
Where did the idea come from? Honestly — curiosity and being bored of flying. Usually it’s the same routine: flight, rental car, quick tour, and back home. This time we want an adventure from door to door. On a motorcycle. A bit unusual, kind of against what’s considered a “normal” vacation.
The idea started to take shape after we bought our first Yamaha Tracer 7. Then came Robert Czerucki’s YouTube videos (props to him — riding back from Dubai to Poland through Afghanistan? Respect!) and the example of Szymon Bogdanowicz, who proved that “Stomik can do it”. We’ve been to the Middle East a few times already, but three blank spots on the map kept bugging us: Iraq, Kuwait, and Oman. And that was enough. Before this route becomes “mainstream,” we made the call: we’re going.
Why the Middle East, and why by motorcycle?
We’re not riding “just to Oman”. Sure, it’s our final stop and where we’ll stay the longest, but the entire road matters just as much. Cappadocia, Ankara, Iraq with Erbil and Baghdad, a quick hop to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia with Riyadh and Al-Ula — each of these places has its own spot on the map. It’s this mix that makes the journey worth it.
The motorcycle? Because we want to do it differently this time. Instead of flights and rental cars — it’s the road from door to door. It’s the freedom to choose, the chance to connect with people and places you’d never experience from behind a car window. Sure, there’s the fatigue and the sore backside — but along with it come stories you just can’t buy from a travel agency.
At first, our family looked at us with a bit of concern — Iraq, Saudi Arabia, or Oman don’t exactly sound like your typical vacation spots (and besides, the world isn’t just about mass tourism in Thailand or Italy). Now, though, they’re fully rooting for us. Our friends? They’re so hyped that sometimes they seem even more excited about it than we are.
As for the trip itself — we’re covering most of the costs ourselves, but we’re not completely on our own. A few partners and supporters chipped in: some with discounts, others with services, and two major partners even helped out with part of the budget. We’ve thanked them all on the trip’s page.
The route in brief
We hit the road on August 29, 2025, at 4:30 PM. We’ve got nearly 40 days ahead of us and a fixed return date — the tickets from Dubai to Warsaw are already booked. The plan is laid out, but we’re keeping it flexible: if something needs to be moved or skipped, we’ll move it or skip it.
Europe will just be the warm-up — crossing Slovakia and Bulgaria mostly for sleep and fuel stops. The real adventure begins in Turkey: a longer stop in Ankara, then Cappadocia. After that, we enter Iraq (Erbil and Baghdad), make a quick stop in Kuwait, and then head into Saudi Arabia — with Al Ula and Riyadh high on the list. From there, it’s a quick overnight in Abu Dhabi before finishing in Oman, with Muscat as our base.
The return? A bit less romantic — the motorcycle will fly back as cargo from Dubai, while we’ll take a plane to Warsaw.
What could go wrong?
Probably quite a lot. Trips like this can go smoothly from start to finish — but you have to anticipate some things along the way and also not be shocked if, say, a tire blows out mid-journey.
The motorcycle being under a lease is a whole other story. A regular vacation ride around Europe? No problem. But once you want to cross borders outside of Europe, suddenly every piece of paperwork matters. Authorizations, certified translations, legalizations… Before we even got the required approvals, the leasing company kept brushing us off for over half a year. Things only moved forward after we publicly reached out to the CEO on LinkedIn. Now we finally have the documents, but the bitter taste remains — and there’s still no guarantee that some border guard won’t decide we’re missing a word or a signature on the left side of the page.
And then there are the down-to-earth challenges: the Middle Eastern heat, the exhaustion from hours on the bike, equipment failures in places where there’s no BMW service around the corner. One flat tire in the middle of nowhere — and your whole day’s plan goes out the window.
We’re not expecting a worst-case scenario, but we know we can’t predict everything. That’s part of the adventure — sometimes the road decides what the journey will look like.
How we travel, where we sleep, and how to follow us
We’ve got the route roughly mapped out in kilometers, but not with a ruler in hand. We’re traveling light so the luggage doesn’t outweigh the bike — and so there’s room left for a few souvenirs. Instead of a tent, we’re going with hotels. In September, air conditioning sounds a lot better than sweating it out in a sleeping bag.
So how do you follow along? We’re not turning this trip into a reality show with location updates every five minutes. Instead, expect plenty of photos, reels, and stories — the stuff that really captures the vibe of the road. We’ll share everything on our Instagram and Facebook, and stage summaries will show up in the usual spots — we’ll let you know right before we set off.
Summary and… a little bit seriously
On the main project page ➡️ Desert Horizons 2025 ⬅️ you’ll find everything that matters: the route map, a list of articles, the current trip status, our gear, paperwork info, and partners. It’s like a mission control center you can always come back to if you miss something on social media or just want to check where we are in the journey.
And finally — no, we’re not out here to break records or prove anything. We’re chasing roads, stories, and people, because those stick with you far longer than the number of kilometers on the odometer. If you’re into that kind of vibe, stick around and see how it all goes. And if one day you set off on a similar journey and your backside hurts after the first week — trust us, that’s completely normal. 😅
