Author Description

In summer 2009 Ulf Claussen sets off for a trip with a small motor bike that shall lead him from Hamburg to Shanghai right across the Eurasian landmass. He is all on his own. Only two years before he got his driving license for motor bikes. His equipment consists of nothing more than a back pack and a plastic case on the bike. He has absolutely no experience in such undertakings. The overall time of two months for the trip is extremely tightly calculated. No wonder that even well-meaning advisers say: "You won’t even make Moscow." When he after 5 days and only 1,500 kilometers is sent back to Germany at the Ukrainian border because of wrong documents his failure already seems to be sealed. Read in his individual and humorous travel diary how he finally made it to Shanghai nevertheless.