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Question - | "What does having a dream mean to you?" |
Answer - | "A dream is a goal glimmering in the distance; it is an inner calling which, when accomplished,
serves as the rite of passage into wisdom." Erden Eruç - Sep 17, 2004 |
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Preparing the boat...
September 16, 2011
The container with my rowboat finally arrived at Walvis Bay as of Saturday the 10th. Customs clearance took until Tuesday and finally the container was moved to a secure warehouse where we took out th
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Reached Lüderitz...
August 24, 2011
Norman and I reached Lüderitz on Sunday evening. We are in good spirits in this little enclave where the German influence is ever present, but we already miss our daily exercise routine! I person
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Luderitz in a few days...
August 17, 2011
It has been a fairly fast ride south since Grootfontein. After leaving the home of Danie and Odette Van Wyk, we followed the highway B1 all the way into Windhoek then into Keetmanshoop where we are r
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Reached Grootfontein...
August 7, 2011
I am going to post this quick update to inform our supporters that we have reached Grootfontein in Namibia.
The long Skeleton Coast which extends northwest from Walvis Bay has been a concer
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Namibia around the corner...
July 27, 2011
All along, I had assumed that I had obtained a 36-spoke wheel in Dar; obviously I had not counted the spokes! By the time we reached Lusaka, that 32-spoke wheel had a broken spoke and a wobbly gear c
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Another antipode!
July 14, 2011
After I joined Norman in Chimala with the 36-spoke spare wheel, we cleaned the ratchets inside the original 48-spoke wheel hub but that did not help. I later sought the help of our friend Peter Ackroy
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Hoping the wheel will work!
8 July 2011
With Norman we reached the village of Chimala on Tuesday just about 80km east of the town of Mbeya. My rear wheel hub was misbehaving, skipping as I tried to put loads on it. We checked into a cheap
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It could have been worse...
June 29, 2011
The recent accident in Kabuku with my bicycle has worried all of our friends. I was lucky, the outcome certainly could have been worse. I was able to gather the cycling rig and myself off the roadsid
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