Eduard López, the alma mater of Ride to Roots
Eduard López, the alma mater of Ride to Roots

Video: Eduard López, the alma mater of Ride to Roots

Video: Eduard López, the alma mater of Ride to Roots
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When the other day we talked about the presentations we had the opportunity to attend in the social tent of BMWRIDERS 2013There was, as we told you, one that caught our attention. Eduard Lopez, he is the founder with his wife Simona musumeci from Ride to Roots.

And what is the Ride to Roots? Well, almost better than explaining what it consists of, the proper thing is to read the words of both Eduard and Simona in which they explain the reason for its creation.

Ride to Roots
Ride to Roots

And said and done. One day they took their belongings and went to live in the south of Morocco. Fascinated by the continent, motorcycle trips, adventure and solidarity work, they founded Ride to Roots (R2R) and from there other projects.

Ride to Roots Meeting Point

Ride to Roots
Ride to Roots

They want their home, yes their home, to be a point of passage for all those travelers who want to get to know Africa on the back of their motorcycle. It is called Ride to Roots Meeting Point. A place to rest, regain strength, fix the motorcycle (a small workshop will be available soon for this) or simply a good place to stop along the way.

But it also serves as a base of operations for those more inexperienced who want to do some routes. For this, Eudard López, a great connoisseur of many of the nearby territories and routes, has been drawing up throughout the months traveled.

To these travelers he gives the points of interest (POI) so that they can make their route but with a single condition. This is that throughout your journey you must visit one of the nomadic villages with a purpose of solidarity.

Ride to Roots
Ride to Roots

The desert, the harsh conditions, the sand, create many eye problems. Especially children who with dirty hands take them to their faces. Conjunctivitis and other worse diseases are the order of the day.

For all those who want to follow one of the routes marked and explored by Eduard, as I said, they will have to go see one of these towns. Some will be in charge of observing how the children are, others will be the messengers loaded with medicines such as eye drops so that they can fight eye diseases and others will tell Eduard himself the evolution of those who are under treatment. A small gesture of enormous help.

In this way also, indirectly, travelers will penetrate further into the African continent. In its people, its customs, its way of life. May it never become the rich kid's playground.

Fennecus rescue

Ride to Roots
Ride to Roots

Parallel to Ride to Roots Meeting Point is being launched Fennecus rescue. Unfortunately a pleasant trip can be turned into hell by a bad fall, a sprain and bad luck.

Fennecus rescue It is a system by which the entire rescue process both people and vehicles in Morocco, thus facilitating and clearly explaining the steps that are necessary to carry them out.

But Fennecus Rescue goes further. Also contribute your experience to organize trips, make roadbooks, give information to travelers, or even support vehicle routes, 4x4 or raids. And precisely the raid, one of the passions of Eduard Lopez, is the last stop.

The Wally Raid. Where is the photo?

Ride to Roots
Ride to Roots

The Wally raid is already in preparation. It is a raid open to everyone for several days in which participants will have to find the places where the photos they will provide were taken.

To discover them, they will have several checkpoints on the GPS. Once in their vicinity, they will have to find the exact location to make them a similar photo. Some will be easy, some will be difficult, and some will be impossible.

The route can be done in the order you want with a single premise: go through two mandatory checkpoints, one in the middle of the raid and another that will be the goal. As you can see, it is based on the children's book Where's Wally? but taken a step further.

The page is currently under construction and below you have all the links to deepen the information that we have exposed here. Many Thank you both to Eduard Lopez like Simona musumeci for the information and good luck with your projects there in Morocco.

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