Webale kusima. Thanks Jonathan:)
I really loved interviewing this guy because it was wonderful to see Uganda through a first-time visitor’s eyes.

Km’s covered: 33,500km – approx 28,500 by bicycle.

Some 26,000km of the total distance covered so far has been on the roads, paths, flood plains, and over the mountains, and through the jungles, bush, deserts, towns, villages and cities of Africa. During that entire time, through the 45 African countries that Lettie [his bike] and I travelled, never was I once turned down for a place to pitch my tent. Each country is different, and the people and traditions and languages as varied as the shades of the sunsets across the continent, but the one absolute constant has been the incredible hospitality and kindness and warmth shown to a complete dust covered stranger…humbling beyond words, and the biggest possible retort to the distorted and one sided view of Africa portrayed by the media…my belief that 99.9% of humans are amazing and just want the best for their families and communities (and strangers) has been reinforced over and over again; the rest sadly make the news. Africa is the furthest thing from a ‘Dark Continent’, and the sooner more of us believe that, the sooner its enormous potential will begin to be fulfilled.

Starting: Sun 30th June 2013, Cape Town stadium, South Africa.
Ending: Sat 17th January 2015, Cairo, Egypt.

Ron has such a great story and a brilliant attitude to life – hope you get to meet him in August 2015 at the match! x x (maybe I should come too?)

Hey Willy, I know you want to do a big motorbike adventure yourself. Do you think you could drag Mike the Bike through the jungle of the Congo and the deserts of the Sahara?
If you’re interested in following Ron’s story in more detail, look at his Facebook page where every week he does a write up on the previous week’s cycling, challenges, occasional disasters and #HumanSpirit moments. Truly inspirational.

Thanks for the appreciation Solomon! Ron will be reaching London in August 2015. I expect he might want a bit of a holiday by then! So I guess he will head for family and friends back in Cape Town. He was really blown away by Uganda, so I’m sure he will be back in time.