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TOUR D’AFRIQUE 2023 – Masai Steppe – Nairobi to Arusha
Leaving Nairobi was a whole new ride. Leaving the city itself, we passed a few suburbs whose houses made the New Jersey MacMansions I’d become accustom to over the past 20 years seem quaint. But soon we were in the outskirts and a scene that would become common place for the next 1,300 miles began…
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Tour D’Afrique 2023 – Out of Sudan Part II
Addis Ababa was a surprise. We had over an 8 hour lay over so the airline gave us a half day hotel room which afforded us a mini tour of the city. Not only was the airport new and modern, the city, from what we saw in our short stay was also modern and vibrant…
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TOUR D’ AFRIQUE 2023 – Out of Sudan, Part I
I will attempt to play a little catch-up on a rest day at Chitumba Camp on Lake Malawi. Today is Sunday, March 5. I have no idea when I will have internet to get this out, even hot spots aren’t working for me. After leaving Suleyman our ride into Khartoum, was another couple days. During…
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TOUR D’AFRIQUE 2023 – Fast Forward
Africa has risen up and bit – hard – and right in the spot a bicyclist is most vulnerable. We left Nairobi two weeks ago and after four days arrived in Arusha at the base of Kilimanjaro. After 3 days of rest we started a 900 km trek across the Masai Steppe. No more nice…
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Tour D’Afrique 2023 – Sulayman
The final ride in Sudan is about 310 miles from Dongola to Khartoum through such desert camps as Dead Camel Camp, Desert Hut and Abu Dolooa. Be that as it may, by far, the best experience was a visit with Sulayman a subsistence farmer in the Sudanese desert. Sulayman is around 80-years-old, he didn’t know…
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Tour D’Afrique 2023 – Sudan Part III
We were now approaching the two week point of our desert trek with three days and approximately 250 miles before we reached Dongola, the provincial capitol of northern Sudan and a former center of the Nubian civilization. I have to admit that by the 13th day I was not very excited to great the cold…
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Tour D’Afrique – Sudan Part II
The first thing I noticed about the roads in Sudan was that the authority of the guy who put all the speed bumps on Egyptian roads apparently did not extend over the border into Sudan. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Sudan roads seem to have a propensity to grow rumble strips,…
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Tour D’Afrique 2023 – Sudan Part I
A good friend of mine sent me a text before the beginning of this quest. “Crazy you’ll be with 30 people on this. It’s really not about them though, is it? It’s more about you and Craig Saunders isn’t it. You two are going to get to know each other really well on this one.…
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Tour D’Afrique 2023 – Aswan and Abu Simbel
Due to the safety concerns of biking through war torn southern Sudan and northern Ethiopia we now have several rest days in Nairobi waiting for our support vehicles to catch up. As you might be able to tell from the frequency of these posts, I am trying to use this time to catch up on…
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Tour D’Afrique 2023 – Leaving Luxor
Still on the West Bank after leaving The Valley of the Kings we visited the Hatshepsut Temple. The magnificently restored temple is rivaled only my the equally magnificent original geology. After passing from the west side of the Nile, the side of the setting sun and the dead, we we returned to the east side,…