"Sam originally intended to spend a year riding the length of Africa but this evolved into an eight year, 200,000 mile journey around the world ... [This] third book takes you on a three year voyage of discovery through Southern Africa and South America. This time Sam rides and shares the adventures with someone special, the brave and indefagitable Birgit, The two of them have an endless fascination with the world and though their life experience is very different, they complement each other perfectly and the adventures just keep on happening. This was a time before most travellers had even heard of global positioning satellites or 'SatNav' ... This was the spring of 1996 ... not so long ago, but times were changing"--Foreword.