…If you decide that you’re REALLY hungry and order the Bushman Sosatie plate at Joe’s Beer House in Windhoek, and after eating crocodile, zebra, kudu, ostrich, and chicken, you wonder if you’re going to get food poisoning, you probably will…

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Off-road and dual-sport motorcycles are meant to ridden over rough terrain with full loads at medium speeds - when they fall down nothing snaps off; they ride better fully loaded; and they maintain handling capability on all types of traction.
One thing they are not good at is being run at high RPMs for a long […]

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Riding a motorcycle is never a question of IF you will crash, it is always a matter of WHEN you will crash.
And riding an overloaded dirt bike at 2000 meters in a high desert mountain pass doing 120k/hour on un-graded gravel roads with sudden elevation changes and blind turns is no exception.

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…If a bunch of trucks flash their high beams repeatedly during the day while you’re flying up the N7 at 160 KPH in northern South Africa, it’s not because they hit it on accident, it’s because you forgot to strap down your shinguards properly on the back of your overloaded bike and they are about […]

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…If you’re riding an heavily overloaded motorcycle at 120 KPH at night in in the dark in deep gravel while being chased by feral dogs somewhere in southern Namibia, and you’re pretty sure you hit a bird at high speed that exploded all over the right side of your radiator, boot, and pant leg, but […]

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While this is post #2, this episode actually happened prior to the ongoing bike dropping episodes described in post #1 . For those of you keeping score, my apologies.
I get asked all the time how I plan to ensure I don’t run out of gas (petrol) in Africa.
There are essentially three ways to […]

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This is the debut post of what is obviously going to be a very, very, very long series of posts.
One tough thing about riding on the left side of the road after you’ve spent your whole life riding on the right, besides the whole holy-crap-I’m-going-the-wrong-way-on-the-freeway-again thing, is turning.

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So if you’re either wondering where I’ve been or wondering why San Francisco has seemed so pleasant over the last month, here’s a quick recap of my activities.
After being awake for 5 days desperately trying to buy all the gear I’d need, sell my old motorcycle, sell my car, pack my bags, move into a […]

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