Road to Cape Town

Dear friends, I am sitting in the manager's office of a gas station in Tamale, Northern Ghana. There is a general power cut in the city, so none of the internet cafes are working. This gas station has a power generator to keep the fuel running. The manager has been so kind to let me use his PC in his air-conditioned office. It's 40°C outside - my plan to skip winter this year is working out just fine! Meanwhile, I feel like I...

Dear friends, I drove into Bamako during rush hour yesterday. While I was dogging motorcycles and yelling at cars - I've seen some interesting driving styles lately - I noticed that "total distance = 8000km" had appeared on the screen of my cycle computer. Time for a break! Cycling from Dakar to Bamako has been great. The countless baobabs were hypnotizing and every tree has its own unique shape. The scenery was breath taking, but it's...