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I was up at dawn. Dreamt that Wry was ahead of me crossing a river and just fell over on his side, totally underwater in all his kit with the bike on top of him. That was enough of that shit! Breakfast wasn’t until 7 so I took a stroll out to the riverbed to take in the morning. I strolled back...

Breakfast down, bags packed, we were fuelled and on dirt by 9AM, ripping away from Lake Baringo west, towards the Kerio River Valley. The track was more than I could have hoped for, first swinging west away from the lake then north in and out of a series of valleys, crossing the Sibilo River...

Bikes prepped, Wry, Panic and I agreed to meet at the petrol station at 8AM and astonishingly, we were all there on time. For long trips like this, we’ve learned to just hit the tar for half a day and get upcountry, so that’s just what we did. So we dodged homicidal maniacs in 4 to 18 wheel...

2020 has been pretty ugly so far. It seems like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are polishing their saddles and sharpening their spurs. So, when it looks like the darkness might just sweep you away, the very best thing to do is get as far away from it as you can. Living in Kenya, that means...

After our last escape, in which I returned home with a decent gash in my arm, all of my riding has been confined to grocery runs. We fixed that yesterday with a quick day out. It was pretty much a milk-run, starting off behind the Ngongs, taking the tricky way to Magadi Rd, crossing to head into...

Well, you can decide yourself about Kenya, but the XRR is a no brainer! And in RSA they're so cheap, relative to what it took for us to get them here... I'd get two!

OK Folks, looks like I sorted out the Google Photo issue. See this fix from a guy at ADV rider: LINK So, there should be a new addition above with 2 days of riding in Eburru Forest followed by some stuff from Xpat trying (and failing) to help me sort the photo issue. Hope to be riding again...

Daybreak found three half corpses and one unphased Mr. Phancy Pants who seemed to be the lone survivor of the night before. Blue skies flitted between cloud and mist. The whole scene was surreal, and we would all have enjoyed it very much if our eyes focused properly and we didn’t have to...

Eburru Breakout! The Corona Lockdown of 2020 ended (for now) which meant the boys and I wasted no time getting on the bikes for a ride. Wry had been to Eburru Forest with the family and no doubt realized how much more fun it would be to go there with bikers, so we packed up our Pigs and hit the...

You boys get swallowed by quick sand?

Very jealous. Even of the stuck bikes part. Friend of mine on a 690 got stuck overnight in that area (somewhere). Serious mission to get the bike out! This is me here in Kenya on a solo ride... I won't stop riding in riverbeds, but I'm a lot more cautious if they're wet! Love Namibia. Give...

Twas another hot and muggy evening in Dar es Salaam, like all evenings in Dar es Salaam. Ajax had just finished watching Top Gear re-runs and found himself picking at the label on his sweaty beer, staring at the ceiling, wondering what could energize the Dar Bikers. Over the years, the...

Fucksake, sounds like a blast! It's hard to imagine how much has changed in the intervening years, and very little of it for the better. We're all stuck at home... write up that RR already! :snorting:

Third day, Ajax resumes his place on point and the boys ascend into the misty mountains. Weather has been perfect so far, but the morning is cool and wet, and some of the tracks are decidedly slick. Barely half an hour into the ride, Ajax makes an unannounced pitstop in the bush to relieve...

Out of bed in good time, they again poked eggs, sausage and tea down their necks and set off once again to tame the Uluguru mountains. As dangerous and speedy as a pack of leopard tortoises, they raced up a long, quick road to get stuck in and then deviated on what turned out to be a fantastic...

Thursday afternoon, Scania made his way to Ajax’s place. The gigantic Swede was sweating buckets in the miserable Dar heat, his hairless pate beaded with sweat, and was looking forward to getting out of town. He knew the company was going to suck, but he hoped the riding would make up for it...

Along with most of the world, I’m sitting on my ass at home in Nairobi waiting for Covid 19 to piss off already so we can ride. My one really long ride in a year happens over Easter when my wife and kids escape to Spain and I can flee to the far corners of Kenya or N. Tanzania. The last three...

CUZZY - More like a refugee, but yeah. Over 20 years in Africa now. Spent about the same time on this continent as the one I was born on. Not inclined to return to the US, but since Africa's supposed to be doubling its population here pretty soon, I don't exactly relish the idea of staying here...

Coronavirus blues got me out of the house this morning. I was only planning to zip over to Karen, maybe take a little loop somewhere. Before I knew it, I was on my way on the backside of the Ngong Hills, twisting my way over to Cona Baridi. I clambered up the shoulder of the Ngongs enough to...

2020 has been a real bitch so far, but in Kenya we are still free to move around within reason and off-road motorbiking counts as social distancing, so Panic and I lit up the XRRs and took off to the valley. It was a blast, but somewhere out there I took a photo and forgot to zip my pocket back...