Back to RSA

20th August 2013 Today I left Ai Ais to Upington in Northern Cape. First 60 Km in gravel road where I now go easily at 80 Km/h with short excursion to the 100 Km/h. The rest is boring tarred road, mostly straight, that I ride at about 115Km/h. I cross the border at Ariamsvlei and …

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San Javier, B.C.S.

About 25 miles from Loreto, there is a lovely small village tucked into the Los Gigantes Mountains. The road has been washed away in many places because of heavy rains and steep, easily eroded walls of the canyons along the way…. Read More ›

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Into Guinea-Bissau

Wednesday 26 Feb Sukuta Campsite, Banjul, The Gambia I breakfast with one of the yoghurts that I bought yesterday. Nothing special, except that I paid (noticed long after I had left the shop) almost 6 euros per yoghurt! French import bio. I have a nice walk with Thimba to Serekunda, a village some 3 km, […]

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Cholula- Hot sauce, pyramids and murals

Let me start this out by saying we never found any hot sauce stores in Cholula (one of our favorite brands of Mexican hot sauce in the states). How are they not capitalizing on this? I need to teach some sales courses at the university…. We stopped in Cholula to break up our very long […]
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The Lure of the Lake & Nairobi Nightmares – Naivasha & Nairobi, Kenya

LAKE NAIVASHA, KENYA 10th – 15th August 2013 Following my crash I spent a week on Lake Naivasha at Mikey’s place. He’s got a nice big farm-style place just on the lake and it’s the perfect place to just sit and crunch through admin – mostly phone calls and emails with my insurers, all of us […]

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All the way through the south

Once more, we had to cover huge distances in Australia on our way from the West to the East – a few thousand kilometres, all the way through the south of Australia. Luckily, our route took us through quite different landscapes, and for a change, we had some variation: huge forests with giant trees, beautiful …read more

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LEON’S BEACH

The clients are so chilled at the Casa Grillo Tres Puntas Eco-hostel that I’m sure the vultures think they’re dead. Why else do they hang around here? Often spotted loitering on the gnarled tree roots lining the beach, I can only assume they are watching for a pulse. Which set me thinking: perhaps the Peruvian […]

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