Author Archive | Jo Morgan

We are in Dar Es Salam and it was a good time to do the first “on the road service”. A few of us are booked into a local hotel that has a good lock up for our bikes and a dirt floor so no-one get their knickers in a knot when we drip oil […]

Yesterday we crossed into Malawi, a small poor country with about 10 million people. We are in the capital city, Lilongwe, staying in a Korean guest house that has Gareth’s favourite Korean food on the menu. I don’t know what the AIDS statistics for this place are but most of the countries so far have […]

Well we have had a little detour in Zambia down to Lake Kariba. This detour is lead by our dam enthusiast (Tony) who gave us lots of facts and figures to make this visit a very educational experience. This is the lake caused by the damming of the Zambezi and is huge nearly 300 km […]

We boarded a floating platform for what could have been 3 hours of nothing much and had our socks shocked off by the sights and smells. Huge herds of elephants swum the river a few meters from us, crocs snapped and the hippos wallowed and made noises a nice girl hasn’t heard before. The highlight […]

This morning we went for a drive through a part of this famous park. We started at 6am and had all our gear on as it was freezing, probably around 3 degrees and once you start travelling in the open vehicle your extremities stopped circulating. We were lucky enough to see a group of 4 […]

We have just come out of the Okavango Delta where we have had a couple of nights under canvas. Worthogs made there nightly nest under Floyd’s sleeping platform and the roar of the lions and huge snorts of nearby hippos made our nights a bit less relaxing than having 4 walls. Also during the night […]

We have had lots of wonderful views over the last week. Fish river canyon was at the end of a dusty hot ride through a desert and was huge like the “Grand Canyon” in USA but we really missed having a coffee shop and take-aways there. Back through the desert hot and dry with huge […]

Well at last on the machines and riding into a howling gale reminiscent of Wellington in a shocker northerly down to the Cape of Good Hope to look at the raging surf and rocks that claimed so many of the early explorers. We couldn’t believe the level of security at the parking area, police everywhere, […]

We are on the big continent of Africa hanging in Capetown while we find the bikes and await the rest of our team of 6. Totally captivated by the people– open and chatty and in stark contrast to what you expect when you see the electric fences and razor-wire that surrounds their homes. Gareth has […]