To Mopti or not to Mopti…
After a two weeks rest in Bamako, we finally got Tom’s foot back into his boots, ready to move on. But where to? We had discussed the safety situation in Mali with quite a few people at the Sleeping Camel in Ba...
Stuck in Bamako
It’s been a day or twelve now since I broke my foot after a crash on the piste. We both knew that someday, this would happen. It’s part of motorcycle adventure riding. It isn’t the first time that things go wr...
Mali, ma belle
It seems like we’ve entered a complete different world. If you want to take a picture here in Mali, you get the brightest smile. In case you're in need of something, people are there to help. When we leave on o...
Green at last
People kept telling us how great the Casamance region, in the south of Senegal, really was. The place to be, the friendliest people, the greatest of environments. So we had to go there for sure.
Now here’s t...
New Years Eve in Senegal
After all the horror stories about the border between the Western Sahara and Mauritania (border crossing was a breeze), there were those even wilder stories about the Senegalese border. We had heard of people h...
Mauritania and the first crash…
We left Dakhla and the Western Sahara behind us and apart from our fuel bottle being stolen, all went well. The Mauritanian border promised to be a horror story, at least that’s what they warned us for. They wo...
The hunt for a shower
The sealed road took us about 500 kms further to the town of Icht in southern Morocco. The last few 100 kms were dark already and the neck muscles started to ache due to the cold of the night. But that was comp...
Sun, sand and sweat
It’s been a while since we got the opportunity to keep up with the website. We are in the south of Morocco right now and we finally have a reliable internet connection so it seems. Every campsite or hostel owne...
Chasing the sun
The weather gods weren’t particularly favorable on the day of our departure. Most of the route down to Portugal was bloody cold and that wasn’t really what we had in mind. On top of that we kept struggling with...
Tracks & pics: Iran 2013
Check out the pictures, tracks and waypoints of our 2013 Iran trip. Ever felt like exploring this country yourself? Here's a great source of useful information!...
Trip report: Namibia 2010
Cape Town
From Cape Town, through Namibia up to the Angolan border and back. Caro on her KTM 640 Adventure and me on my KTM 990 Adventure. That is the outline of the plan for next month. Our first challenge? G...
Trip report: Iran 2013
Leaving for Iran, a close shave
Upcoming elections seem to be a good reason for Iranion immigration services to become even more suspicious (read nerve wrecking slow), especially when dealing with foreign jour...