Contrary to my other Mt biking trips, and as a testament to the shape those trips allowed me to get into, I was NOT the last one up every climb on this trip! It was a great group though- a bunch of brits, two kiwis and me
"Into" Africa December 7th 2008 In late October I headed over to Morocco to do a 10 day Mt biking trip with Saddle Skedaddle through the Atlas mountains. I flew into Casablanca from Milan a couple of days earlier and figured I do a little exploring around. I had this naive kind of romantic or exotic Humphrey Bogart Lauran Bacall expectation for Casablanca but quickly discovered it to be pretty much just a big, and dare I say ... read more
Africa » Morocco In 788, about a century after the Arab conquest of North Africa, successive Moorish dynasties began to rule in Morocco. In the 16th century, the Sa'adi monarchy, particularly under Ahmad AL-MANSUR (1578-1603), repelled foreign invaders and inaugurate... ... read more
This blog is so my friends and family can track my journey from the west coast of Asia to the southern tip Africa. The idea behind this journey started in a bar in Shanghai last year. I knew I'd be finishing work soon and really didn't plan on going back to work on anything for sometime and I was talking things over with a friend of mine named Dwight when he suggested, "hey dude you know what you should do you should do is get a bike like mine and ride across China." Dwight has been living in Shanghai for years and has this really cool Chinese knockoff cicra 1940 BMW motorcycle with a sidec... full info