TweetThe amount of distance that needed to be covered in the South was intimidating! We had to haul some ass and get this trip on the move! Getting out of Goa we headed out into Karnataka. All this time Nick’s thumb was hurting, especially over the combination speed bumps…7 speed breakers in a row? What’s [...]
TweetThis blog contains adult language, please read at your own risk. Sorry to those that may be offended. This is not our everyday language but this blog is best understood using a certain kind of language. Before we begin this chapter of our journey we would like to give a crash course on the definition [...]
TweetIt was a big relief to finish the “Road to hell” in one piece. It was mentally and physically challenging, stressful, and just pure survival. Nick was super relieved especially travelling with a wife for obvious reasons of abduction, looting and even murder. 2 days later a British guy was shot dead travelling in a [...]
TweetAgain, easy border crossing into Kenya. Instead of going the Kisumu way, we decided on going to Eldoret. It was chilly and started to rain decently hard as we rolled in. Eldoret is kind of a messy city. The roads were a bit tight and bad and with water and silt it was not pretty. We [...]
TweetThe border crossing into Uganda was simple with the usual road tax charged in these African countries. We decided to ride to Jinja which is where Nile or White Nile supposedly starts…I won’t get into that because it seems people take the location of the Nile source pretty seriously. We ended up camping out at [...]
TweetGetting into Kenya was nothing too complicated except for being hounded by Masaai ladies. They kept on pushing their beaded jewelry on me saying it was a free gift from them to me. Saw this trick in Laos We rolled into Nairobi and met up with my Uncle Pili. My Nanaji’s parents (my great-grandparents) and [...]
Tweet Crossing the border into Tanzania was an ordinary affair…usual money changers, customs clearance agents, and insurance agents heckling for your attention and your business…except for one thing. A customs official who actually knew more about the carnet de passage than we do. The Tanzanian customs officer had the knowledge and presence of mind to [...]
TweetMozambique was a short affair. In terms of scenery there wasn’t much in north Mozambique. It was dry and pretty poor. We passed village after village of mud houses and bags full of coal to sell lined up on the road. As with most of the other countries, you had the occasional crowd surrounding the [...]
TweetWe decided to see the Victoria Falls from the Zimbabwe side since we were more interested in getting a frontal view. From Zambia, you are getting a view right on top. We got a bit late crossing into Zimbabwe, but along the way we saw tons of wild elephants taking shade under trees near the [...]
TweetLooking back at the Namibia post, I realized that I kept repeating the fact that it was damn hot in Namibia. That’s because it was freakin hot in Namibia. And so was Botswana. We took the Trans-Kalahari border crossing into Botswana and again found dryness. Just flat dryness. Then the dead cows started. Either due [...]