Riding out of Santos felt great!! A bit like riding out of Singapore on the first day actually - a sort of deja vu… We were reluctantly leaving a very good new friend in Reynaldo (and his cozy house), but we were bursting to see what South America had to offer us. The first kilometers [...]

The bad karma can be traced back to Cuba - probably around the time they stole our wallet. From then on it’s been down hill all the way. On the first day in Brazil we found out that our ‘internet friend’ Manuel, did not arrange for the Africa Twin to be transferred to a nearby [...]

We’re still in Brazil. Things are moving VERY slowly. We’ve spent the last few days fighting beaurocracy, mismanagement, ignorance and general chaos (the full story in the our blog…). At the moment, most of Brazil and half of South America is under water. It is raining constantly! And even when it’s not raining, the +80% [...]

That’s what we thought anyway… but the customs clearance of the Africa Twin has turned into a nightmare! In fact, the bike is not even in the port it was supposed to be, but 1,000km way!! Thankfully still in Brazil
We tracked it down to the port of Santos, not far from Sao Paolo. That’s [...]