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Zambia

BikeZungu 2017: A Rewind

June 14, 2021July 14, 2020 by Mike Henry

Exhaustion and deliverance on a 198-km ride from Lusaka to Siavonga: The full story of how an inadequate rider and a MacGyver bike barely made it to Lake Kariba

Categories Adventure, Recommended MediaTags Biking, Zambia

Top 5 Haircuts of the Last 2 Years

April 10, 2021June 14, 2019 by Mike Henry

Haircuts abroad don’t always lead to textbook results, but they reliably breeed good stories

Categories UncategorizedTags India, Nepal, Nigeria, Senegal, Zambia

The Changing Tires Summit

June 29, 2021December 2, 2018 by Mike Henry

A chance to sit with close friends, and reflect on our lives of movement

Categories Travel PhilosophyTags Zambia

Thank you, Zambia

June 29, 2021May 25, 2018 by Mike Henry

An elegy to my time in Zambia, the country that treated me far better than I deserved

Categories AdventureTags Zambia

Among Giants on the Lower Zambezi

June 29, 2021May 1, 2018 by Mike Henry

A lazy, terrifying ride down Southern Africa’s greatest watercourse

Categories AdventureTags Zambia

A Meditation on MacGyver (and his cousin Jugaad)

June 30, 2021February 25, 2018 by Mike Henry

Not only a character or a word, but a concept, a guardian angle, a critical way of life to learn in the Real World

Categories Travel PhilosophyTags Zambia

The Rains of Mpongwe

June 14, 2021February 24, 2018 by Mike Henry

An ode to Zambia’s rainy season, and a story of four friends making their own fun in the middle of nowhere

Categories AdventureTags Zambia

Photo Nshima: On the road in Zambia

July 7, 2021February 7, 2018 by Mike Henry

Is there any better feeling than being on the road in Zambia, with the people this country has made into your best friends?

Categories PhotosTags Zambia

Making our own fun at Mulungushi

June 30, 2021January 21, 2018 by Mike Henry

Our trips aren’t tourist brochure material. And that’s how we like it.

Categories AdventureTags Zambia

BikeZungu 2017

April 8, 2021December 26, 2017 by Mike Henry

How a MacGyver’d bike and an inadequate rider barely made it to Lake Kariba

Categories UncategorizedTags Zambia

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