It started when I saw the first edition of the Yamaha Super Tenere, in 2010, in a small Yamaha dealer on the coast of the Atlantic in the Namib Desert, in the small of Swakopmund. I took my V Star 1100 to be serviced and I saw this beauty, freshly off the factory, being showcased there. I test rode it and I fell in love instantly. I told some friends then: " Some day I may go around the world on one of these"...
Well, three years passed, I am ready!!! The 2012 Super Tenere is fully equipped (crash bars, skid plate, wind deflectors, cases, etc), I changed the muffler, added some gadgets, plus all my personal gear (tent, sleeping bag, mattress, kitchen utensils, machette, axe, solar panels, first aid kit, etc), packed and ready to go. I have 500 books on my Ipad, 21 days of music, my GPS is fully loaded with maps, I planned the itinerary (not fully, because I want some unknown as well, but most of the way).
My wife and I worked for the past 3 years to save for this event, we put up with a lot of mockery and envy and questions and doubts, from both friends and family and strangers. In the end, it is our life and we are not 15 years old to listen to anyone, anyway (in our early forties actually).

We lived in Africa for most of the last 20 years, we did some crazy stuff in our lives and this just falls in to our way of life anyway. We camped in the most isolated places, from the Kalahari to the Congo, from the Amazon to the Arctic in the past years... Carmen, my wife knows how to cook in the simplest conditions and now we will put all this expertise to the test.

We have a website and a blog, which will be updated with our progress: Nomad Sports Academy | Zambia
This is not only our website for the expedition but it is one of the reasons for this expedition.

More from the road soon... Riders from across the world, greetings! We look forward to meet you, read from you and write to you...

John Nomad