It's Nemo tents for us

After searching for weeks on the net for the tent that would best suit our needs for the Africa Trip, we cam across the NEMO ESPRI two person tent which is light, well built , has pockets, and taped seams to keep you dry. 

 I would buy the tent just for the excellent customers service, when I ordered three tents for all three of us I got an email from them just to confirm that I didn't make a mistake. Now how often has that happen to you ? to me never , and I order almost every thing for the guys.

I recently took a trip to Musandam in Oman and tested the tent in the mountains it did what it was supposed to do, and slept with a clear view of the mountain in front of me. It is a very versatile three season tent and has room for me and my stuff inside, you can use just the tent to have a meshed roof when the weather is worm and dry , or cover up with the water proof cover.

We have GPS maps for Africa

On our Round the World Trip we had to rely on paper maps as well as a GPS since Garmin doesn't have maps for all the countries we were traveling in, and we didn't have the time to find third party maps that would work. Well I just purchased and installed all the maps I will need for our trip to Cape Town form one source "Travel By GPS" it has all the main roads as well as some facilities.

Do you need A GPS? Well not really if you have paper maps and have time to navigate the crowded streets of a city. I rather have one than not, and I will be taking one paper map of the whole of Africa for reference.

Part 2 Africa Adventure 2011

So after careful calculation on how much vacation time I have in 2011, and how long it would take to get to Cape Town from Kuwait, We decided to implement part 2 of our adventures which is Kuwait to Cape Town with a tentative date of 17th of March. Believe it or not but the initial route took only 3 days to finish, route refinements are still going on. We did however finalize the countries we will visit and I will be posting each country and what we expect to see.

Malcolm S. Forbes said - “Living and dreaming are two different things — but you can't do one without the other.”

Dar Al Hayat - السعودية والسودان تعززان سلامة سفن الركاب بنظام «سيفتي»

This is a well favored moved by the Saudi, and Sudanese Authorities to increase the safety of their ferries. Makes me more comfortable using their services.

Dar Al Hayat - السعودية والسودان تعززان سلامة سفن الركاب بنظام «سيفتي»

ROK Straps

These are great straps for traveling if you have luggage that needs to stay on your bike. I used them on our round the world trip and they functioned very well making it easy to put on and remove my luggage on bike.

Visiting the Ameer of Kuwait

Since we have dedicated this Round the World Trip to his highness the Ameer Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al Sabah. The Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Dr Mohammed Al-Afasi, and Major General Faisal M.Al-Jazzaf Chairman and Director General of the Public Authority for Youth and Sports have mad arrangements for us to visit the Ameer

As well as the Crown Price His highness Shaikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah

And the Prime Minister Shaikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

Kuwait TV Interview (Arabic Channel)

Today We got interviewed by Kuwait TV "AL Safat" Program for a whole hour, It was quit interesting , they footage of our arrival and had interviews with Mr. Al-Jazzaf the head of the public Authority for Youth and Sports (Our Sponsors).





We could only have two bikes on the show since Ali got a nail in one of his tires as we were leaving to our homes after the press conference, and still hasn't fixed it.





Our Friend Khalid was kind enough to tape the interview, and put it up on Youtube.