The idea

The idea of the After Abi Mission was born 3 years ago.

My friend Philip and me, Florian, two ambitionated 15 year old, wanted to travel the world looking for perfect waves.

In 2008 I came back from a trip to Northern Peru, where I surfed the 2nd longest wave in the world: Chicama...I told my friend Philip storys abouth two minute rides on the same wave... "We will surf it after we graduate from school"

In the German school system the graduational title is called "Abitur": So the "After Abi Mission" was born.

In November 2011 the months to get our Abitur were counted. We sat down together with my friend Denis at my place in Tenerife to realize the idea... With great iniciative it did not last 2 weeks and we got our first tickets to Malaysia and Australia, as we found them for a third of the usual price, still with our great objective to go to Peru afterwards.

Looking for 1 months every afternoon for tickets to get there, we finally got cheap ones across the Pacific, from Indonesia, over Bangkok, Los Angeles and Miami to Guayaquil in Ecuador, just 3 hours to the perfect Surfspots in Northern Peru...Thats how the surftrip to Peru turned into a voyage around the World over 5 continents in 8 months continuing from Peru south to Chile and Argentina, and finally to South Africa, returning home via Quatar and Barcelona in April...

Living dreams !





La idea de la
After Abi Mission (Misión Después del Abi) nació hace 3 años.

Mi amigo Felipe y yo, Florian, dos quinzea
ñeros ambicionados, queríamos viajar por el mundo en busca de olas perfectas.

En el 2008 volví de un viaje al norte de Perú, en el que cogi la ola segunda más larga del mundo: Chicama ... le conte a mi amigo Philip historias sobre dos minutos en la misma ola ... "Vamos a cogerla después de graduarnos"

En el sistema escolar alemán el título de graduacion se llama "Abitur": Así nacio el After Abi Mission.

En noviembre del 2011, los meses para acabar nuestro bachillerato estaban contados. Nos encontramos, juntos con mi amigo Denis en casa, en Tenerife, para realizar la idea ... Con gran iniciativa no duró mas de 2 semanas y sacamos nuestros primeros billetes, primero a Malaysia y luego a Australia, ya que los encontramos por un tercio del precio habitual, aún con nuestro gran objetivo de ir a Perú después.

En busca
de billetes baratos durante un mes todas las tardes , finalmente los encontramos a través del Pacífico, de Indonesia, via Bangkok (escala de 24h jeje) a Los Ángeles para luego ir a Miami y finalmente llegar a Guayaquil en Ecuador, a sólo 3 horas de las olas perfectas al norte del Perú ...
Asi es
cómo el surftrip a Perú se convirtió en un viaje alrededor de todo el mundo a traves de los 5 continentes en ocho meses continúando desde Perú direccion sur hasta Chile y Argentina, y luego a Sudáfrica, para volver a casa via Quatar y Barcelona la primera semana de Abril..

Viviendo
sueños !





Mittwoch, 28. Dezember 2011

The 3 day cruise through South Australia

We left the Grampians National Park the first week of November, still with 4000km ahead of us... Being in the far south of the Australian continent, we had only 10 days left to make it to the Top End !
So we left Victoria, and entered the state of South Australia...

first thing we saw: White kangoroos !

We only spend half a day in Adelaide, because we were in a hurry to make it through the desert in time.

Robin on the way to Port Agusta (last town before "nothing")

incredibly long freight trains crossed our way a few times !

and so did incredibly long "Roadtrains". They have up to 5 wagons !

"Pinkelpause"


beautiful birds in Port Agusta

We arrived in Port Agusta at midday and spend our last evening together with Francesco. We made pepperoni sausages, lamb noodles and ate Francis favorite crackers with herbs-cheese and olives and had a few beers; It was awesome !!


You can feel that Port Agusta is something like the end... Here the road splits in two: Either you go 3000km north to Darwin, or you go 3500km west to Perth, nothing in between, but really small villages and Roadhouses with petrol and a few groceries every 200kms...

After more than 6 weeks and 4000km on the road with Francesco it was time to say goodbye...

We left him at the beginning of the Eyre Highway that goes to Western Australia... He would put the finger out and make his way through the desert hitchhiking ! Arriving in Perth he would have circumnavigated Australia (25000km+) 

The beginning of the last trayect

nothing but red sand 

This part of the Stuart Highway was a functional "Emergency Air Strip" for the famous Royal Flying Doctor Service

all straight

salt lakes

Late in the afternoon, after leaving Port Agusta in the morning, we arrived in Coober Pedy

a place that looked like out of a Star Wars movie...

Didgeridoos and Opals en masse, but barely more...


sunset over Coober

The small town lives from its Opal Caves

cruising into the night again...

First sunset in the desert...

We drove until late after midnight dodging dead cows, kangoroos and accidentaly killing an eagle. The next morning we were already real close to the border of the "Northern Territory" 

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