This is part of a occasional series highlighting the actual rides with GPS tracks and maps for those who are really serious about following along.
After a tough goodbye from Cape Town on the first beautiful day in weeks, I overloaded my bike with too much crap and headed north - into Southern Namibia; heading west […]

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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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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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Finally made it in to Namibia after waiting out the torrential rains in South Africa and being torn away only by my refugee status after overstaying my visa.
Which is payable by a fine that is double what I had though it was.
Oops.
Anyways I am now writing this from Keetmanshoop, Namibia:

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Protea & Table Mountain

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Cape Agulhas Lighthouse

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Me & the bike - Cape Agulhas.

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There are several basic rules for doing motorcycle repair on the road in Africa.
#1. Getting parts and tools on the road is a pain in the ass.
#2. Getting parts and tools on the road is a pain in the ass.
#3. See rules #1 and #2.
Having a decent place to work on the bike is often […]

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After a week of bike repair, travel, allergy flare-ups, website issues and general laziness, I’m back in action - posting will resume normally.
Promise!

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No, it’s not apartheid or even the current riots.  It’s the government.
If you want to understand South Africa, and in much of what plagues all of Africa - read this editorial on the criminal incompetence of Thabo Mbeki, South Africa’s current president.
You’ll begin to understand why Robert Guest, the Africa editor for the Economist and […]

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