by phil | May 7, 2018 | Stories
At the beginning of 2017, I put together a list of things I wanted to accomplish for the year. This is how I did: ✓ Introduce my mom to Andre and West Africa. Mission accomplished in February of last year, right before we left for our first jakarta safari. ✓ X Ride a...
by phil | Mar 27, 2018 | Bissau
My last post was a write-up of our first scooter trip with clients. We just wrapped up another one, this time a two week trip that included Guinea-Bissau. We had another great group – the best group as it was all friends of ours – and once again, we had...
by phil | Dec 29, 2017 | Casamance, Gambia, Senegal, Stories
When I left off, we had just put the clients on the bikes. After tooling around the campement and getting comfortable on the bikes, we rode through a few sandy streets before arriving at a small shawarma shack. After an unexpectedly delicious lunch of chicken...
by phil | Dec 27, 2017 | Casamance, Gambia, Senegal, Stories
Earlier this year, Matt and I went on a scooter safari around West Africa. We knew we would enjoy the trip, but we needed to see if the logistics would be manageable with clients. Four thousand kilometers later, we knew we had something. Now we just needed to find...
by phil | Dec 20, 2017 | Stories
This post is going to be thin on words. I’m in the hole at least 3 blog posts, and I have a lot I want to say about scooter trips, including an upcoming February trip to Bissau. So “Bintou and Dre do America” is going to be very visual. And by visual...
