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Yesterday, through a mutual friend, I met Mr Ronnie Borrageiro, the Gypsy Biker. He is a South African, a resident of Pretoria, who is riding his motorcycle around the world.

Ronnie is a calmly-spoken yet determined man who has some impressive experience in motorcycle trekking through Africa. He finds himself in the fortunate position of having the time and resources to live a dream that many of us have, and now he is on his way.

His bike is a BMW R1200GS and in addition to his impressive array of sponsors, his efforts are being reported on the BMW Motorrad Web site itself. That is where we come in.

Dreams like Ronnie’s are not just of benefit to the dreamer. His desire is to share his experiences with everyone through his Web site. Already, he has accumulated a fascinating array of experiences and photographs from the Southern African leg of his journey, and this collection will grow several-fold over the course of his two-year journey.

If you would like to follow Ronnie’s exploits, and I suggest that you do, please drop by his site at http://www.motogypsybiker.com/. He will be updating his blog regularly as infrastructure and travel conditions allow. Judging by what he has already posted, Ronnie’s journey will be of great interest to anyone who loves travel, technology, motorcycles or wide open spaces.

Perhaps a few of you will land up following in his wheel tracks in the future.

I’m going to be helping out in a very small way by promoting his site and, if you are interested in what he is doing, you could also blog it, tweet it or mention it on Facebook. There is nothing wrong with shameless promotion when it might help a weary traveller buy gasoline in Bolivia or a beer in Bangladesh. There will be further news of his travels posted here from time to time.

Once again, you can follow Ronnie’s progress at these links:

http://www.motogypsybiker.com
http://ronnieborr.com

“Join the Ride, Live the Deam”

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