Author Archive | Jo Morgan

The heat means you need to drink gallons of water. Most days you sip through 5 litres of the warm stuff on your back and more if you are riding in the heat. But where does it go to. Several of us got to the end of hot days with no pee. I did drink […]

There are a few days to look back on now from the comfort of Aswan in Egypt. Our last night in Ethiopia was in Gondor where an ancient castle of the kings of old graces the centre of the town. Lying outside the magnificent walls was a wrapped person with a chubby baby crawling over […]

Leaving Addis Ababa was akin to leaving home again, we had become like locals with our favourite eating places and bars. The price of beer varied from 2 birr to 25 birr for a handle. Yes that is from 36 NZ cents to about $4 NZ. It seemed to be priced according to how far […]

Girls like to go to the market. That is what Brendan told me,,,Yea right. I went shopping with him anyway to Merkato in Addis Ababa. It is a large sprawling series of buildings that mainly would not get a compliance certificate in NZ, and attached are lots of lean-to stick structures and the plastic sheeting […]

Yesterday we set out early from the Kenyan wilderness town of Isiolo to try to get half way to Ethiopia a rough road of 220 km. We did 70 km with Gareth (and Floyd, a brave pillion) and me out front as we are the slowest on the rough stuff. Waiting for the others in […]

We were to head to Eldoret, Kenya today but arrived there early and had a mob situation on the main street while waiting for Gareth to get some local money and Tony getting his gloves stolen as the huge crowd surrounded us, so we decided to move on a hundred and fifty km to Nakuru. […]

Getting into this place was a bit slow as the processing of the carnets seemed to stress the revenue collector who we had to pay 32,000 Shillings to ($20 us) this had to be in local money only and the Visa of $50 US had to be paid in US $ only, but we got […]

After blowing the main suspension seal. WE did a day of 450 km and the border into Rwanda ($50 US ) so some of the group could do a visit to their relatives (AKA gorillas). We ended the day in Kigali and had a beer in the famous hotel Rwanda. Also had a visit to […]

This wasn’t on my list of “must do” in Africa but I’ve done it now. The rough roads of North Tanzania took their toll on the main suspension unit and I was left riding a pogo stick. Now how it happened, we had left Mwanza (where we had done a lot of village time with […]

dear all, Gareth and Floyd went straight out to the exotic island Zanzibar, where they are doing a dive course, and I stayed in this bustling town to help with the bike service and enjoy the city. As I walked to the internet this morning I was following a Masai man in his traditional reddish […]