Austrian Alps

Traunsee, Saltzgammergut

Some of the finest scenery you will ever find is in Austria. As we crossed the border from CZ back into Austria the roads got better, the scenery which had been beautiful along the Vltava river, with the road winding from Cesky to almost the border got even more spectacular with the terrain changing from treed forest to more open rolling land.

Steeples --- Churches and Mountains

Nothing compares the the volume of church steeples that are in each town, nestled in a small valley in between the rolling hills. And in the distance we could see the looming Austrian Alps near Gmunden.


Gmunden is situated on one of the Salzkammergut - Dachstein lakes which are east of Salzburg and south of Linz.

Near Gmunden

Day Trip to Salzburg

Mozart in Salzburg

As we rode the volume of motorcycles increased as we drove south. By the time we arrived in Radstadt we must have seen 150- 200 bikes in a 100 km stretch of Alpine road, and maybe 75 cars and 50 trucks. This is an area we will be spending some time in now that our agenda has been 90% completed, and we would like to organize a European ride here for our friends we have ridden with for so long.

Our Salzburg Experience and the Augustine Brewery

So follow this blog over the next few days and see if any of this might interest you. Since we are keeping the bike here for at least another year, if there is interest we can easily arrange some rentals, and organize accommodation and use a central spot to ride out from each day without the need to haul all your gear. This would allow some riders who want to take a day off to do so and still see some neat tourist sites. 


This area is great in late August early Sept. we have been here at this time before and in June. It can be rainy then, though when we came thru the rains had passed that year. Right now its in the high 20’s and sunny.

It was so clear the Eagles Nest
Hitlers Hideway was revealed

Well we have ridden in this area now for 3 days. Just awesome roads. And today I have mapped a set of motorad roads all the way into Italy on the way to Venice.


We get an early start since the forecast is for mid-30’s later today and the next 5 days. The Overtavern road and connector to Gmund is just fantastic and hardly any traffic on it. We shot 1:34 hrs of video today of the various different roads. They are so fantastic, and we road all the way to Venice and our favorite B&B the Villa Gasparini. This time the deal is even better because we booked on booking.com and got a 30% discount off the summer rate. (Too low to put up here). And you’ll have to wait until we edit our video footage and pictures of the Alps/Dolomites to get a sense as to how great it is, but you can easily count it by the # of moto’s we passed on the road. Radstadt to Venice in 1 day, I didn’t think it could be done. One pass the road warns of a 15% grade, another 12%. It is motorcycle heaven.