Our 2008 trip to Antarctica with bikes on-board. ‘Poles Apart I – Antarctic Antics’ … in photos! Browse through the galleries below.
Author Archive | Gareth Morgan
Libya – Trash Capital of the World
You have to see it to believe it. Here we are at the home of Rome’s African citadels of Cyrena, Apollonia and Leptis Magna and all you can see is trash. The latest conquerors of Libya – following on from the Greeks, the Romans, the Turks, the Byzantines, the Spanish and the Italians – are […]
Joanne – In Shock Yet Again
She’s done it again – blown here 3rd shock absorber on this trip. What it is about Joanne’s riding or with her F650 none of us can fathom, but she is hard on the hardware. So bike guru Paul is back in action replacing the shock from our inventory of spares, shipped out to Addis […]
Dog Day Afternoon
Africa yields the oddest stories about people’s experiences when traversing not all of them full of the splendour and wonderment of the Dark Continent. Here’s a couple of tales that made us less than envious of their subject’s experiences. Our fix-it man in Wadi Haifa was keen to relate to us the story behind his […]
Barbara Gouldsbury – Kiwi Wonder Woman
In one of the outer and poorer suburbs of Khartoum, Sudan lives a Kiwi hero – Barbara Gouldsbury who for the last 15 years has been looking after some of the city’s street-kids. She runs an impressive operation that includes a prep school for the youngest of “her boys”, houses older lads who go off […]
Dash to Khartoum
Leaving Ethiopia was something we’ve looked forward to for some time – not so much because we have anything against the country, but rather because we’d been held up in Addis Ababa for 10 days as we waited for extensive public holidays to come to an end so we could get our Sudanese visas. That’s […]
When It All Turns to Custard
We’ve been grounded in Addis Ababa now for 10 days – our journey having come to a grinding halt as two blockages have stymied progress One is delays in getting Sudanese visas which today we hope to clear. The culprit there has been hitting Ethiopia on the eve of their New Millennium when all government […]
Bog Blog – The Stinkiest Toilet in Africa
The software loaded into our GPS units – “Maps 4 Africa” – warned us, the Ghion hotel on the Ethiopian side of border town Moyale has the most stinking toilet in the whole of Africa. Having been subjected to quite a range of bogs in India, China and Central Asia that we thought could claim […]
Through the Cauldron
The last 3 days has been tough – a 600km journey across the Kaisut desert in Northern Kenya to the border with Ethiopia at Moyale. It’s not just the road conditions – sand, scoria rocks, ruts as deep as canyons and corrugations that shake your fillings loose – but the heat of a desert making […]
Prey For Me
Having trucked our bikes across the Serengeti to the western gates we were relieved to both find the bikes still intact after 4 days of bone jarring transit, and exhilarated to be out of safari wagons and on to familiar steeds again. But for sure the next 5o miles was a bit of a shock. […]
