Welcome To The Jungle

October 29th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Bureacracy, Ride Diaries, Uh-oh

By the time I made it to the Angola/DRC border, it was getting dark, I was severely dehydrated and hadn’t been able to keep down hardly any food.
I had read somewhere online that the border was open until 6PM, so with my 5:45 arrival time and the fact that the border was remote and had […]

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Stranded!

August 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Alternative Transportation, Motorcycle Stuff, Uh-oh

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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