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The Tuli Block of southern Africa, connecting Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Unlike other multistage tours through Africa or elsewhere around the world this one is supported by three separate governments, with makeshift border crossings along riverbanks (you’ll need to keep your Ziploc-ed passport tucked inside your jersey, alongside your energy chews). Capped at 350 riders, plus 150 support staff, the tour fills up fast once it opens for registration each year in late November.
Last August, I joined a team led by Russel Friedman, one of Wilderness Safaris’ founding partners and chairman of Children in the Wilderness, the educational program Wilderness operates in the communities outside its camps in seven southern African countries. The ride is its chief fundraiser. The course was mostly ancient elephant trails, singletracks across sprawls of loose stones, Moab-style steep cliffs and ridges; forests of swollen baobabs, fever trees, and thorny bush; plus lots of hills and sand, and hills of sand, through a pristine 3,000-square-mile tract that’s otherwise inaccessible to the public. Friedman broke his back mountain biking last year, yet at 65 he still rode me into the dust of which there was plenty. It was the hardest multistage ride I’ve ever been on, but when you’re with some 300-plus South Africans , one thing’s for sure: At the end of the day, you don’t drink alone.
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