23/07/2007 THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

I guess we did it!

It's almost time to say goodbye. Continental flight CO39 heading for New York will leave Oslo in just a few hours.

and that's when reality will hit with a vengeance. Before that happens there's something I need to say, and that is, first of all:

THANK YOU  Chris for being such a great riding partner and knowledgeable, patient roadcaptain. ( I know it can get out of hands, when I stop every few minutes to take pictures and you have to keep reminding me how far we still have to go, sorry!)

A very special thanks to Sally, Rolando and Beda for their extended efforts coming along and helping with the filming on the road,

thanks to Jelena for all the hard work and the sleepless nights with programming the website

thanks to Myriam for running my office in my absence ,

thanks to my agents Tina, Bill, David, Anoush and Yoshiko for making sure I won't be out of work after this trip, 

and thanks to everyone who has been involved with this project, anyone who has encouraged or helped us along the way, either before or during the trip.

At this point I want to thank all the SPONSORS who have helped make this dream become reality, without which this would have not been possible.

Thanks to Nick at New York City Choppers ( www.nycchoppers.com) who has proved his craft by helping me put together one of the toughest and most dependable shovelhead rigid frames out there. 24 thousand kilometres on some hardcore roads in Albania, Russia , the former eastbloc and some of the scandinavian roads without any significant trouble!! (besides the clutchcable there was nothing major and that's just peanuts, the handle is probably machined to sharp.)

Thanks to Stefan at Overnight Kurier (www.overnight.ch) for the extended help with logistics and the chase-vehicle.

Thanks to Michi at Nokia (www.nokia.ch)  for believing in us and the True-Spirit project and for pursuing the idea of publishing a book with my pictures from the trip. I guarantee you won't be disappointed!

Thanks to Jennifer Caruso-Schweizer and the whole sunrise team (www.sunrise.ch) for being our telecommunications partner, for making sure we are well connected in all of these 25 countries and making sure that the upload of the blog is working perfectly!

Thanks to Christoph Haas at Harley-Davidson Switzerland (www.harley-davidson.com) for their great support and  help with this project!

Thanks to POM at Sony (www.sony.ch) for providing us with the Videoequipment for this long period of time!

Thanks to Orhan from Jet (www.jetenergydrink.com) for giving us all the energy we need!

Thanks to American Spirit (www.slowsmoking.ch) for their support!

Thanks to Rayban for the eyeglasses (www.ray-ban.com) dropped one pair, but didn't even scratch my favourite pair!

Thanks to Victorinox (www.victorinox.com) and all the knives that proved to be great gifts on our trip!

Thanks to Hallwag, Kuemmerli & Frey ( www.swisstravelcenter.ch) for all the free maps covering the whole tour!

And of course i want to thank everyone that rode with us along the way,anyone welcoming us, anyone that provided us with a place to stay or fed us( two hungry fellas) and all of the people, who have supported us with their words or in their thoughts.

Stephan

p.s.

since there have been a lot of silent bloggers, i urge you to sign up on the main website (www.true-spirit.com ) so that we can be sure to inform you about the release of the book and the DVD, or any future project.