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 !





Freitag, 27. Januar 2012

The Top End Aus Kaputt

The Route through Down Under, almost 8000km !

We sold the car within 24h and were busy to pack our stuff in our backpacks, it was just way too much, we had bought over the time in OP shops and recycling centers

goodbye Old Lady... The new owner turns around the corner... Last glince

next day at Darwin Airport: Philip packing the boards for Indonesia

just a two and a half hour flight to Bali

Goodbye Australia ...


We spent glorious two month on the continent, now it was time for some Indo action








Dienstag, 24. Januar 2012

The tropical North

So we made our way North; the weather became stormy eventually and then our endless road looked like this...

Mataranka hot springs

warmest water ever in this little Oasis

there were some tree branches

we dived under

& around

Our travelmate "matt" from some place in France... We picked him up in Alice Springs just after tanking and making our "24h-trip" to Darwin. We left him here... He decided to put up a tent at the parking place there...

Another strom coming up.

Hughe termite mounds... This one was about the biggest, there were plenty big ones at the side of the road every hundred meters...

These ones belong to the Magnetic termites who orientate their mounds with the help of the earths magnetic field... crazy to look at

Litchfield National Park... a little paradise


Epic day !

"Alice Springs" or "The Odyssey"


After the half of the desert-crossing and 2000km we finally arrived in civilization.

NT lovers

RFDS

old telegraph of the Royal Flying Doctor Service

downtown

didgeridoos

the ATM's had beautiful aboriginal art on it...

We love Down Under

Alice Springs, protected by the Hills to the West

only two ways to go on the endless Stuart Highway... Our final Australian destination and terminal city was Darwin on the far North ...We were in Alice Springs on the 8th of November with the broken car and had our flight the next day on midday of the 9th and practically only 24h to make the 1500km to the airport... It was mental ! After recharging our batteries in the morning, we decided to drive through, overnight and make it to the Check-In to Bali ...At 1pm after having fully tanked + our extra fuel gallons and buying more water and pasta we started our crazy drive north...

our cruising speed over the continent had always been the soft and safe 80kmh... But with the hurry we decided to drive 90 kmh

Roadtrains always on

In between Alice and Tennant Creek (city halfway to Darwin) we passed this old Telegraph station that once was the only way of communication of the big Australian citys like Sydney with the rest of the world...

double rainbow in the hot rain

another sunset in the desert... We drove the whole night until 2am and arrived in the small town of Tennant Creek ... There our car battery went completely flat... At least we had made 700km from Alice !! As we saw, that at the petrol station nobody wanted to recharge our battery we "gave up" and decided to stay in town, we had no choice really...

At the petrol station in Tennant was a local men who told us, that he had a friend 300km north in a village called Elliot, who he remembers had an alternator (our broken piece) for a Mitsubishi '88 like ours... Somebody says the deserts small...

We arrived at the workshop in Elliot and repaired our Alternator...
The men who repaired our car had plates from all over the world... every continent and almost every single country !!
the broken piece

He also changed the completely screwed tyre
a few kms more and we wold have been really ******


  As we made our way north (we had already missed our ongoing flight to Indonesia) the landscape turned more and more green; It was amazing to see the change, from the far and could south through the hot and dry center to the tropical North.......