didn’t fill the void left by not travelling … he needed his
bike …
In many ways it was the music industry that sent Mike
to Colombia, as he explains, “the music industry had
basically crashed in Denmark, so I took the chance to go
travelling to South America.”
“I was in Colombia for five days when I met Diana and
we fell deeply in love,” he beams. There’s a special con-
nection between Mike and Diana.
“We got married, had our daughter and opened our
business that year,” Mike is passionate. “And the rest is
history.”
Mike explains that Colombia wasn’t even on his radar,
its reputation was enough to make him think twice. He
took a chance and has never looked back.
“I ended up amazed by the country’s incredible natu-
ral beauty. The mountains, the jungle, the ocean. Every
shade of green.”
He continues that the people of Colombia have an atti-
tude like nowhere else on Earth. They want “to leave the
painful past behind”, the country is improving day by day
with an “entrepreneurial energy”.
It was this attitude that drew Mike in, he could see that
his future was in the South American country. Mike and
Diana opened a backpacker’s hostel and after six years
of business they realised that perhaps there was another
opportunity. Many of the travellers had shown an inter-
est in Mike’s bike, often parked out the front. The couple
spent the last of their money on a second bike and started
offering guided tours through the country.
“Eleven years on, motorcycle tours and rentals are our
main business,” the passion is showing again, Mike loves
taking visitors through ‘his’ country on two wheels. Mike
admits that it’s a ‘lifestyle business’ and not one that will
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