A Motorcycle Odyssey

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Where is he now ...? In London, reviewing the film he has shot during the journey, with the aim of getting a documentary together for television. (March 28th 2008)
Contact him at frank@global.net.pg

Frank Butler writes: I would like to be able to claim that I am making this trip around the world with my motorcycle with a view to ending world hunger, or to find the definitive cure for cancer. I'm serious, I would love to say that it's for a good cause, but I can't. The truth is, I am travelling because its what I like to do, more than anything else in the world, I like to travel ... from green temperate places ... to stranger parts.
		I have travelled a bit and collected a T-shirt or two, but this is my most ambitious project to date. If I succeed at this, my next endeavour will be to climb Mt. Everest in nothing but my underpants. Actually, that's what a Kiwi bloke said to me when I told him about this trip...I didn't think that was very encouraging of him. If you are a first time visitor then you probably want to know a little bit more about this site. My name is Frank Butler. If you want to know why I am the way I am, then click on the fifth button down on your left, which should give you some insight. The Bike, Mr BeEm is a BMW F650 GS 'Dakar'. If you want to know a little more about what makes him tick, then click on the fourth button down on the left. The reason that we got together is to go off around the world and have a good old time and just maybe the odd adventure or two. With his rugged Germanic good looks and my meagre funds, how can we fail? Well that's basically what this site is all about, me and the bike going off and having a wacky old time. If you hoped it was going to be more, sorry that's it.
Oh by the way, check out the sponsors (seventh button down on the left); buy a newspaper, get some new tyres, sue somebody's arse while you're at it. And don't forget to send an e-mail to someone you love and tell them about this site.
The first leg was my UK base in Hertfordshire (Oct 28th 2007), to Algeciras on the Straits of Gibralter (Jan 13th). We came by Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Gothenberg, Stockholm, Berlin, Dresden, Paris, Narbonne (by train), Barcelona, Valencia, Malaga (for the Dakar), and Gaucin.
The second leg was from Tangier to Dakar (April 3rd). We came by Marrakech, Casablanca, and Agadir, then Dakhla in Western Sahara, where I kite-surfed, then into Mauritania and down to Nouakchott, where I met some friends. We made a trip to the mountains to Chingeti and the Oudane oasis; then I drove down to the Senegal frontier, and down to Dakar. Next, east for Bamako and Timbuktu, and south to Ougadougou in Burkina Fasso, Lome in Togo, and Conotou in Benin, and on towards Capetown... the latest report

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