D-day and the perfect way to start the trip
by We left home at 18h05 this afternoon after scrambling for the last few things to pack. Suddenly it looked as if we packed too much …
Author: Francois Steyn
What to pack?
Last night we both went through version 1.0 of our packing list. There is so much to think of on a trip of more than …
We enter the final week before departure
We’ve been busy the past week, finishing off our jobs and business commitments and thus the five day silence on the blog. From here on …
Carnet de Passages en Douane – what a mouthful!
Today we received our Carnet’s whoop whoop! This piece of unimpressive looking, yet sophisticated sounding “Carnet de Passages en Douane” document is a requirement to …
All wired up and halfway ready to go
Yesterday we borrowed Ferdie’s bakkie (dankie dude!) to pick up the Motomia’s we’ll be riding to Cairo for three months. Peter and the guys at …
The route and a diet for our guide
We finally completed our travel itinerary for the whole trip this afternoon, as we need to include this when we apply for our visas tomorrow. …
Testing our equipment
We just returned from the AA where we handed in the bank indemnity for our Carnets. They’ll courier it to AA Kyalami tomorrow for the …
That naughty bean they call coffee…
This is what I look forward to most: Coffee in Ethiopia!
Visas (well almost), Carnets de Passage en Douane, International Driver’s licence – what a day!
We had a lot planned for today and left home at around 9h00. First stop, Visalogix in the big city. We were told that Lungi …
GoPro test ride and first pic of our bikes
We went for a quick ride this morning to test our GPS and try out the GoPro we borrowed from Villiers. I struggled for the …
