We left Addis so excited to be on the bikes again but halfway to Bahir Dar Michnus realized that the legs of his pants was sprayed with oil …. Both the front fork seals were popping out …
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TRAVEL JOURNALS
All the field journals post in date cronological order. All the motorcycle adventure stories per country. Informative articles on products, suggestions, tips podcasts, media, and everything else.
Hopefully there’s some valued motorcycle adventure dual-sport information that will be of value.
And you want to tell me a bike is only a piece of metal? 18/03/2012
With as much gusto as a kid at Christmas opening presents, I rolled the bikes out of hibernation at Wim’s place. They were dirty, full of cobwebs, tyres flat and looked sad. It was a wonderful feeling to see and feel the bikes again
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Back in Addis! 10/03/2012
Ethiopia, of saints and scoundrels part 3 05/2011
This was the second time we were trying to get away from Addis but the VW stuttered to a halt 60 kilometres outside of the city. Addis was holding us back not letting us go from her spell and with some luck also the cold beers! Or maybe just the […]
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Ethiopia, of saints and scoundrels PART2 04/2011
Back to the future! The Ethiopian calendar, is called Ge’ez calendar. In short it means the entire world is in 2011 and they are in 2004. Ethiopian_calendar Addis the capital of Ethiopia is a quirky, eccentric, art deco and seriously vibrant city. People play, wine and dine at night in the […]
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Ethiopia, of saints and scoundrels part1 01/04/2011
We were in heated negotiations with black market petrol suppliers trying our utmost best to obtain a few liters of petrol to get us to Addis. The town of Arba Minch half way between Omorate where we crossed the border from Kenya and Addis was engulf in dry sweltering midday […]
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Turkana part3 30/03/2011
There’s no official border crossing, we made our own based on the GPS. We were seeing forward to Ethiopia and some Injera and beers, but for now we still had to get out of Turkana and to Omarate, the first town in Ethiopia. Little did we know we would get a […]
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Lake Turkana part 2
It’s funny how people’s opinions differ on road conditions. We have learned a long time ago not to take the opinions of all overlanders and locals too serious when they tell us about the road conditions we are likely to travel.
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Lake Turkana part 1 27/03/2011
Want to experience the undiscovered out of the tourist safari route, path less travelled Africa? This is the overland route to conquer. Adventure is worthwhile.
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Kenya Titbits (05–16/02/2011 & 14-30/03/2010)
Our first destination was Nairobi to do some well-deserved services on our two tired Dakars! Jungle Junction (JJ’s) is THE stop-over for overlanders, bikers and hikers alike, travelling through Nairobi. We arrived at a very busy JJ’s and spend most of our time fixing bikes and making some good friends.
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Simply, Uganda rocks! Part3
Lake Bunyonyi area(no not Benoni!) shows the intensive farming and tree felling in full force. We camped at an overland spot with a good view of this crater lake and its activities.
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Simply, Uganda rocks. Part 2
Our next destination was Fort Portal, a small town situated South West close to the Congo border. Now, Niel and Silvie are bird watchers and very serious about it – they really tried to draw us in but for us, all is better on two wheels and chicken is the […]
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Simply, Uganda rocks!! Part1 17/03/2011
Simply- Uganda Rocks!! 17/03/2011 The road to Uganda through Kenya took us to Suam river border post on the foot of MT Elgon between Kenya and Uganda. It’s a beautiful green area with lots of trees, forest-like. In Kenya the roads towards the border were either full of potholes or […]
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Serengeti and Ngorongoro special 03/02/2011
Ngorongoro and Serengeti Special. What was said in the past by so many people, is all true about this place in the heart of Tanzania. It is jaw dropping beautiful, and whatever you have seen in a game park in South Africa except for the animals, is new and this […]
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Spicy Zanzibar (19-24/01/2011)
Spicy Zanzibar (19-24/01/2011) Zanzibar turned out to be more of a tourist island than we expected – almost everything that is done and setup is with tourism in mind. Spice tours, town tours, park tours, Prison Island tours, …
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Pole Pole Tanzania 29/01/2011
“Pole Pole” in Swahili means slowly slowly! That is how the laid back people of Tanzania live life in this jaw dropping beautiful country. Everywhere you go you hear Jambo, Jambo….hello hello with broad grins and inviting faces. The moment we crossed the border into Tanzania it is as if […]
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Malawi and the spirits of Ewan and Charley 29/01/2011
Malawi and the spirits of Ewan and Charley The parts for the bike took longer than expected and I still had to get the bolt that broke off in the water pump casing fixed. That in itself is a problem sitting at Monkey Bay. It is not the kind of […]
Read MoreKacholola Motel – Zambia
A signpost ‘welcome to Kacholola Motel’ immediately feels like a very good idea! Harry has been towing Michnus for more than an hour and this after examining, on the roadside, every possible reason for that bright red radiator warning light! Its past 8 o’clock in the evening and we are […]
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