Journey to the Equator

[mikeb8man]

Hi,

I was an avid user of the HUBB whilst preparing for the trip that follows below. I had a website that is now no longer in use, but my story and photographs have been posted to a new site. So if you fancy a good read about motorcycle travel in Africa, grab a few s and take a look....

Journey to the Equator
This is a story about a father and son, expert and novice duo, who travelled 20,000km through eight southern African countries on their KLR 650's. Retirees at 22 and 55, they rode for 3 months, straying away from the tourists and tar roads.

Hope you enjoy,

Mike

[Miquel-Silvestre]

Hi, guys, lovely trip!. I did the half (from Nairobi to Cape Town) and soon I am going to do the other half. But what I gonna say is both of you are lucky guys. You lived the adventure shared between father and son, riding the same crap and enjoying the same light. You have learnt to know where is the other´s limits, and that is tough for fathers and sons.

I understand your challenge because my father inoculated the bike poison in me. He is 70 and still riding, rode all his life and now he is proud of me because I am riding beyond the horizons. Our motorbike world is hard to understand for normal people who do not ride. It is impossible to explain why we do what whe do. Only another biker can understand us. But if that biker is your father (or your son) riding toghether in the wild, then you have gotten the Jupiter heaven.

Congrats to both of you.

http://www.miquelsilvestre.blogspot.com