• STEEL HORSE TOUR

     

    Update December 2011
    Murray’s Story
    I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Colon Cancer at age 37 in March 2011.

    I lead a healthy and active life and had very few symptoms prior to diagnosis.

    I was in Peru on the Steel Horse Tour from Canada to Argentina, 15 countries, 30,000kms when I discovered I had an advanced illness that current conventional medical treatment cannot cure.

    The Murray McNab Healing Foundation registered charity is raising funds to enable me to undertake specialist treatment in China. The target is $120,000. This money is necessary to pay for 3 months of intensive SPDT treatment in China which is not currently available in Australia.

    Your help is greatly appreciated…….

    Murray McNab Healing Foundation

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    On a cold and crisp morning, wisps of an overnight dusting of snow swirl beneath the slowly rising garage door. Cool air fills the room and mixes with the anticipation, creating an elixir which penetrates the riders who sit in the saddle, anxious about an adventure. With the turn of the key their lives are about to change forever. Hand signals, 3-2-1, the deafening winter silence is broken by the sound of two 800cc BMW twin engines cranking over. Front tires roll from the hard, cold concrete, crunch over frost, and hit the asphalt and the open road. Radio silence is broken. The Steel Horse Tour has begun.

    The cumulation of two years of planning, countless email discussions, endless research and a friendly banker, finds two riders ready to set out with a compass heading of south. The next 120 days will find them riding through 15 countries on a motorbike adventure from Vancouver, Canada to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

    The Riders
    Loren Vercoe, 36 years old, traded his Sydney, Australian IT development job for a BMW F650GS and a GPS for a ride through Latin America. Having been brought up in Vancouver, Loren was the motivator to start the ride in Vancouver in the middle of winter. Hopefully the rest of his ideas on the trip are just as inspired.

    Murray McNab, 37 year old Australian from the Hunter Valley NSW, is taking a break from construction project management to eyewitness the Americas from a motorbike saddle. Murray has long visualised a motorbike trip through South America after a visit to Peru in 2004. The scenery, the people and the cultures are a combination that can only be truly experienced by embarking on such a journey.

    The Route
    Commencing in Vancouver, Canada the route heads south through the USA, Central America and South America, encompassing a minimum of 15 countries:

    1. Canada
    2. USA
    3. Mexico
    4. Guatemala
    5. El Salvador
    6. Honduras
    7. Nicaragua
    8. Costa Rica
    9. Panama
    10. Colombia
    11. Ecuador
    12. Peru
    13. Bolivia
    14. Chile
    15. Argentina

    The Goal
    Travel through Latin America to experience a wide variety of cultures, lifestyles, people, scenery and adventure. And of course, to go for a ride.