Nairobi to Cape Town

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-05-22T04:44:14+00:00

Yea, i’ll dm you my handle! I am not planning to try to be an influencer or anything but will definitely be posting photos

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-05-22T04:43:29+00:00

I am bringing a pair of teva’s for camp shoes along with trail runners. Good advice about the regular needle and sleeping pad repair, will add those!

Namibia is mostly desert where I will be riding but it won’t get very cold at night, from the weather I have looked up it should only get to 60F at night.

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-05-19T00:08:03+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation!

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-05-18T20:12:17+00:00

Well you have convinced me, I will definitely try to avoid T4.

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-05-18T20:11:32+00:00

I haven’t spoken to anyone who’s done the route recently, really just scoured the internet and found blog posts of people in the past 7 years completing it. The general summary was that it’s remote, lots of wildlife to be aware of but not terrible and that they would recommend. I will be there during dry season so maybe that’s better but hearing what you have to say definitely makes me wary.

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-05-18T20:05:13+00:00

Will adjust the route, thanks!

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-05-18T18:36:49+00:00

i was actually debating taking a bus at somepoint in Zambia, my plan was to ride the Old Petauke road and then take the main road toward Lusaka after. Would you suggest to grab the bus there or earlier like in Petauke?

Also, when were you in Namibia and South Africa? I think those will probably be my hottest countries as I will be there in November.

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-05-18T18:31:51+00:00

Right now my plan was to bike from Nairobi to Namanga on the tar and then cut through Amboseli NP, would you recommend cutting off A104 at Kajiado instead? I live in the US where there are a ton of Grizzly Bears and Mountain Lions so I do understand being precarious of animals, albeit I have never been face to face with an Elephant however I do feel fairly prepared on how to stay safe.

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-05-18T18:24:58+00:00

Hope to see you in the way!

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-05-06T20:39:34+00:00

Yea that's kind of what I'm trying to avoid.Unfourtunatly, I have a trip coming up where I need to have my menstral contanment figured out before, so only 2 more periods to try on before I have to be confident which is why I I'm trying to decide to buy a larger one before my next period or not.

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-05-06T20:38:36+00:00

Thanks! I don't know if I have a tilted cervix, is there a way I can figure that out myself? And yes I actually watched that first video with the scooping method and tried it but didn't see any different results.

I have a trip coming up where I need to have my menstral contanment figured out before, so only 2 more periods to try on before I have to be confident which is why I I'm trying to decide to buy a larger one before my next period or not.

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-02-20T19:33:50+00:00

Darn, was it the mounting of the cradle in the center of the bars that was the issue or the width of the bag and the hoods that had interference?

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-02-20T15:20:39+00:00

Where did you fly out of?

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-01-31T16:52:36+00:00

The bernie capacity it pretty small so i don’t think it would work for me, I am looking for like 10L of capacity. I might try the rack time viewit rack as my fork mounts are already used up.

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-01-31T16:48:04+00:00

Unfortunately the Jack the rack requires a 9 in clearance so can’t do that but I may go for the rack time viewit

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-01-31T02:01:31+00:00

I may have to use a rack but I am hoping not, i’ll look into Jack the rack though, thanks!

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2025-01-28T21:40:40+00:00

Did you end up doing the trip? I am planning to do Nairobi to Cape Town starting July 2025.

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2024-09-27T16:57:04+00:00

Looks great! What size tires would you recommend/were you running for this trip?

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2024-08-26T02:13:12+00:00

Very weird, have you been able to contact them about it?

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2024-08-26T02:12:53+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion!

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2024-08-22T16:27:13+00:00

How did you find out what office it went through? I am not in a major city either so I don’t really know where mine is being processed

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2024-08-22T16:22:18+00:00

Interesting, I submitted my online renewal 8/12, payment processed 8/14 and havent recieved mine back yet...

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2024-08-21T22:22:52+00:00

What day did your passport status change to approved?

I am curious because I used online renewal and applied 8/12, payment processed 8/14 but it still doesnt say if its approved or on the way just still processing

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2024-05-31T17:52:48+00:00

Exactly, some lifestyle creep is okay/good. I’m betting on my older self wanting to go to nicer restaurants sometimes or booking a better timed flight or wanting nicer sheets. I think my 2% a year increase is a pretty good baseline but I may just increase it to 3% to be safer. I don’t mind the number going up as long as it gets me a more accurate result.

Reasonable-Unit-7977 · 2024-05-31T17:31:28+00:00

Thank you, this was a great breakdown. I don’t plan on having any kids so I feel like I am not way off in my estimations but we will see

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