Confusion: Gpsies / Komoot / Garmin / Maps.me / Google Maps / Google Earth / T4Africa

Without any preparation and spontaneously a motorcycle ride with limited fuel and water supply may be adventurous, but possibly stupid. Thus, we have been dealing for some time now with the various possibilities of route planning without risking the spontaneity of off-road travel. You can read a lot on the forums about Tracks 4 Africa , we ordered the paper map and the map for the GPS. After the first sighting comes the disillusionment. The maps are good and informative but not as up-to-date as online services and the internet.

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DHL Freight Service

A German is well organized and plans his trips quite extensively. Not for nothing there are companies like GLOBETROTTER which have a nice turnover with “the first German Black Forest Expedition”. Well, we also belong to this species and plan and think about how our trip is well organized. One of the considerations was not to ship the bikes’ keys with the bikes. We wanted to prevent people from thinking silly and preventing the loss.

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