SUP Danube | A River Journey | Germany - Serbia

[@ouijiboards1946]

I guess persistence is the red lining in your life. Your character inspires me! Thnx man!

[@whoisadam]

Persistence or being slightly crazy... I do like to move.

[@LoadedBoards]

Amazing trip and video Adam! Glad you made it back in one piece!

[@bkxc]

Super cool, dude!! What an adventure.

[@lonepaddle2069]

Cool trip!! Thanks for sharing! Greetings from the west coast of Canada 👍

[@VinceTibo]

I love your adventures so much man, you inspired me to go on some distance skating trips! I skated a tiny 270 km over two trips, one of which I came back from less than a week ago. I don't have interesting video equipment though so I'll leave the amazing trip videos to you! These trips really made me discover more about the world and about myself and are really unique experiences, so thank you so much for being so inspirational!

[@supermichael2084]

Cool. Adam also inspired me to skake to Tibet in 2015.

[@testmonsterification]

Glad your both getting after it. Big or small doesn't matter how long or how far the adventure is, cool your getting out exploring. Tis fun. I love to move.

[@djmoopha]

Wow, this video definitely inspired me to do something similar. I'm from Serbia actually and live in the USA and love to paddle board. Just continue doing what you do, I love it.

[@whoisadam]

Glad to lend some inspiration to you, doing SUP trips is a fun way to travel.

[@davidchabot9927]

I've always enjoyed your content, the adventures & humor. Thanks for sharing - hope to see more in the future! Wishin you all the best from Canada!

[@testmonsterification]

Thanks. Perhaps Ill go back and finish up the Danube in 2018 and film that trip as well.

[@andrewiconkerr]

You're the best! Loved this, along with your other travels. Looking forward to more :D

[@whoisadam]

Perhaps next year I'll have another adventure to document.

[@andrewiconkerr]

Well, if you come to Cape Town, South Africa, let me know and I'll buy you an ice cold beverage! :D

[@Aport0217]

Your adventures are great! Very inspiring. Ive been watching since before the Long treks days and have always enjoyed the content. Keep it up

[@whoisadam]

Sweet, glad you enjoyed. Yeah SUP traveling not the most entertaining to watch compared to traveling by skateboard but I tried to edit in a way that hopefully flowed alright and still showed a lot of the trip.

[@samuelduncan6209]

So strange, I came across this after looking at SUP tours and saw "Adam Colton" and thought that rings a bell. Next thing I'm 2 hours deep rewatching trick tips with Adam and Adam re-living my youth. Amazing trip btw! Very inspiring if I can ever get overseas again

[@whoisadam]

Funny how that works. I had a ticket bought to go back this year and finish the river but COVID hit so got cancelled.

[@samuelduncan6209]

@@whoisadam that's sucks man! I'll be keeping an eye out for a follow up vid one day 👍 might need to replicate the Murray trip if I can't get out of Vic

[@christopherbaileyhughes9982]

Absolutely awesome mate

[@whoisadam]

Thanks was a rad trip :)

[@DennisWethmar]

Love your trips!

[@karolyszabo6658]

Great tour, congratulations! Do not miss Hungary from the list of the countries at the beginning of the video :) I wish you all the best!

[@markvandervorst6038]

Wow, very inspirational trip 🤙🏼🤙🏼

[@mikeskor6230]

Really enjoyable trip. Great shots, vomit and all.

[@whoisadam]

Yeah, I had to include the vomit shot, hahah, nice and close up on it. ; )

Grip Slide Speed, good to see you paddling, great Journey, Great Vid, many thanks for sharing your adventure

[@krempo997]

Amazing adventure, SUP is great for Danube"!

[@whoisadam]

Thanks, was a good memory this trip.

[@chrisgeorge510]

I love it! It was waaaay too short. I want more!

[@AndrewMarhefka]

Those views 👌 I laughed at some of your narrating. Cool you got a little company !

[@Tracerduck]

Some crocodile wrestling would have been fun. Keep in mind if you ever do the Nile.

[@JakeRawSon]

loved your vid man. That lighting strike looked intense. Planning to do something like this on the columbia river this summer.

[@whoisadam]

Nice, buy SUP or Kayak? Water travel is so nice, Im a fan.

[@JakeRawSon]

Adam Colton by sup

[@PADDLECAMPFISH]

Good stuff man! Just found this video and am really impressed!

[@whoisadam]

Thanks, yeah I hope to finish up the Danube in 2019 perhaps.

[@vulkanov]

Cool content, man🤙🤙🤙 amazing trip

[@luvmsiahatethegov]

Dude, I miss his filmmaking for Loaded so much. Even with such simple equipment, he knows how to get the chill-est shots

[@whoisadam]

Thanks, yeah it was fun filming and editing for Loaded. We had some fun times creating those videos, good memories and I'm glad the videos live on youtube for many years to come.

[@lucasfurque3561]

Increíble!! Saludos de Argentina

[@RalfZille]

Wow! Bike for travel, then kanu/kayak for travel and now SUP for travel.

[@whoisadam]

Yeah SUP travel is a fun way to go.

[@martin123martin96]

Such nice scenery, and I can't believe how fucking hilarious you are man, can't stop laughing. You just won a new follower.

[@whoisadam]

Thanks for the nice comment, yeah having a good sense of humor is key. Plus these trips are good times for me to work on my singing.

[@iarmaroc]

Awesome as always! Definitely come to Romania 🇷🇴

[@testmonsterification]

Will do, perhaps next year.

[@iarmaroc]

Nice, let me know if I can help with anything!

[@benskai2475akurfishing]

perjalan yang asik dan petualang yang asik

[@johnmcfadzean2388]

I love this video. Did you ever return to paddle the rest of the river

[@whoisadam]

Glad you enjoyed the video, I had plan tickets bought and all the gear and then covid happened, have not tried since.

[@PeterStanley]

Wondering if you were able to do the Romanian section?. Awesome trip and thanks for sharing.

[@whoisadam]

I was going to do the rest of the danube this year had my tickets bought but due to covid I had to cancel it. Maybe 2021.

[@pedroewert143]

wow man amazing - do you need to cross the border at an official spot? didn know what sup-board were capable off with gear and so on. how was the current in austria - did you ever fall in/lose the board?

[@whoisadam]

Yeah so only time I got pulled over was crossing into Serbia all the other boarders just paddled boarded on by :). Current was fairly slow whole trip, some faster moving current by all the locks. Never fell in, had a couple close calls :).

[@pedroewert143]

@@whoisadam thank you. I hope to see more of your adventures

[@martijnvincent5]

Super dope!! Lol i think the spot with the barges is pretty criminal, saw a vice documentary on the guys who steal oil from those barges. Would really love to do a trip like this once.

[@theadventurebeginstv]

Awesome trip and video Adam. Do you think this trip could be done in a packraft? I saw some of the sections with the headwinds which would make it interesting.

[@whoisadam]

It totally could be done in a packraft, past a guy in one long the way. Yeah there are headwinds days alright, but if the raft does bad then rest day :)

[@theadventurebeginstv]

Thanks for the perspective.

[@ichitabi5874]

nice happy life!! Please tell me the name of the last song you sang

[@collingroat7286]

Keep em coming Adam! Do you have another River in your sights?

[@whoisadam]

Probably complete the Danube at some point, maybe the Rhine, part of the Nile. We shall see.

[@TheresaKühne-k3f]

Wonderful trip! did you have any struggles following the border between Serbia and Croatia? i was wondering because it's EU border. Thanks a lot!

[@whoisadam]

Yeah, I did get pulled over at that border. There is a building on the right you need to go into and I guess show your passport.

[@legendary.expeditions]

Heya! You are awesome Adam! Thanks for the inspiration! May i ask, How did you manage border crossings? Any things you wished you knew before?

[@whoisadam]

Border crossings weren't really a thing you just paddled on through. Though when you got to Serbia the 1st major town you came to, I forget the name you had to check in and pay some money to use the waterway... It was kind of a hassle, cost about hmmm $60.

[@allenmoldovan]

You should have made to romania/the delta on the Black Sea. Awesome work

[@whoisadam]

Perhaps in 2019 I shall.

[@jgnorit]

Great stuff, i want to kayak the Danube in the future. Did you have to show passport at any of the borders? And how many times did you have to cross over land? Thanks a lot

[@whoisadam]

No passport expect for Serbia you have to show yours and pay a fee to use the river. You pay this fee at the 1st town you come to, its kind of a hassle, if you arrive on the weekend you have to wait until the weekday to get it. It was around 50 Euros. Crossing over land? You got to cross over land a lot in Austria many dam portages though if your in a kayak some of the dams have Kayak slides. This is a great site with info,www.tour-international-danubien.org/index_E.php

[@jgnorit]

@@whoisadam Perfect, thank you so much

[@ivanho7457]

THNX, WELL DONE BRO! brate :) (caps needed ☻)

[@Wrdlbrnpf]

Man, that river looks awesome, the cities along it and the countries, especially if you finish it; and I forgot how rivers always have restaurants! :D And the comfort of that kind of tent does seem worth the added weight and time compared to a biwack. Did you look up dangerous animals beforehand? Because I did on my trip, so when I got woken up by a wild boar in the middle of the night alone in a forest! I knew to just stand up and make it notice/smell me (and hope it wasn't after my food / I was'nt between a mother and her kids), Also, did you just drink filtered river water the whole trip? Even if it gets rid of bacteria, is that fine?

[@testmonsterification]

Yeah the 1P tent was a nice change from my NEMO bivy, I liked the extra room, and it wasn't too much heavier. I didn't do too much research on dangerous animals. Yeah the bore scared me alright and I did have a cooler of food chilling by my tent. I filtered water I would say half the time with the Sawyer mini filter worked great and I didn't get sick. The other half of the time I would fill water up at a restaurant while I ate dinner.

[@jacobsanchez6924]

Cool stuff man! Been following your work for a while way back from your Adam squared days. Any lessons learned or things that you might try differently next time around, or do you feel that you had enough preparation and the right gear for this trip?

[@whoisadam]

I would no change too much, perhaps bring less bungees, invest in some seriously good sunscreen. I got to get better at being efficient with avoiding transaction fees, I need to do a better job and find a travelers credit card you can use without a foreign transaction fee or without any charges when withdrawing money. Every time I would withdrawal money from ATM, I would get a $5 fee. So to avoid racking up fees I would withdrawal a large amount at a time, and I didn't plan well and have way to many Euros left over. Did pretty good with the other currencies. Just some small detail stuff but nice to get it all wired, I wasted say $35 in fees. I though was smart and got a Euro SIM card that covered me pretty much the whole trip, way better option than trying to make my Verizon service work over there. Going to look into a good solar power charger for next trip.

[@jacobsanchez6924]

Cool, and the video came out great. I was entertained the whole time. Thanks for sharing.

[@robbie27074]

An intimate video! How many times did you fall in then? also, what an impressive distance for 20 nights !

[@testmonsterification]

I actually didn't fall in at all this trip, there was defiantly some close calls at times. Yeah I did a lot of paddling, many hours per day to reach that distance.

[@BIGWUNuvDbunch]

MAH BOIIIIII

[@sialaladwiescie]

love this story, love these pictures, but I think you could have solved the narrative differently ;-) [do not ask what exactly I mean :D]

[@adamf.4823]

Are your camp spots all legal or do you just "stealth camp?"

[@whoisadam]

Yeah its all just edge of river, I think its fine, all free game, no private land to my knowledge or any signs.

[@Mauriciomel1]

Good....

[@whoisadam]

Thanks was a good trip indeed.

[@djbobointhemix]

If you choose to continue your journey, throughout Romania, i will join you on the water. 🇷🇴🇪🇺

[@whoisadam]

Yeah I hope to go back one day and pick up where I left off and get to the black sea.

[@rustygtwoguns]

hey, made it yet? Id love to go until the black sea with you

[@whoisadam]

I was supposed to finish it up but covid happened, had the plane tickets bought as well. We shall see.

[@samenameasoddo]

What mile market is the monks drinking and smoking?

[@whoisadam]

Hahaha I dont remember it wasnt too far down the Danube from Ingolstadt

[@Joewilko]

How did you get the kayaks to the river? Please help

[@whoisadam]

Not sure, what you mean. This was a SUP board and I just carried it to the river....

[@Joewilko]

@@whoisadam me and a few mates are on about kayak the Danube, we live in the uk and are struggling on how to get kayaks to the river, any help would be appreciated

[@Joewilko]

@@whoisadam is there a kayak store near the start of the river that you know of? Or anything please help

[@whoisadam]

@@Joewilko Im sure there is a kayak store, there are plenty of boating sites all along the river, so depending where you want to start if there is a big town near by Im sure you can find a store.

[@Joewilko]

@@whoisadam we’re starting at the very start in Donaueschingen, we can’t find any on google so we don’t really know what to do, did you start there?

[@benskai2475akurfishing]

hai salam dari Indonesia

[@signingof1]

Monks with beer and cigars. Maybe there is a god after all...

[@whoisadam]

Hahah yeah maybe, there beer was very tasty.

[@alexmur5751]

you are aweosome!!! welcome in Russia next time

[@whoisadam]

Thanks, was going to finish up the trip last year but covid hit. Glad you enjoyed.

[@thesoutherncrossing2328]

I can’t believe you showed your vomit. I mean, seriously?

[@whoisadam]

Yeah seriously. Wasn't a big deal for me to film, each their own.

[@zsolttakacs4508]

LOLOLOLOLO :) Danube? Croatia? Where? Hungary? LOL