Recent content by Jammin

Hey guys! I'm in Joburg. Arrived last night from Upington. I'm staying with a biker, Riaan, in Rooderport and he's having a braai Monday night and you guys are invited. He's taking off in a month on a 1200GS for a trip around Africa, up the west coast then down the east. My local number is 083...

Thanks for the contact  :thumleft: Excellent! Thanks, Mike. I'll be there towards the end of Feb. Great, thanks! I think I'll swing by BikeGear and pick up some things.

Thanks to the WildDogs that have reached out and offered to put me up for the night  :hello2: If anyone else would be willing to host me along my route, let me know  :ricky: I'll be going from Upington (Pepe) thru Bloemfontein to Bethlehem (Hermit), then Joburg, then up to Polokwane where I'm...

Nope, only 30 days for Indian passport holders. Buggers  >:( and then only 30 days again for SA. Feel like I'm going to be rushing through such a huge country  :-\ Ok, sounds like a nice route and hitting all the passes on the way to Sesriem  :thumleft: On another note, I'd like to rebuild my...

Hey Chris, Regarding the Solitaire Loop, I'm running of days on my Namibia visa and if I had to take just one pass on that loop, which one do you recommend, Spreetshoogte or Remhoogte?

Haha, oh yeah, not going to miss Durban and get the stomach ready for curries  :thumleft: But CT is the second biggest port in SA, right? I'd like to finish in Cape Town and ship out of there and have only 30 days in SA, so hoping to make a nice loop around the country... After Knysna, I'd like...

Yup, I lived in the northern burbs, from where it was easier to escape into southern Wisconsin for awesome riding  :ricky:  Ooh, must've snowed quite heavily while you were there. I miss snow.  :rendeer: Great, a beer sounds good when I get to Cape Town  :thumright: which should be around the...

Hey guys, I made it to Windhoek after some awesome riding through the northwest. In the end I didn't go deep into Kaokoveld. I got to Ruacana and it rained very heavily, which I found out later was widespread across the whole region. The next day, I dropped the bike in a river crossing, pannier...

Much thanks, Chris. Routes noted. Currently in Rundu, camping on the banks of the Okavango...

As long as it's not clayey mud, then should be no problem if the track gets wet  :ricky: Just had some experience of all day riding in the wet along the sandy roads of Mozambique's coast :thumright: __________________ For when I get to South Africa, can you guys recommend some good dirt tracks...

Hi Errol, I'm getting my DR ready for the Koakoveld and looking forward to riding it soon. I'll stop by when I exit Lesotho :thumright:

Ok, thanks for the good info :thumleft: I have a bit of time on my side (planning on 3-4 weeks for all of Namibia), so if it rains heavy, I can wait a day or two for the river levels to come down. I usually carry 5L of drinking water and bump that to 8L for remote areas and have capacity to...

Ahh, excellent, thanks mate. I've marked the loop on T4A :thumbsup: Thanks for the link to your RR, Vis Arend. It's loading now.. Brave, adventurous, stupid... all dancing around the same thin line :laughing7: Thanks for the link, Chris. Keep 'em coming. Yup, aware that it's rainy season and...

Hermit, thanks for this awesome RR  :occasion14:  I'm on a RTW trip and currently in Lusaka and your trip has gotten me excited for Kaokoveld  :ricky: For others planning to do this trip, here's a garmin file of waypoints and routes that I gleamed from Hermit's NW Namibia trip (with a few extra...

Yup, what a great RR! Getting me all juicy for Kaokoveld  :ricky: Whereabouts is Solitaire? And can you recommend some nice RR for southern Namibia, like around Fish River Canyon? For future planners, here's a garmin file of waypoints and routes from Hermit's NW Namibia trip that I gleamed...