…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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…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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It was pointed out to me in mid-June by a certain someone as I contemplated never leaving South Africa that if I was to actually embark on a a complete circumnavigation of Africa (or at least a north-to-south trip) that I would obviously have to start at the southernmost tip of Africa and head to […]

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