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It was a further three hours before we found our way to our overnight bivouac at the Barragem. En route we got on the cell phone to Darrell who'd arrived there earlier in the passenger seat of Andy's heated truck with his 640 in the back. I think he was pissed because his directions got us lost...

Oops problem... uhh

So to restart the bike and continue. Oops. Try to restart the bike! The key turns but the dash stays black and the happy button stays silent. Scheizen, that's never happened before...20 000km and up till now it's been reliable as an anvil. WTF? Mark says "it's the ignition key barrel, the 640's...

There was obviously an untold story relating to the demise of the previous owners. The Portuguese who fled Mozambique were, in most cases, luckier than those in Angola. I've seen photographs of the savagery inflicted on those Portuguese colonials and I've spoken to a few Mozambique survivors and...

Casa Carvalho

The next morning back on the road north with the Chimanimanis now on our west side. Midmorning we found a restaurant run by the Mozambique Parks Board not far off our road. We were the only patrons and I think that that had been true for days if not for weeks. The others tucked into a healthy...

The night before: There is a high-tension powerline that runs south all the way from the hydro-electric plant on the Cahora Bassa dam far to the north. We elected to camp on the overgrown access track beneath this powerline on the night before we got to the turn-off to Casa Carvalho. Not...

Boar's 640 loaned to Tosh. Tsetsera Massif in the background

Getting now to the Day: Joe at Bush Boys near Tonteldois...that's actually Tonteldoos in RSA; Joe, a Rhodie Bush War Vet, had given us many valuable waypoints and descriptions for this ride including the location of a long-abandoned dwelling named Casa Carvalho, high in the Tsetsera vicinity on...

Next day... -Chiqualaquala...the Zim border, make sure you stay cool, patient and your paperwork is right. -Boli village...where we turned right and traveled north keeping Gonarezhou Park on our right. Make a note to bucket list to visit there in a 4X4. No two-wheelers permitted in the Park...

Haunted Hacienda in the Tsetsera This is posted in Ride Reports, rightly so, but is really just a snapshot of a particular day, an eventful day, in a ride of many days, when was it, three years back, nearly four years back, that we did in Zim and Moz. I'll post the  we later. For context, I'll...

Day05. Last day and more rain. When I stick my head out the flysheet I see my Honda is lying on its side. The stupid clutch lever sticking through the stupid hand guard and into the earth. The firm ground that supported my side stand when I parked it had softened overnight until the bike...

Day04. Now it was proper hot, about 25°C at 07h00. 30°C after an hour and climbing. Retracing our track and not far from the camp we see lion spoor and elephant spoor overlying our bike spoor. Grace? Returning to Massingir we had Prego rolls, batatch and salat and put a new front tube in the...

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