A little more than a year later they returned home, having spent only some $10,000 and covering 30,000 land miles, and 11,000 miles on ships. They had some financial support from a German magazine, but essentially this would be a trip done on the cheap. Then it was mostly a sea route to San Francisco, off-loading the outfit in Hong Kong and Japan along the way. In February they left the cold German winter and headed for warm southern Italy, followed by Istanbul and points east to India. In 1953, Europe was just getting out of the post-war miseries, and this father/son team, both being journalists and photographers, bought a 600cc Zundapp with sidecar. But all was fixed eventually and the journey continued.Īround The World With Motorcycle And CameraĪround the World with Motorcycle and Camera And then found that local mechanics had metric tools, while the Panther was done in Whitworth sizes. Unfortunately, the extreme heat and deep sand caused the engine to fail, and they ended up in Agades, waiting for more than a month for spare parts to come from England. Theirs may well have been the first motorcycle crossing of the Sahara Desert, taking the relatively well-traveled Tamanrasset Route. In December of 1934, Wallach and a friend left London, headed for South Africa, riding a Panther M100 motorcycle with a Watsonian sidecar and trailer.

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