Supporters

With all the preparation and planning that we have done for over a year before leaving, our journey would not be possible without the help and support of a number of other people. In particular now that we are on the journey, a strong ‘home base’ in Austria helps us to sort out some of the little or bigger problems that inevitably occur as we move on such as sending a package with those vital spare parts!

Foremost we thank our families and in particular our parents not only for the material support that they have always given us but also for their understanding of the unusual ideas we have always brought home. It is their open-minded approach and education that has nurtured our interest in discovering the world, its different cultures and people.

On 15.08.2008 we held our wedding in Segromigno in Monte (Toscana, Italy) and had a wonderful Sunflower Party. We thank all of our guests for all the presents which are now coming in very useful!

Equipment partners

The team of Radstudio Innsbruck (Peter, Thomas, Rainer and Armin) spent a lot of time with us figuring out just the right configuration of the bikes for our journey and act as our technical base back home.

Thanks to velotraum for the price reduction on our new ‘cross crmo II’ bike frames.

A great thanks to Christian Höckner of Löffler for the generous price reduction - we are proud to be wearing this high quality Austrian bike wear.

Mr. Mayer from Carinthia has been so kind as to provide us with two ‘ECC Expedition 800 sleeping bags’

We thank Werner Koch from Koch Alpin for the good price he made us for our MSR cooking equipment.

We are grateful to Robert Mayer from Sport and Outdoor for the price reduction on the best waterproof bike bags in the world from Ortlieb

Thanks to Roland ‘Kö’ Königshofer from adidas Austria for taking us down to his secret cellar…

Johann Pürmayr from Silhouette Austria has been so generous as to provide us with two ‘adidas evil eye’ sunglasses.

Technical support

Thanks to Sandro’s brother Fabio for the help in creating the technical environment for this website to run both at the beginning and for the long-distance support during the year and in particular after the website crash in March 2009. Thank you also to Markus Arnold from arnisoft for the assistance in hosting the website.

Medical partner

After taking a crash-course in medicine and first-aid from our expedition doctor Markus Saleh we are hopefully perfectly prepared for any medical issues on the road. Thanks also to Markus for putting together a medical kit that we hopefully will not open too often.