Lavi Scholl and Ollie Gamblin, now 32 and 34, visited 39 different countries, including Morocco, Argentina, and Mongolia, during their record-setting 589-day motorbike trip and even found time to squeeze in a quick wedding. “It was quite an endeavor to set out and say, ‘Right, we’re going to do this,’” Gamblin, from the UK, tells CNN Travel. “We didn’t really know how long it was going to take.
We didn’t know whether we’d get to the end.” Record-setting journey The couple, who tied the knot while riding through Las Vegas last year, first met while they were both working on a farm in Australia in 2017 and began traveling together soon after. “I had a campervan at the time,” adds Gamblin, explaining that Scholl had been camping in tents while traveling in her car.
“And Lavi thought it would be a good upgrade to join me in the camper van.” After departing Australia, Scholl and Gamblin spent around five and a half months hiking around New Zealand. “We realized that we both have a passion for overland (travel),” says Scholl, from Germany.
Keen to take things further, the couple began planning a cycling trip around the world. However, after going on a short test run, they decided that it’d be too “exhausting” and would “probably take years and years and years.” “So we decided the best form of travel would be a motorcycle,” says Gamblin, who has had a motorcycle license since he was 17.
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