JAPY

My story with motorcycles starts like so many others: with my family against it and having to find my own way to ride.

I bought my first motorcycle with money earned working in a workshop. It was wrecked after a crash. The second one, much the same. And so, between scrap metal and patience, began what would become a whole life devoted to two wheels.

Since then, more than twenty motorcycles have passed through my garage. Classics, trail bikes, enduros, a small Chinese 125 I rode across part of Africa, and the Japanese bikes that carried me on my two round-the-world trips. Each one has its own personality and purpose, and every one of them taught me something different.

I also discovered another of my great passions: restoring old motorcycles. The problem is that I start out wanting to rescue a forgotten machine and, once I have brought it back to life, I am incapable of selling it. So the collection keeps growing.

But if anything truly defines my life, it is travel.

Living in the Canary Islands does not exactly make it easy to set off around the world on a motorcycle. But I am stubborn, hard-headed and very clear about what I want. That has taken me through 83 countries on two wheels, always alone. No support crew, solving whatever the road throws at me as it comes.

In 2010 I crossed the Americas from Argentina to Alaska: 25 countries and almost 50,000 kilometres. I rode through eight sand deserts and one of salt, suffered 14 breakdowns, temperatures from −6 °C to +44 °C, two attempted robberies and even the impounding of my bike. There was illness too, roads that forced me to turn back, and many moments when I simply had to improvise. I reached the end without a single fall and with thousands of photographs, videos and experiences that changed the way I travel forever.

That same year I rode across southern Europe as far as Greece on a BMW F800GS. In 2012 I travelled through Senegal and Gambia on a 125 cc Chinese bike and confirmed something I still defend: you do not need a big engine to live a great adventure.

In 2014 I rode all seven Canary Islands and every one of their municipalities in three and a half days, setting a record that still stands.

And in 2015 came my first solo round-the-world trip. On my Suzuki V-Strom I covered 36,000 kilometres and 14 countries, crossing continents, borders and roads I had only ever seen on a map.

Now, in 2026, I am in the middle of my second round-the-world trip. I have already ridden more than 20,000 kilometres and crossed 22 countries on my 2025 Suzuki V-Strom. The journey started in Spain and continues towards Australia before carrying on around the planet. No rush. No fixed deadlines. Letting the wind and the road decide.

Over all these years I have slept in forgotten villages, shared a table with families who had little and still offered me everything, repaired bikes with wire and ingenuity, and discovered that when you do not share a language with someone, a smile and a genuine willingness to help are usually enough.

After so many kilometres I still feel almost exactly the same every time I start a motorcycle.

I do not travel for fame, money or recognition. I travel because it is where I feel alive. Because on the road I find answers I had never found before. Because every journey changes me and turns me into a better version of myself.

Japy Around World was born out of all of that.

Here you will find travel chronicles, thoughts from the road, advice for future travellers and, above all, proof that dreams, however crazy they seem, can come true if you push the handlebars forward and never let go.

Welcome to my world. Welcome to my road.