Dave from www.tiredofit.ca has been cycling around Africa on and off for 5 years but has always returned to Lusaka. That might have something to do with a certain Ireen that he is about to marry 🙂 The capital of Zambia is otherwise not a city with many (or any) sights, but from Dave’s stories [ Read More ]
Distance: 140.3 km Ride time: 8:48:53 Average: 15.9 km/h Max speed: 37.4 km/h Total: 47122 km In the morning I was 140 km from Lusaka, the capital of Zambia and thought I would just about be able to make it there at sunset. I had been in contact with Africa cyclist Dave from www.tiredofit.ca who [ Read More ]
Distance: 96.5 km Ride time: 5:22:56 Average: 17.9 km/h Max speed: 33.8 km/h Total: 46982 km Someone asked me a question the other day: “How much of your trip is really enjoyable, and how much is just plain repetitive work?”. Good question, which made me think for a bit… In fact I don’t associate the [ Read More ]
Distance: 127.1 km Ride time: 6:53:08 Average: 18.5 km/h Max speed: 41.4 km/h Total: 46885 km Zambia is not really in southern Africa, but it borders Namibia. It is also not western Africa but it borders French speaking Congo. Neither it is eastern Africa, but it borders Malawi and Tanzania. Zambia is something all by [ Read More ]
Distance: 125.7 km Ride time: 7:09:46 Average: 17.6 km/h Max speed: 38.9 km/h Total: 46758 km I was pretty excited as I left Livingstone in the morning to head into the unknown of Zambia. In the words of my friend “Once you cross into Zambia things are going to turn into a little bit more [ Read More ]
Distance: 14.6 km Ride time: 00:52:25 Average: 19.0 km/h Max speed: 16.7 km/h Total: 46632 km Simon and I were up early. Walking through town we could hear the thunder and see the cloud from the Victoria Falls long before we actually arrived. It is really not often that I pay to enter tourist attractions, [ Read More ]
Distance: 84.8 km Ride time: 4:27:33 Average: 19.0 km/h Max speed: 45.4 km/h Total: 46617 km After the short but comfortable stay in Botswana I cycled out of Kasane with renewed energy. I was going to cross into Zimbabwe and cycle to Victoria Falls – sounds pretty exotic, doesn’t it? The Zimbabwe borders are notorious [ Read More ]
Distance: 72.9 km Ride time: 3:38:15 Average: 20.0 km/h Max speed: 25.6 km/h Total: 46532 km I sometimes think about the “days since leaving home” as years. There was day 1776 when I was on Long Island in New York, and 1945 when I was in Southern Namibia. I was born in 1983, so today [ Read More ]
Distance: 110.6 km Ride time: 5:56:42 Average: 18.6 km/h Max speed: 25.6 km/h Total: 46459 km It’s now a month and a half and 2000 km since I entered Namibia – and it’s all coming to an end up here in the extreme north-eastern corner of the country. Getting ready for today’s ride with a [ Read More ]
Distance: 101.7 km Ride time: 5:46:58 Average: 17.6 km/h Max speed: 27.7 km/h Total: 46348 km After the close call with the truck last week, I felt I was somehow seeing things in a new light. Not that I would say that I’m getting more nervous, but a different kind of perspective has emerged – [ Read More ]
