The sky was a beautiful azure color. The wind was uncharateristically calm at Cape of Good Hope, but the waves were still smiling at us with white caps in the deep blue ocean below. We had reached the end of the road, quite literally: At the parking lot under the Cape Point lighthouse, the road […]
Africa had become normal. Having spent about 3 months on the continent, we no longer bashed an eyelash at trucks in the wrong lane, pick-ups with 25 passengers, burning plastic everywhere, women with firewood balaced on theirs heads, or men with a machete in one hand and a beer in the other. The grotesque had […]
The frenzy had begun. The truck in front of me was breaking. To my right, a shaking semi was trying to overtake me and the rest of the line. In front of him was a metallic blue Honda Civic with the bass thumping through the open windows. Toyota Hilux pick-ups were sprinkled throughout the hundreds […]
[Note: I am aware that I am four translations of posts behind. They will come in due time (two of them are already translated, but not yet posted), but we thought this post was so important that we would post it immediately anyway.] We were riding in the hills above Lake Malawi. The sun was […]
“No! I’m done with this crap! This road is so uneven, and I hate riding on top of a berm so I can’t reach the ground!” It was one of those rare occations where Camilla was truly angry. “Oh, you’re doing fine. Just put it in first gear and keep a steady pace.” Our intercom […]
Was I making a fool of myself? Was I bothering them? Was I just the annoying white person? I had told Andreas, that I would do it. I normally like dancing. But as her dusty hand grabbed mine, I maybe regretted a little bit. No way back. I was now hand in hand with a […]
[Due to a mix of laziness and poor internet, I’m posting this way too late. We have actually been in Kenya for more than a week now, and are preparing our next post. But better late than never.] “Now it broke! It’s not going anymore! Something just broke!” It had been a long day already. […]
The strong halogen light on the dusty white walls was in sharp contrast to the deep black darkness outside. The medical jargon flew through the air. I tried in vain to follow along, as the doctor tried to discuss types of antibiotics with Camilla on his broken English. She sat on a plastic chair at […]
[This post was written yesterday, when we were still in Aswan, but was never put online, due to a lack of internet. Meanwhile, we have made it to Abu Simbel, close to the Sudanese border.] “I agree very much, that is a good philosophy of life,” says Andreas, after he also read and article from […]
It was difficult to hold back a grin, as I was staring out the window of Ahmed’s sparkling white Mitsubishi Lancer with a rally-spoiler and Sia’s latest hit “Chandeliers” at full volume on the stereo. Just two days earlier, I had laughed at the surrealism of driving through the dirty streets of Alexandria in Mahmouds […]
We are walking down the dark, labyrinthine alleyway, as the muezzin sings his call to prayer. The stalls in the walls on both sides are mostly closed, Egypt has a national holiday. Most street lamps are off, but there is just enough light to see where we are going and to avoid stepping on the […]
We looked at each other. “So… Do we just go inside and say that we have to motorcycles we need to get to Africa?” It was the first time any of us had tried to arrange transcontinental shipping, so we were quite out of our comfort zone. I opened the door to Minoan Lines and […]