Travelling the world by motorbike

As some of you may know I'm quite a maps-freak. I can spend hours looking at maps, plotting out routes and exploring the world through Google Earth. Something that is greatly appreciated by friends who join met on a motorcycle trip.

A few months ago I discovered routeyou.be, a Belgian starterup that helps you find the nicest route to travel. Yesterday I saw them mentionned on TechCrunch and plunged back into the site to compose some routes for my motorcycle travel website: www.mototravel.be. It's all in Dutch but the routes and pictures have no language of course.

What especially interresting about routeyou.com is that they have a feature that gives you the nicest route between two points. I haven't figured out exactly how they do it, but it works fine. And by switching "automatic" and "manual" you can combine normal roads with paths less travelled. Perfect if you go mountain biking or off-road motorcycling. Here is an off road bike route I made that mixes off road and real road.

Jim Rogers confuses the CNBC peeps

This is hilarious and shocking at the same time. The guy/lady interviewing Jim clearly do not get the answers they wanted to get.
What do I learn: If I had money, I'd put it in Swiss Franks and Gold too, or in something tangible (like a house or so). We're heading for an inflationary holocaust (quote from Jim) and the "solution" will be the installment of a new global currency (and a world bank managed by the same people that are causing this crisis) in the way we had "Operatie Gutt" in Belgium in 1944.

About authenticity & why people go to conferences

At least the "Stichting Marketing" is honest and "authentic" about the fact that most marketeers visit the annual marketing conference mainly for the gift bag. So if you go there for the first time this year, and you wonder why the second day there's only 1/3 of the people left ... they are unpacking the giftbag they get on friday.

When we were sponsoring the conference last year there were clear instructions to concentrate all communication on the content and a bit on networking, which gave me hope for the future quality of the conference. But choosing authenticity as a theme apparently is driving the focus of the conference to the "authentic motivation" of many congres-visitors ... the gift bag.

Looks like there is an opportunity here for someone to organize a conference where learning from speakers and colleagues is the focus.