As we sped across the narrow channel separating the Greek Island of Chios from Turkey, I thought surf […]
Get ’em to the Greeks
We rolled off the ship in Athens with rain stinging our faces, which set us immediately wondering why […]
We’re on a Boat
Perched at the edge of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula we’d run out of Africa to ride. With Syria off-limits, […]
Holy Waters
Having been landlocked since leaving the Kenyan coast, we set off for the Middle East in the hopes […]
Surfing the Wild West
For ten months I combed the darkest corners of west Africa with my surfboard strapped to a motorbike. […]
Motosurf Gear Review 2014
Plenty of dudes have an unhealthy preoccupation with gear of one kind or another and I’m no different. […]
Suitcase Surfers of Kenya
Jamie and I saddled up and rode west from the N’gorongoro crater, headed for the coast and hoping […]
Sliding Zanzibar
The Chinese Dream had seen better days than the one we rode out of Baobab Valley headed for […]
The Mozambique Sandbox
Traversing the Kwazulu-Natal Coast of South Africa we didn’t know whether or not Mozambique would let us into […]
Cycles South
We reached Cape Agulhas at the leading edge of a storm and turned north to begin the journey […]
The Bottom of Africa
Sitting in a comfy Cape Town backpacker hostel where I’d pitched my tent for the week, I began […]
Rhinos in the Bush, Skeletons on the Coast
I rode away from the Angola desert with my brain still full of memories of racing down watery […]
Chasing Down Rumors in Angola
During the last few years, there have been murmurs of endless barreling lefthanders somewhere in Angola. Two weeks […]
Get Moving
Suffering a bout of bromantic nostalgia after some time on the road..
Shelter in the Congo
I took a wrong turn getting back to the main road in Gabon and ended up riding in […]
Surfing Hippos and Other Equatorial Legends
In 2004 National Geographic ran a story about a national park in Gabon with what they called ‘surfing […]
Help Appears in Cameroon
I crossed the border into Cameroon at dark after 11 hours ride from Abuja and collapsed in an […]
The Gold Coast of Ghana
After I’d finished sliding around in the mud near the Ghana border, I looked up to see oddly […]
Going Left in Liberia
After more than a month, I finally managed to extricate myself from the Freetown peninsula. The welcoming nature […]
Freetown Sliders
Some of the most stoked surfers I’ve ever met are here at Bureh beach at the south end […]
Escape from Dakar
It’s a strange feeling when a foreign capital like Dakar begins to offer the comfort of familiarity.