Thirty years of war
Destroyed roads and death but damn
Angolans can party

Jogged by the water
Dazzled by such a skyline
Sickened by the smell

New cars everywhere
So much oil sold to the west
Lets go buy stuff

Most expensive city
In almost the whole world thus
twelve-dollar burgers
 

Shacks and penthouses
This is New Delhi by day
And New York by night

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Well not really.
I did manage to snap another cylinder head bolt (in my defense, it had gotten bent from the impact from the gas tank during one my many medium-speed wipeouts in sand in southern Angola that popped off the rubber gas tank mounts and was leaking oil), and this of course means with no […]

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…If you’re on a motorcycle somewhere in southern Angola between Lubango and Benguela and have cable-tied your GPS into its mount and it feels secure, and you decide to not watch it much as you’re feeling good and flying down a halfway decent dirt and rock track, you will probably look down at some point […]

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The tracks  for this ride diary abruptly end where my GPS met its maker under what were probably wheels 1-9 of several 18-wheelers, but the commentary (as usual) continues on and on and on…
The ride from Windhoek to the Namibian border is a long, boring, and dry, boring, plain, (did I mention boring?) trip.
I was […]

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After going partially insane waiting on motorcycle parts that never arrived in Windhoek thanks to the absolutely incompetent inbreds at Kawasaki Namibia and thus left me forced to hot-wire the cooling fan to the ignition, and going completely insane in Tsumeb waiting on some metalwork for the bike and to recover from a bizarre stomach […]

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The following list is culled from various friends, relatives, and complete strangers and is by no means comprehensive, but I have certainly heard them all at least a dozen times.
1.  Isn’t Africa dangerous?
Certainly parts of it, but so are parts of the US and Europe.  Africa is a HUGE continent, and not homogenous in any […]

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…If you go in for a tire fitting at the only Kawasaki dealer in all of Namibia, and you specifically ask them NOT to use your fresh tube but rather patch the slow leak in the old one and ask them NOT to steal your metal valve covers, they WILL use your fresh tube and […]

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Made with the incredibly high quality video available on my portable digital camera.
The big things made out of sand are the dunes.

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"Come And Get It"

Vultures feasting on fresh zebra kill in Etosha National Park, Namibia - nearby lion tracks showed evidence of a struggle within the last 12 hours

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"Look Closely"

Giraffe at Etosha National Park, Namibia

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