HU Travellers Meeting South Africa 2017

Charles Garrett Freedom, Solo Travel & Managing Limitations Been on the road now for 18 months through Africa, Europe, and North America. True freedom and dealing with limitations along with travel experiences and insights.

What does it mean to be truly free to travel the world and what are our limitations? How does one live the biggest life possible? This presentation is about sharing my story and travel anecdotes whilst giving some practical tools to help inspire your adventure. My biggest limitation were about being alone, but yet I set out to cover a continent solo.

Ronell Scheepers & Barend La Grange Twist in the Tale: The East Africa 6 Adventure tour to six East African countries via public transport only: Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda & Kenya

Explore East Africa: Public Transport Only! A tour to Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya by 10 adventurous souls! Aim: to explore and experience Africa on 'ground' level. Mixing with locals, travel in crowded buses with them, "eat from the street" tasting local cuisine all the way, "stay where the locals stay", and more. Also, beautiful and interesting places visited.

About Ronell: Ronell is a Free Stater from South Africa. Lesotho Snow 4x4 Tour July 2015 (-13 temps! and camping!), Angola Motorbike Tour Sept 2015, East Africa via Public Transport Only July 2017. At other times, she's been a farmer, agribusiness woman, and photographer. Love the outdoors, camping, kayaking, and adventure.

About Barend: Barend has traveled through Africa for the last 14 years and only uses public transport. This way of travel is very close to the people and the environment. A few years ago he and Foeta Krige, RSG Monitor and Spectrum Director, traveled through 14 countries; from the southernmost to the northernmost point in Africa (from Cape Agulhas to Ras ben Sakka in Tunisia). In August 2011, with the permission of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, he spent a week in a Burundi refugee camp in the Tabora Province in Tanzania, where 45 000 refugees are living and, in extreme circumstances, have to survive. This first-rate practical experience allows him to better understand the people of Africa with their diversity. Barend was born in the Cape. There went to school, study and worked. However, he has been in Johannesburg for the last 19 years. He has been married to Annalene for 42 years and they have two sons and five grandchildren.

Christina du Toit, Where In The World Is Mom? Mom On A Career Break Cycles Through Japan Videos and photo presentation of a mother exploring Japan on bicycle all by herself

Do you sometimes dream of packing your bicycle and experiencing the world from a different perspective? Ever considered Japan? Although it is very foreign and different, it is a beautiful and safe country to satisfy that wanderlust. Enjoy some videos and tips on what I learned during my three months of cycle touring through Japan. Handy tips on free accommodation, what to pack, crossing language barriers, and so much more.

Christina is a mother and internal auditor who, mid-way through her life, took a career break to go and explore the unknown on her mountain bike. She took six months' unpaid leave and embarked on an adventure in all aspects totally foreign to her - cycle touring through Japan. Solo.

Megan and Matthew Snyman, Great World Trek The Great World Trek A married couple of South African doctors traveling the world for two years on motorcycles.

Matthew and Megan recently returned from a two-year motorcycle trip through South America, North America, and Africa with even more on the cards. Come and see some beautiful pictures, some crazy videos, and hear some funny stories. Plus, insights into living as a couple on-the-road and how Matthew performed a miracle by getting his wife to agree to ride a motorcycle around the world. All questions welcome!

Matthew and Megan are two medical doctors, and a married couple, who rode their motorcycles across three continents for two years in aid of Doctors Without Borders. They're also proudly South African!

Kobus Fourie Short Adventures!

Experienced adventure traveller who will share his thoughts on shorter trips he did through Namibia and Botswana. It's not always possible to do longer trips but in the meanwhile there is nothing wrong doing a shorter trip for 2-3 weeks. He will also do a presentation about camping gear and modifications on your bike.

Kobus has been riding motorcycles for 40+ years, and has travelled throughout Southern Africa, including the Cairo to Cape Town tour, as well as Europe. He is the host of the Horizons Unlimited South Africa Travellers Meeting. Kobus will also host the game drives on bikes, not to be missed.

Anton Goossens Ride outs!

Anton is the owner of Bikers Paradise Potchefstroom. He will do two outrides in the Vredefort Dome world heritage site over the weekend. We can without doubt recommend doing his trips.

Matthew Snyman, Great World Trek How to Pack a Medical Kit for Adventure Small, light, and able to fix nearly everything - the best way to pack a medical kit for adventure biking.

Medical doctor Matthew Snyman recently returned from a two-year round-the-world motorcycle trip. He gives insight into the best way to pack a comprehensive medical kit for the road, what to bring, and what to leave at home.

Johan Gray Slow Riding Skills Skills courses... with a twist

Johan is recognised as one of the best Dual Purpose riders and coaches in South Africa. His riding experience spans 35 years with most of it in the motocross discipline and later years in the off-road discipline. As a member of the South African Defence Force Bike Squad he won the Driver of the Year - Motorcycle competition in 1984. He participated in the demonstration team with most of the his military service in the operational area.

In 2012 he competed in off-road racing, dominating his class, winning 7 of the 8 races. Unfortunately, not finishing the one due to food poisoning. In 2014 Johan won the National BMW GS ECO Skills Event on a BMW F800GS Adv and in 2015 the Sabie GS Challenge Skills Event on a BMW GS 1200 Adv LC.

For eight years he fulfilled the role of Chief Instructor at the well-known and leading African Dream Adventures, South Africa (ADA SA). He set and put standards in place and developed leading rider development curriculums. ADA is known for approaching training in a way that ensures every student experiences personal attention, like painting with a pinstripe brush rather than a roller. In 2015 Johan as Programme Director delivered the Women Development Programme.

He's back at HU South Africa 2017 with TWO presentations on the skills course!... and he's added a twist. Johan is highly recommended in South Africa. This is a must-attend over the weekend!

Hein van Rensburg Practical Route Planning and GPS - How to use Basecamp efficiently, and set up your GPS correctly

Using Basecamp software is a tough problem for many people to plan a trip and use it for navigation. I am going to show you a few easy steps to be able to use these advanced tools for trip planning and transfer it to your GPS so that it will work. My method is simple and effective and have been proven over 5 years of travel of more that 100 000 km on my bikes. Bring your GPS to the presentation and also bring your PC so that you can do it practically during the workshop. I will show you how to plan a trip, plan a route and transfer it to your GPS so that it is not recalculated and changed, but works on the bike.

I have traveled South Africa, Europe, USA and the Middle East extensively over 30 years. I am an Electronic Engineer and have worked in the Military and Aerospace Industry for 35 years. I just love to ride my bikes and am an avid golfer.

LOTS of presentations to come! As people register to present we'll list them here.

How about you? We're all here to learn, and there's LOTS to learn! We want to do more presentations and seminars - but we need volunteers to give them! Any topic you can contribute having to do with motorcycle travel, maintenance, planning etc, lasting 20 minutes or more, would be great. Please contact us here to volunteer.