| Feb 20 2018: Robes, Roundels and Rondavels Our room is freezing! There's a propane heater in the corner, which when lit, spews not only warmth out into the room, but also a really bad, noxious smell. We're both a little afraid that the heater will poison us in our sleep.
— in Afriski, Lesotho
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| Feb 18 2018: Cliffs of In-Sani-ty The Sani Pass is a steep mess of loose rock and rubble, seemingly aimed up at the sky. Our wheels slip and slide, any one mistake threatening to send us over the edge - over 1000m into nothingness. I barely made it to the summit where I parked the bike and waited for Neda to catch up. But I couldn't see past the last switchback. I waited. And waited. And waited...
— in Sani Pass, Lesotho
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| Feb 16 2018: Final Days in South Africa Sharing the motorcycle love before we exit the country.
— in Underberg, South Africa
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| Feb 14 2018: Unpaved Rhodes And we're getting kicked out of yet another country. But at least the Stop signs here are cheery.
— in Rhodes, South Africa
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| Feb 10 2018: GPS Is Trying To Kill Us Hopelessly lost in the Transkei. Guard dog tried to eat our escaping crayfishes. Another typical day on The Wild Coast of South Africa.
— in Coffee Bay, South Africa
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| Feb 08 2018: Thieves! We watch, wide-eyed with horror, as the thieves pilfer through the soft bags on our bikes. I yell out and quickly run over to confront them. Startled, the looters flee. I anxiously check our belongings to see what was stolen.
— in Dwesa Nature Reserve
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| Feb 05 2018: The Republic of Transkei We've discovered that South Africa is very westernized and developed. Our travels through this country have been far from what we imagined Africa would be. Until now. Now we're headed into the Transkei, otherwise known as The Wild Coast.
— in Mazeppa Bay, South Africa
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| Feb 03 2018: Time Stand Still Paying a visit to family we haven't seen in a while suddenly makes me feel very old!
— in East London, South Africa
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| Jan 30 2018: Hittin' the G-Spot! Also in this episode: it's all about doggy style, having kids and other biological urges. And a dirty video.
— in De Vlugt, South Africa
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| Jan 28 2018: Sandboarding, By George! We used to do a lot of snowboarding back in Canada. Just how hard could this sandboarding thing be...?
— in Vleesbaai, South Africa
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| Jan 26 2018: Cango Caves A woman got stuck in one of the narrow pathways in the Cango Caves. The other members of the tour group were trapped in one of the interior caves until she could be freed by rubbing her down with oil. Then they all had a braai. Those last two things might or might not be related.
— in Oudtshoorn, South Africa
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| Jan 25 2018: The Road to Hel is Unpaved, With Good Indentations For nearly 200 years, there was no road in and out of the valley. Generations of subsistence farmers were born, lived and died with no outside contact with the rest of civilization. Outside, two world wars passed. Apartheid rose up and was torn down. The Gamkaskloof Valley was untouched by all of it. And now we venture in with our motorcycles.
— in Swartberg Pass, South Africa
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Jan 25 2018 to Feb 20 2018
South Africa
Lesotho
Japan
Canada
Croatia
Cambodia
Thailand
Ireland
Wales
France
Italy
Scotland
United Kingdom
Isle of Man
Northern Ireland
Austria
Luxembourg
Greece
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
Montenegro
Albania
Malaysia
Singapore
Laos
Germany
Switzerland
Slovenia
Norway
Finland
Russia
Estonia
Poland
Czech Republic
Belgium
Denmark
Sweden
The Netherlands
Morocco
Spain
Portugal
Peru
San Marino
Ecuador
Colombia
Honduras
Nicaragua
Panama
Guatemala
El Salvador
Cuba
Mexico
Belize
Jamaica
United States
Jan 25 2018 to Feb 20 2018
