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One Condition · Part 9 of 10The final boss and 707 kilometers home
Day 9 of a motorcycle trip: the Stelvio Pass with its 48 hairpins, Switzerland over the Umbrail and 707 kilometers all the way home.
One Condition · Part 8 of 1042 degrees Celsius in Lombardy
Day 8 of a motorcycle trip: 357 kilometers from Viareggio through Lombardy's 42 degrees Celsius, along the Gardesana and up into the cooler Trentino.
One Condition · Part 7 of 10A friend and a camera
Day 7 of a motorcycle trip: 201 kilometers through Tuscany to the sea, to a friend in Viareggio. And a camera that Croatia didn't have.
One Condition · Part 6 of 10A table without a host
Day 6 of a motorcycle trip with Lisa on the back: escape from the coast at Rimini over San Marino and the Apennines. In the evening the manager of a closed winery set our table.
One Condition · Part 5 of 10A room in an hour
Day 5 of a motorcycle trip with Lisa on the back: from the night ferry in Ancona out to the sea near Fano. And a hotel where nobody spoke the other's language.
One Condition · Part 4 of 10The coffee, the bakery and a very spontaneous ferry
Day 4 of a motorcycle trip: no coffee in the apartment, 210 kilometers of nothing to Split, a ferry office behind a glass door and a night on deck to Ancona.
One Condition · Part 3 of 10The wind that makes you lean to go straight
Day 3 of a motorcycle trip to Croatia: a bora storm on the coast road near Senj, the first look at the sea, a ferry to Pag and a sign with a bed on it.
One Condition · Part 2 of 10Ahead of the thunderstorm over the Grossglockner
Day 2 of a motorcycle trip with a passenger: ahead of a thunderstorm front over the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, through the Soča Valley, and one sentence at a hotel desk.
One Condition · Part 1 of 10Croatia. That was the whole plan.
Day 1 of a motorcycle trip with Lisa on the back: eighteen years with a license, one word as a plan, and 563 kilometers from Franconia to Inzell.

Everyone knows the Stelvio Pass. But do you know the south side of the Vršič?
Planning a mountain pass ride? Here are the numbers: 16 famous pass roads measured, from the Stelvio Pass and the Grossglockner to the Transfăgărășan. The best-known aren't the twistiest.