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Cash or Credit. In Sudan Both Are Problematic.
March 31, 2008 11:49 PM

It's All In The Details. And The Planning. Lake Tana, Ethiopia.
March 31, 2008 11:42 PM

The Dangerous Ride To Bahir Dar
March 31, 2008 04:20 PM

Sit, Shut Up & Wait. How Many Hours To Get A Sudan Visa?
March 30, 2008 09:49 PM

Time For More Ethiopian Coffee
March 30, 2008 12:25 PM

Market Meandering & Historical Heresy in Addis Ababa.
March 29, 2008 05:46 PM

Ras Tafari - Returning Home To Africa
March 28, 2008 10:28 PM

All Roads Lead To Addis.
March 28, 2008 12:17 PM

Speed of Life.
March 26, 2008 10:18 AM

The Donkey Did It.
March 25, 2008 04:48 PM

2008 Archive

	January 2008
	Africa \| Namibia No Motorcycles Permitted in National Parks		January 03
	Africa \| Namibia Windhoek to Okaukuejo - Etosha National Park		January 06
	Africa \| Namibia Etosha National Park - Okaukuejo to Numatoni Camps		January 08
	Africa \| Namibia Etosha National Park Namibia: A WorldRider Wildlife Photo Essay		January 08
	Africa \| Namibia Etosha to Opuwo via Namibia's Legendary C41		January 09
	Africa \| Namibia Back To Base Camp and Doc. Windhoek Again.		January 10
	Africa \| Namibia Quest For Water In Kaokoland. Back In Time With The Himba		January 10
	Africa \| Namibia Grootfontein to Ngepi Camp		January 13
	Africa \| Namibia Ngepi Camp: Caprivi Namibia		January 14
	Africa \| Botswana Solving Botswana's Donkey Problem.		January 15
	Africa \| Botswana Exploring the Okavango Delta		January 17
	Africa \| Botswana \| Namibia Chobe River. Chobe National Park. Ichobezi Houseboat.		January 20
	Africa \| Botswana Riding Through Herds of Elephants.		January 20
	Africa \| Botswana \| Zambia The Real Africa: Border Crossing Into Zambia		January 21
	Africa \| Zambia Aids. Safe Sex. Self Satisfaction.		January 21
	Africa \| Zambia Victoria Falls.		January 24
	Africa \| Zambia Going To Lusaka		January 26
	Africa \| Zambia What's That Oil Leak On My Brake?		January 28
	Africa \| Malawi Another Major Screw Up.		January 30
	Africa \| Zambia Some Days Are Best Forgotten.		January 30

	February 2008
	Africa \| Malawi Lilongwe Malawi.		February 01
	Africa \| Malawi Lilongwe to Zomba to Nkhotakota.		February 02
	Africa \| Malawi Washed Up and Out In Nkhata Bay.		February 05
	Africa \| Malawi What Now?		February 09
	Africa \| Malawi \| Tanzania How Wet And Late Can It Get?		February 11
	Africa \| Tanzania The African Continent Successfully Crossed.		February 12
	Africa \| Tanzania Chilling In Dar es Salaam Lamenting Africa's Opportunities		February 13
	Africa \| Tanzania Zanzibar and Historic Stone Town		February 14
	Africa \| Tanzania President of the World In Tanzania		February 15
	Africa \| Tanzania The Tropical Side of Zanzibar		February 15
	Africa \| Tanzania The Beaches and Blues of Zanzibar		February 15
	Africa \| Tanzania Tire(d) of Bad Luck.		February 18
	Africa \| Tanzania My One-Eyed Look At Arusha And Next Steps		February 21
	Africa \| Tanzania Tangled Up In Tanga		February 21
	Africa \| Tanzania Forget It Kenya; I'm Going To Arusha		February 22
	Africa \| Tanzania On The Horizon: The Endless Plains.		February 24
	Africa \| Tanzania When Strangers Become Friends Forever.		February 25
	Africa \| Tanzania Lake Manyara National Park - Tanzania.		February 27
	Africa \| Tanzania Practicing Swahili in the Lands of the Masai		February 27
	Africa \| Tanzania Making My Way Through The Serengeti		February 29
	Africa \| Tanzania The Land Goes On Forever: Serengeti Safari		February 29
	Africa \| Tanzania Getting Close To Wildlife. Or Wildlife Getting Too Close To Allan?		February 29

	March 2008
	Africa \| Rwanda Indian Food and Genocide: An Unlikely Mix?		March 03
	Africa \| Rwanda \| Tanzania How To Get Out of Tanzania and Into Rwanda		March 03
	Africa \| Rwanda In Africa? It Doesn't Get Any Cleaner Than This.		March 04
	Africa \| Rwanda Gorillas In The Mist of Rwandan Volcanoes		March 06
	Africa \| Rwanda The Lucky One?		March 07
	Africa \| Rwanda \| Uganda You Gotta Uganda!		March 08
	Africa \| Uganda Things Uganda and/or Rwanda and/or Africa.		March 09
	Africa \| Uganda Yes! We Have No Bananas - Taking the Banana Route to Kampala		March 10
	Africa Kampala For Business of Visas		March 12
	Africa \| Uganda Rafting The White Nile		March 14
	Africa \| Kenya The Ides of March		March 15
	Africa \| Kenya No Rain, Rocks nor Rough Roads Will Hold Me Back: To Ethiopia.		March 17
	Africa \| Kenya Nestled in Nairobi at the Junction!		March 17
	Africa \| Kenya No Man's Land: Nairobi to Moyale.		March 19
	Africa \| Kenya Ripped Off In Kenya, And The Amazing Return.		March 22
	Africa \| Ethiopia Hard Rains Come & Gone		March 23
	Africa \| Ethiopia Stones thrown or throwing stones. Breaking mirrors in Ethiopia.		March 24
	Africa \| Ethiopia The Donkey Did It.		March 25
	Africa \| Ethiopia Speed of Life.		March 26
	Africa \| Ethiopia Ras Tafari - Returning Home To Africa		March 28
	Africa \| Ethiopia All Roads Lead To Addis.		March 28
	Africa \| Ethiopia Market Meandering & Historical Heresy in Addis Ababa.		March 29
	Africa \| Ethiopia Sit, Shut Up & Wait. How Many Hours To Get A Sudan Visa?		March 30
	Africa \| Ethiopia Time For More Ethiopian Coffee		March 30
	Africa \| Ethiopia Cash or Credit. In Sudan Both Are Problematic.		March 31
	Africa \| Ethiopia It's All In The Details. And The Planning. Lake Tana, Ethiopia.		March 31
	Africa \| Ethiopia The Dangerous Ride To Bahir Dar		March 31

	April 2008
	Africa \| Ethiopia Staring At The Faces of 104 Angels - After A Lonely Ride To Gonder		April 01
	Africa \| Ethiopia Getting Wet On Lake Tana Exploring Monasteries.		April 01
	Africa \| Ethiopia Wandering Castles & Palaces Thinking Donkeys. Again.		April 02
	Africa \| Ethiopia Making Friends. Sick In Bed.		April 03
	Africa \| Ethiopia If They Build It, They Will Come. The Amazing Churches of Lalibela.		April 03
	Africa \| Europe Longest, Hottest & Most Tiring Day In Africa.		April 04
	Africa \| Sudan Ramblin' In Khartoum. Decisions. Decisions.		April 05
	Africa \| Ethiopia \| Sudan Trading Camels, Buying Benzine & Police Checkpoints: The Road To Khartoum, Sudan		April 05
	Africa \| Sudan Sudan: When It Comes To Desert I Think of Sand.		April 06
	Africa \| Sudan Casey Jones. Riding The Train of Dreams in Sudan.		April 08
	Africa \| Egypt \| Sudan When Your Ship Has Come And You Can't Get Off - Welcome To Egypt		April 11
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East Aswan Egypt. Shower & Rest.		April 15
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East Temples & Dams: Coexisting Peacefully. Sort of.		April 16
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East Getting A Motorcycle Out of Customs In Aswan Egypt		April 18
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East Problems Plague Escape Plan From High Dam in Aswan, Egypt		April 24
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East Back To Sudan -- almost. The Massive Temple of Abu Simbel.		April 28

	May 2008
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East Running From The Convoy: Aswan to Luxor Egypt		May 01
	Africa \| Middle East The Challenges of Being A Tourist In Egypt & The Necropolis of Thebes		May 02
	Africa \| Middle East Crossing the River Nile in Luxor		May 03
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East Midnight At The Oasis.		May 04
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East Egypt Western Desert & The Oases		May 05
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East Western Desert Self Portrait Series		May 06
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East Cairo: The Madness of It All.		May 07
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East Capturing Cairo, The Old Way.		May 08
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East Pyramids & Wars. Egyptian History.		May 09
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East The Return of the Zambian Tire & Doc Rides Again		May 09
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East Conspicuous Display of Devotion, Nature's Course, Or God's Will?		May 11
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East Sharm Can Wait: Remembering The Sinai Terrorists Acts		May 11
	Africa \| Egypt \| Middle East The Suez Canal & Mount Sinai -- Wars, Religion & The Red Sea		May 11
	Africa \| Egypt \| Jordan \| Middle East Getting Out: Nearly As Hard As Getting Into Egypt		May 12
	Jordan \| Middle East Where Am I Going?		May 13
	Jordan \| Middle East Wandering Through The Lost City of Petra		May 14
	Jordan \| Middle East Attacked In Jordan		May 16
	Israel \| Jordan \| Middle East My Israeli & Jordanian Quagmire. A Wall Too Far?		May 17
	Israel \| Middle East Old Jerusalem & Sixty Years of Israeli Statehood		May 18
	Israel \| Middle East Mount Olives, Temple Mount, St. Peter, Virgin Mary, Mary Magdelene & More.		May 19
	Israel \| Middle East Church of the Holy Sepulchre		May 19
	Israel \| Middle East Western Wall & Temple Mount: Old Jerusalem Rings Real		May 20
	Jordan \| Middle East \| Syria Syrian Visa: Another Waiting Game		May 21
	Middle East \| Syria Tea With Syrian Officials & My Shaky Landing In Damascus.		May 22
	Middle East \| Syria Opening My Eyes & Mind To Damascus		May 23
	Middle East \| Syria Faces & Places of Damscus, Syria		May 24
	Middle East \| Syria Crac Des Chavaliers		May 26
	Middle East \| Syria Wandering Aleppo's Old City		May 27
	Middle East \| Syria All Good In Aleppo		May 27
	Middle East \| Syria Aleppo - Souq City & The Citadel		May 30
	Asia \| Middle East \| Syria \| Turkey Goodbye Syria. Hello Turkey.		May 31

	June 2008
	Asia \| Turkey In Fairy Land: Kapadokya. Cappadocia - Turkey.		June 03
	Asia \| Turkey The Crooked Merchant of Cappadocia		June 05
	Asia \| Turkey Riding Turkey With New Friends		June 07
	Asia \| Europe Yeah baby! I made it!		June 09
	Asia \| Europe \| Turkey Istanbul. So Much To See		June 10
	Asia \| Turkey Riding Through A Small Turkish City		June 14
	Asia \| Turkey Longing for better roads?		June 15
	Asia \| Europe \| Turkey The Arduous Process of Getting Home		June 18

	July 2008
	Asia \| Turkey The Price of Gas? Come on!		July 01
	Asia \| Europe \| Turkey Istanbul (not Constantinople!)		July 02
	Asia \| Europe \| Turkey Hassles at the Port of Derince		July 04

	August 2008
	Asia \| Turkey \| USA Welcome Back to USA: Disaster & Ripped Off.		August 08
	North America \| USA Back In The U.S.A.		August 13
	WorldRider Get Together in DC This Weekend.		August 31

	September 2008
	North America \| USA Putting The Pieces Back Together		September 06
	North America \| USA Washington, DC - My Homecoming		September 11
	North America \| USA Making My Way Back To California		September 13

Where WorldRider Is Now

Where WorldRider Is Now

WorldRider Tracker

Miles Traveled:	54,790
Days Traveling:	707
Fuel Consumed:	981.1 gal.
Photos Shot:	26,877
Borders Crossed:	52
Currently In:	Istanbul, Turkey
As of 5/23/08.

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