TRIP 4 – Marsabit to Moyale

01 jan 2015 Marsabit to Moyale I leave Marsabit and head north. The road is tarred for the first 100 km and very good conditions, affermage is gravel road for 150 km with some bit tarred due to work in progress. The desert around the new road is a stones desert quite impressive, beside the …

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TRIP 4 – Moyale to Konso

02 Jan 2015 Moyale to Konso (328 km tot, 160 km off-road. The first thing we did is to get more cash at the ATM. The second thing is to look for fuel. Surprise surprise… The is no fuel in all the petrol stations of Moyale!!! I am dry and Norman too. We than look …

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Absorbing Shocks

In French we say that only idiots don’t change their minds, so Emma and I must be this generation’s Einsteins because not one of our plans has lasted more than 6 hours recently… In Addis, we were strongly advised not to go to Kenya via Turkana as it was deemed unsafe in the UN’s latest […]

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An overlander’s rite of passage: Marsabit to Moyale

Day: 213 KLMS: 31,368 After far too many days in another African city, our new shocks supplied by RAW 4X4 Australia arrived and we were finally able to head out of Nairobi. Leaving the city late, we only made it to Nyeri and headed for a farm, Sandai, which had been recommended by fellow...
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Day 164…Nairobi- Riding past the first Thorn Tree.

Jambo, My route over the last few days. I left Addis in the pouring rain, that was to be the setting for the 2 days of riding towards the Kenyian […]

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Turning for home

Sudan would end up being the northern most country we would visit on our African odyssey. With time and declining bank balances, restrictive Egyptian import laws, and the Syrian conflict staring back at us, we made the difficult decision to turn the PPE around and head back for Tanzania....
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