mhoey on July 14th, 2010

Soundtrack: Cat Stevens – Wild World
First time I met the Christian’s, the two American’s was during a heavy thunderstorm 60 clicks from Abuja city. Bass and Justice had prepared their flashy for Africa by taking off the BMW emblems and using Scoth-brite on all the plastic. What an interesting idea! American people keep surprising me
I have never experienced such a [...]

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mhoey on July 13th, 2010

Soundtrack: Trentemøller feat. Ane Trolle – Moan
While I am waiting things out down here, why not give you my version of Nigeria. Being patience has it price, I guess..
José Ramon Domenech Sanchez (now a Spanish World Cup winner) from Valencia seems to have found his way down to Cape Town. José  (yes Ian, he has arrived, will [...]

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mhoey on July 7th, 2010

Soundtrack: Peter Gabriel – Down To Earth
On the 27th of June 2010 I said farewell to my fellow travel mate, a Honda VFR 750, devil red. My first stage of the journey had finished and I was heading for another continent, South America.
Bike was crated by Outsource Packaging in Parow, South Africa, just outside Cape [...]

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mhoey on July 6th, 2010

Soundtrack: Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights
Benin was a bit more comfortable than Togo, at least I felt so after the president incident in Togo.
The roads didn’t become much better, to be honest they became worse due to temporarily road construction. I didn’t see much sign of tarmac the three days it took Ian and [...]

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mhoey on June 22nd, 2010

It all started as planned the evening yesterday in the Saltycrax bar, when Franky, Shane (suspected to wear a diaper), Matthew and Mick gathered around the table to join the 100 Club. If you take a look at the wall in the bar at Saltycrax you can see all the visitors who made it into the [...]

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