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We are taking a Trans-African Honeymoon two-up on our 150cc Big Boy Pizza Delivery motorbike. We have made it all the way to northern Kenya from South Africa, added extra kilometers by traveling full circle around Lake Victoria just for kicks and for the next 6 weeks we’ll struggle through Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. It’s no BMW GS joyride but we get there Pole-Pole (slowly slowly in Swahili) and make sure to have ridiculous amounts of fun along the way.
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We are Craig and Sharon Iedema and in April 2012 we commenced a 2 year journey that will see us take in Europe, Russia, the 'Stans, Mongolia, Southern Asia and Africa.
August 9, 1997 - Harare, ZimbabweWe're staying in the Holiday Inn in Harare, and have just stuffed ourselves on T-bone steak, ribs, apple pie and...
March 10, 1997 - Hammamet, Tunisia (near Tunis)We have finally made it to Africa! Or, at least the tourist part of North Africa. More on that to...
October 14, 1997 - Cape TownWe're in Cape Town tonight, finally! From Luderitz we drove to within 120 km of the border with South Africa, ending...
July 28, 1997We crossed the border from Tanzania into Malawi. Exiting Tanzania was pretty easy, just present carnet to the man in the rough timber 3-...
May 4, 1997 - Tripoli, LibyaWe crossed the Tunisia-Libya border at mid-day yesterday, our tour guide Sharif (speaks English, French, German, Italian...
June 29, 1997 - Nairobi, KenyaNairobi has been very pleasant after Cairo (everything is relative), although we haven't seen any of the really...
May 13, 1997 - The Egyptian customs saga (beware, this is a very long story!)We arrived at the Libyan side of the border at 2:00, and were through in...
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