MOTODIARY OF LETIM

2011 in review

letim — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:27:19 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

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A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1 300 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 22 trips to carry that many people.

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2011 in review

letim — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:25:15 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1 300 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 22 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

I HAVE A NEW BLOG FOR MY JOURNEY

letim — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:40:07 +0000

Please go to www.letim.fi

It´s my new blog for my journey Round the Europe

MOTORCYCLES – MADE IN FINLAND

letim — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:00:25 +0000

We had a big Motorcycle exhibition here in Jyväskylä. Some logal bikers have made their own motorcycles!

Click to view slideshow.

I´M ALREADY TRAINING FOR MY ADVENTURE

letim — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:18:03 +0000

We have still very nice winter here in Finland. I´m training for my journey by skiing! Let´s hope that snow melts before I go to Hungary. This video tells you about one training session with a shadowman. Snow is yellow because Monkey People have been there before me.

Liher Pillado 26. maaliskuuta

dear letim!I´m very excited about your upcoming trip, wish I could share it with you. I heard you have had some critical moments the last few days but I just wanted to encourage you to make the trip happen. It´s funny that as human beings as the trip comes closer there are some tipping points when we are not sure anymore if we want to make it happen. It´s just fear, basically air at the end. TA network needs you to make the trip happen letim, I´m really sure that it will change your life too. I´m leaving on sunday to San Francisco for a month, but I´ll be waiting for you in may. Big hugs from Paris my friend!

Dear Lihis Kahdella Nakilla. Actually I have those feelings you descriped in your message. Am I anymore ready for the adventure? But naturally it´s time to go and jump to the improvident experience. Thank you for your encouraging words! See you in Basque Country. Letim

ME & BASQUE COUNTRY

letim — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:08:05 +0000

MY ROUTE IS: FINLAND - GERMANY -  CZECH - SLOVAKIA - HUNGARY -
SLOVENI - ITALY - FRANCE - BASQUE COUNTRY - BELGIUM -
HOLLAND - DENMARK - SWEDEN - FINLAND

I have visited Basque Country only once. We took part to the Team Mastery session in Arantzazu in spring 2009. This will be the second time.

I composed a nice song named “Tuned by the Mountains”. Please listen to it.

Anssi Pietiläinen: hei ihan huikeita kuvia timppa

Timo Hyväri: jätkä ollu naimisissa pitempään kuin meikä elossa.

Vilma Mutka: Go Letim!

Seppo Lähdekorpi: Aja ensin ja jännitä sit kotona saunassa. Muistojen arkisto täyttyy tällämenol kovaa vauhtii. Että menoksi vaan. Kerran se kirpasee.

Timo Kuva: Ja eikun hanaa! Ompahan jotain muisteltavaa sitten vanhainkodissa!

Some bikers have driven to Arantzazu:

ME & HUNGARY

letim — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:54:41 +0000

I travelled first time to Hungary in year 1974. I was 16 years old! We were in the InterRail-trip around the Europe with my good friend Jukka. In a train from Budapest to Balaton-lake we met Károly Kovács. We visited his home in Nagykanizsa. It was beginning of the life-long frienship. In that time Károly worked in a big oilcompany as a technical translater and after our visit he started to study finnish.

In year 1981 we participated into Pannonia-Rally in Sirok (near Egér). We drove with my girlfriend on a small MZ motorcycle over 3500 km from Finland to Hungary and back.

We participated into Pannonia-Rally also in year 1982 (Budapest) and 1983 (Vác). After Pannonia-Meeting in Vác we had a sisterweek with Budai Motorclub. We got engaged during that week. After the rings were bought from Budapest we had a nice engage-party with our finnish and hungarian biker-friends.

We got married in 1984 and our first son was born in summer 1985.

At that time we had to change our motorcycles to a car. When our son Leo-Matti was one year old we made a camping-journey to Hungary and Austria. We met Károly Kovács and invited him to visit us in Finland (he was in Finland first time in 1982).

Károly “Kalle” spend few weeks in Finland in 1987 and in 1993 we made a hiking trip to Lapland.

We were ready to take part to Károly´s 80-years birthday-party on january 2007, but we got a very sad message from Hungary: he had been overdriven by a lithuanian lorry in a foggy morning of December.

“Kalle” is buried to the cemetery of Nagykanizsa and it would be nice to ride there and spend a moment beside his grave during this journey.

Károly was a technical translater but also a great painter. This is one of his paintings made in a oilfield which is on fire.

Photo here under: home journey from Budapest with technical problems!

Kirjoitettu 19.3.2011 klo 21.47

Suurin piirtein samalla aikataululla lähden USA:n route 66:lle 3vko ajorupeamalle, joten kulussa ollaan. Jos nyt 97v vanhus ei muuta suunnitelmaa, sitten se siirtyy.
Viivyn vielä muutamia päiviä Californiassa enon luona. Takaisin Suomeen kesäkuun aluksi.
Onnea matkaanTimo!

THE GOALS OF MY JOURNEY

letim — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:43:40 +0000

I have tried to define the goals of my journey.

I think there will be lot of fun but also I will…..

have many good opportunities to learn
help the coaches and teamentrepreneurs
share tagit kowledge and experiences
create new network
experience something unforgettable

I´LL START MY ENGINE 23.4.2011!

letim — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:36:28 +0000

I have got THE PERMISSION to go! Start the engine on saturday 23th of april.

I will stay in Hungary, Team Academy Debrecen, 28.4.-6.5.2011
Continue my adventure via Alps to Irun, Basque Country 7.5.-15.5.2011
I´ll work in Team Academy Mondragon 16.5.-3.6.2011
I visite in Angers´Team Academy 6.-7.6.2011
I visite also Team Academy Harlem 9.-10.6.2011
Back to Finland about 15.6.2011

Timo Lehtonen

Lähtölaskenta on alkanut! Jamk on antanut virallisen siunauksen suunnitelmalleni ajaa Euroopan ympäri prätkällä ja käydä matkalla niin monen Team Academy yhteistyökumppanimme luona kuin mahdollista.

Matti Ikäläinen Nyt olen kade.

Timo Lehtonen Lähden liikkeelle jo huhtikuussa, silloin ei sun Kawan renkaissa ole vielä pitoa, kun on niin kylmä asvaltti!

Seppo Lähdekorpi Onneksi olkoon. Melkein tässä olen kv

Reijo Lahtonen Muuramen kautta jos koukkaat – tarjoan siunatut sumpit mennen tullen. Milläs pelillä päästelet?

Mika Hölttä Muista renkaanpaikkaussarja ja sadeasu..;) Team Ahman sanoin…turvallista matkaa!

Timo Kantola Mahtava juttu! Rautalankaa ja hohtimet mukaan! Ja jeesusteippiä. Pistä tänne aikatauluasi ja reittiä, jos nähtäis huhtikuussa Saksassa.

Hanna Kontro Huh! En vieläkään ymmärrä miten jaksat istua ja ajaa sen koko matkan.. Tällä ansaitaan jo ihmevalmentajan arvonimi. Mahtavaa reissua!:)

Timo Kuva Millä laitteella lähdet matkaan?

Milla Muhonen Onnea Letim!

Timo Lehtonen Matkaan siis BMW R850R vuosimallia 1996. Peli laitetaan matkakuntoon alan johtavien asiantuntijoiden voimalla Kuvan Moottoripalvelussa huhtikuussa. Navigaattori on jo hankittu ja viimoisen päälle hyvä.

Timo Kantola Oiva pyörä sulla, oon itselle katsellu kans samanlaista taikka sitten isommalla koneella.

YELLOW HELMET – SAFE AND “MONKEY BUSINESS KIND” (FUNNY) RIDING

letim — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:59:10 +0000

Yesterday I bought me a helmet – yellow one! It´s not very common colour among bikers. They normally buy black, red or blue.

I wanted to be radical and also wanted to be visible in traffic. There´s lot of cars in the motorways of Europe and everybody drives too fast. I`ll try to survive with a yellow helmet and with ”Happy Monkey” attitude.

I am the first “Godfather” of Monkey Business. That title obligates. Dog in the picture is Sulo owned by my son Leo-Matti. He visites us every sunday. He is also a very happy dog! Sulo recomments you to click that document here under.

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Don´t ask me how are my english studies. They are in a prosess. For examble I translated all my dreams into english last night!

See you soon!

Mikko Korpela
businessarena.fi
82.103.196.174

Kirjoitettu 6.3.2011 klo 20.56

Ja vinkkejä kaikille Euroopan valloittajille, erityisesti ystävälleni LeTimille. Huomio ehkä maailman hienoin tieosuus Romaniasta, Transfagarasan Higway.

Lupaan itse ajaa pätkän ennenkuin täytän 50!

http://www.inyourpocket.com/romania/The-Transfagarasan-Highway_55534f?more=1

Onnea kaikkiin riemullisiin haasteisiin