This post has taken me longer to write than i expected. This was something i never ever thought would happen and even have not heard it happen here in Kenya. If you know any other motorcycle company or dealer that gives out their brand new bikes from the showroom for not just a few hours…
I owe my trip to Tanzania to Anja Blue and Carsten Weisner .When Anja and Carsten started planning their riding tour from Kenya to South Africa, we agreed on riding together in Kenya from Naivasha to Lake Baringo. My plans changed and i was not able to meet them for this ride. They left Kenya while i was in Nyeri and i was so indebted. I proposed to meet them in Kigoma- Tanzania and did not give this proposal much thought. I just wanted to be with our friends and say a nobble good bye.
Carsten, Anja our new friend in Kigoma and myself.
PREPARING FOR THE RIDE.
The first preparation i had to do was psychological. I needed to be sure am psychologically fit to do the trip. I had never ridden that long (distance and days) on my own. There were going to be many “new” experiences for…
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When the up-grade bug bites, it bites hard and one can not ignore it. "Up-grade" means raise (something) to a higher standard, in particular improve (equipment or machinery) by adding or replacing components. In the biking terms, the meaning is more the same. It means getting a bigger bike in terms of engine capacity and performance…
I owe my trip to Tanzania to Anja Blue and Carsten Weisner .When Anja and Carsten started planning their riding tour from Kenya to South Africa, we agreed on riding together in Kenya from Naivasha to Lake Baringo. My plans changed and i was not able to meet them for this ride. They left Kenya while…
I met Rashmi on Facebook. We were in a common group and both bikers. She is the founder of Global Women Who Ride . She asked to interview me and i later asked her to visit Kenya. We ended up fulfilling each others request. She arrived in Kenya on June 1st. That's Madaraka day (Madaraka…
I haven’t traveled much. I can count the places I have been to and not exhaust my fingers. I love travelling though but this confession does not support my love for travel. I have been around for four decades, I should have done much better than that. Travelling is not cheap. Its costs time, emotions,…
We are born at a place called home, we grow up there, get natured, trained, educated, loved and belong. This place is all we know, the most traveled, the most explored, the most loved, the place with the most friends, the only friends we have may be. If we travel away, we go for hours…
This is the tittle Victoria Rubadiri used to describe the four of us when she featured us in her show. Several months later am back to watching this episode and could not agree more with the tittle. In one of my interviews, i was asked which woman inspires me. I could not single out just…
If you read my recent post All the way from Florida to show me Kenya you must be waiting to hear all about Africa the Continent. Well, am going to disappoint you. There will be no mention of Zinjanthropus, fossils or the tropical weather and the rain forests. This is all about a bike called…
I have recently found myself more on travel and adventure groups than my usual cooking, parenting, car boot sales, eat out groups. In the last couple of months i have joined a number of these groups that have a world wide community and different interests in travel such as motorcycle adventures, work as you travel,…
