OK we had enough bickering, start a new thread if you feel the need to continue.

Back to the point of "how to make traveling around the world on the installment plan work" This is what I have been doing for the last few years with bike now stored in South Africa. It is that big pond between the two that is the problem.

Unless you can locate a place that will recive your shippment in South Africa but not do the paperwork till you show up you need to plan on shipping back to US. Even if this would work I expect the storage costs to be more than your shipping cost would be. Will also give you a chance to work on the bike some (always needing something changed).

If you do ship back to the US there is now a problem in shipping "less than container load" as a vehicle will delay the container a week to get cleared so no agents wants your business. But you can ship from Canada, When shipped to South America I hauled up to Canada where it was put in a container then trucked to Florida to be put on a ship.

We just did nine weeks in Southern Africa, best advice is to check out the Wild Dog forum, most hospitable people I have found anywhere in the world. Post this question on Wild Dog and they might have a solution for you.

If you want to check out our trip so far it is at "horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/thode"

Send me a PM if I can be of any help here or contacts in South Africa

OK one more of topic - Dakar Motos is good people!

Bob