How a little off-roading got me into trouble.. [S5 - Eps. 57]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2021
- In this episode I am going off the beaten track and ride my Honda CRF250L through the African bush. I come across an elephant skeleton, but also get myself into some trouble. Oops. This is going to take a while to fix...
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Here in the western US, we call those thorns, Goat Heads. Don't worry about them boring in, they wear faster than the rubber. So they're ground off faster than your tread. I really love following your adventures.
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You blow my mind. You are out in an endless desert--no water, no petrol, no people, no animals for miles and you feel no trepidation. Your curiosity drives you to check out elephant tracks and skeletons. You are truly a student of the earth. I can't imagine all the knowledge that will reside in you when you are old. You are an amazing person. A true explorer. Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm for the planet and the beautiful videos.
Beautifully said
Her life depends on that CRF 250.
🙏🙏Amen !
@@savage22bolt32 😂 , it literally drives through torns that
Totally agree.
Incredible woman. I can’t believe she isn’t world renowned for her travels, alone on a motorcycle!
but she is....
You are always so considerate and respectful of the wildlife, the natural habitat, and the locals with their cattle. That is so commendable!
On a polluting and noisy motorcycle.........
My Itchy Boots Africa tube scarf arrived yesterday. I put it on, pulled the helmet on over it .. sat on the bike and out of nowhere, found myself saying, "Let's go!" Looked at myself in the mirror and surprised to see brown eyes looking back. Oh well.... vicariously will have to do. Stay safe Noraly and thank you for bringing such cheer and joy to +807,000 of us!
Don't it make my brown eyes blue, that's a song. 😛
There's always coloured contacts!
Great comment Richard.
If anyone is so brave to go to such remote places alone and with such joy, I don't know of them. Plus, her video work, sound, narration, and musical additions are the best I've seen to go with where she is. Very relaxing. She is a fantastic person.
Seeing you pulling the "thousands" of thorns out of the tires with a Zen state of patience and endurance reminded me of the times in life I've confronted similar kinds of frustratingly repetitive mundane tasks, and often ones that I could have avoided. It's a reality that occasionally happens in the things we do. I enjoyed seeing the inclusion of this in your video and empathized with what you had to do, and I appreciated your cheer and good nature in tacking the thorny problem.
Noraly, I just love how happy you are ALL of the time! You never seem to stop smiling and laughing, no matter what the situation! I think you have 100% of what it takes to enjoy these adventures, and that is a positive attitude and a happy demeanor! Thanks for sharing your travels with us and stay safe!
Well, you at the least need 100% to stay happy, that's for sure.
In Zimbabwe, stopping at the roadside, even on a main road to drop off or pick up passengers is like a national pastime. Absolutely adore your videos and love Namibia. Hope to travel there again one day soon.
Those little devils were a nightmare of my childhood growing up in the village. Luckily I had an uncle who made us sandals with wheel tyres, they did help a lot.
Back in the 60's hippies made that kind of sandals they called them JCWW's Jesus Christ Water Walkers. Guaranteed for 50,000 miles that twice around the world.
Ooff yes getting those in your feet must be sooo painful! 😫
Love your memory Tom, thank you for Sharing it .. I know them well, living in South Africa..
I recall in Sotho those "sandals" were called "Rampashanas". Mostly made from crossply tires
Not to over share but we also learnt how to make tubeless tyres for our BMXs using using plastic bags and old cloths. Or just a knot around the puncture area, not a comfy ride but it will get you from home to school and back. Good times indeed lol
What an adventurer! There you are, in the middle of Africa, no roads to be seen, exploring the remains of an elephant. And giving us views that no one ever has before. Truly amazing Noraly!
At 21.02 ostriches crossing road, Noraly: "Beautiful birds". Ostrich and beautiful, two words that are rarely used together. But for Noraly, being positive is almost a trade mark, so everything becomes beautiful, fantastic and awesome. Wonderful.
....but they are beautiful, their long eyelashes, the gorgeous feathers....
@@patrickcavanaghkilmartin Totally agree with you! I find them beautiful as well. 🙂
Neo dinosaurs.
Noraly never seems stressed even when she's lost in the desert and having bike issues. I'd be playing all the worst case scenarios through my head. She just checks out some elephant skulls and moves on
Noraly goes from ‘I haven’t seen humans at all’ to a veritable traffic jam 😂. What a lovely day of adventuring.
She lied to us(maybe). I can see a car on the road in 4:14 :D
Elephant tracking added to Noraly's limitless list of skills.. ❤️❤️
I've only been a fan of this channel for a week and I'm completely hooked: Production values through the roof; best use of steady cams ever; awesome navigation skills, and those gorgeous drone shots are just stunning. The fact that we have an articulate and personable host in Noraly is just icing on a brilliant cake.
All things considered, the "not too expensive second hand" Honda 250 has gone wherever you decided to go, some of it pretty rough countryside, reliably and without complaining. Seems to have been a very good choice.
It is a honda! Honda's engines are bulletproof
I don't know how I got the recommendation for your channel but it's been really a treat. Everything about you, your attitude, your commentary, your videos is just fascinating. I'm a lover of empty deserted wildernesses. And you have made it possible for me to wander in such places. All the best wishes, prayers and regards for you.
Those are called Devil's Thorns....can't tell you how many times I ran through patches of them as a kid...gives me shivers!
In Texas we call those thorns "Goat Heads". I'm not sure if it is your infectious laugh, beautiful smile, or the interesting places, but we love your videos.
Picking out Savanah's thorns, was truly a bonding moment.😁
It was 😂😜
In the Southern US we call them sand spurs and sand burs. In the Bad Lands of Oklahoma they have a version locally called goat head stickers as they are shaped oddly like a goat’s head with two large sharp points. Loved this video.
At this point I think it’s fair to say you purchased the perfect bike for this trip. It’s been flawless!
Just love when the drone rises and Itchyboots and Savanna become a tiny specks in a huge, huge landscape.......
Her eyes are so blue!
🥰
The further north that anyone travels in Namibia, the greener and more populated it becomes. But it is still sparsely populated compared with most of the rest of the world. I worked there on and off over several years, enjoying the relative lushness along the banks of the Cubango and Cuito Rivers, which are part of the border between Namibia and Angola.
There is an AMAZING camp in the Caprivi strip (western side) called Ngepi Camp. It’s in the Okavango river and has the most amazing cage pool. You should go stay there! It’s a great place with a lot of history in the area.
@@bradleyAbennett yes! The Caprivi strip is truly beautiful.
@@bradleyAbennett It is Namibia panhandle.
Gosh what a journey again.
And again, I'm extremely impressed how calm you manage everything. Maximum respect and thanks for sharing your adventures. Greetings from Germany
No problem with elephants and lions, no problem with bumpy or sandy road, no problem with thorns in her tyres.....but the city is too big and busy! I love your philosophy Noraly!! Ciao, Edoardo
I hope you enjoy making the video as much as I watching the video.
The ABBA guest house! Bjorn and Benny may have fallen on hard times!
Absolutely
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Noraly has to listen to Fernando song 🎵 all day long.😛
I still had Knowing me, knowing you - aha, going around in my head 15mins after seeing that :)
Too funny! 😂 FYI, “abba” is also a Sesotho word, meaning “to carry”. This refers to carrying your baby on your back, wrapped in a blanket.
My Partner and I picked up some of those thorns while out cycling one day. My partner's tyres went down instantly. I was lucky enough to just make it the 10kms to home to get the car and bike carrier. No it wasn't in the middle of a desert, so hardly worthy of a mention. P.
Born free
As free as the wind blows
As free as the grass grows
Born free to follow your heart
Live free
And beauty surrounds you
The world still astounds you
Each time you look at a star
Stay free
Where no walls divide you
You're free as a roaring tide so there's no need to hide
Born free
And life is worth living
But only worth living
'Cause you're born free
🙏
In Western Australia's those thorns are called "bindis" and they rank there with blocks of Lego when u stand on them.
“And see what happens next”
With that spirit noone can go wrong. 😃👌
We call those thorns "duwweltjies!" :-)
I've been in a similar experience pulling thorns from motorcycle tyres after a long day off road. I was in camp, tweezers in hand near a crackling fire grilling meat and drinking beer the Jeep guys brought along. I love your adventures, stay safe!
08:07 When you are following the tyre tracks of the guy who was lost before you. 12:20 those are Devil Thorns or 'dubbeltjies' and they grow throughout the arid regions of Southern Africa. The spines aren't long enough to get through a motorbike tyre, but they go straight through a bicycle tyre and tube. We used to run around barefoot in the veld as kids and would sometimes get them in our feet. THAT HURTS!
Devil's thorns are truly awful! Looks like you're following animal tracks, not a road 🙈 Much to the envy of us off-roaders 😉🥰
Btw, elephants are known to scatter the bones of those who died in their herds. Supposedly their burial rites. 🐘💚🐘
In Colorado they're called "Goat Heads"...they eat bicycles, and the right one can take out any tire.
@@bigcity2085 eye concur fellow coloradan!
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Thanks for sharing that. I was thinking that predators may be close by because who else would have scattered the bones? I guess scavengers could have as well, but never thought the elephants themselves would do that. How interesting. 🤓👍
So sad I missed you when you came to Windhoek, but thank you for coming to my beautiful country.
Big fan.
All the roads lead to Windhoek.😛
Those thorns look like puncture vine, which grows all over the southwestern U.S. in dry, sandy soil. The bane of bicyclists and dogs.
Thorns called, In socal usa, Goat heads. Bicyclists worst nightmare. Got 5 flats one 100deg f day on a 30mi ride. Repair "Gel" in first tubes did not last long. Three spare tubes and walking last 1/4mi got me home. They are truly the Devils spawn. I am truly impressed by those tires though, on n off road especially in sand !!
Noraly: "... That's the plan,... Let's go!?"
Everyone : "Absolutely!"
You rode through devil thorns, They aren't that bad for tires as they aren't very hard. But, if you step on them it is very very painful.
Cat heads in Australia. Nastiest weed ever!
yup. drive through loads on the enduro bike regularly. no need to pull them out.
@@ngj874 In Itchy's home land there is hawthorn which has spikes 1 inch long and rock hard. They puncture tyres that have anti puncture belts, as if going through sliced bread....
yup, would not harm your wheels. you can leave them.
@@frutt5k Yeah same here in Blighty, re `thorn` ,as the shrub/tree is colloquially named. I`ve done some hawthorn hedging by hand this week, removing eight foot off the top and some thorns were over 6" long. I remember thinking that if I trip and fall on one of those, it`d be like being daggered. One section I did was an evergreen blackthorn-esque plant that is even worse. Don`t want any of those in my Enduro tyres....again.
The world's Ambassador! Such a special young woman!
..."little offroading".....you are my hero Noraly !
I always wondered what Abba did after they retired from music.
I thought the same!
😅😅😅😅😅
My LOL moment for today - thanks!
Looks like Nevada desert and sage brush. “Lost my track. Oh well, make my own!”
The desolation is stark, but you just motor on like it was just another day at the office! Most people would turn around and head for home, but you just go on and on! Amazing and super entertaining, so much fun to watch! Reminds me of times when I had to stop in the middle of nowhere and fix my own bike. Those times are super intense it's kind of do or die, but you are still having fun in the process! There is nothing like a motorcycle ride in the bush! And we get to see how the other half lives.
Who needs Netflix when I can follow you on your journey
Am I the only one who likes it before watching the video?😂
Totally amazing again today. I have gotten to the point of anticipating where we get to go next! I really enjoy all the places you have taken us.
You are like a breath of fresh wind.
Thumbs up for ostriches running across the road. It felt like Jurassic Park 🤣😂
Ever fascinating, ever joyful!
Thanks for taking us along.
You need a Leatherman with pliers for those thorns :P
actually a very sharp knife works very well for removing them. You just need to place the knife like you are going to cut the thorn off flush with the tire but just put a little pressure on the knife blade and twist the thorn out. Do not push to hard or you will cut the thorn off flush and you will have to do surgery to remove the thorn. You just want to apply enough pressure to grip the thorn and then twist it up and out of your tire.
What? Someone like Freddie Mercury?
Those thorn/stickers look just like goatheads. They are the bane of bicycle riders in the american southwest, they are shed by a plant that is endemic there and spreading to other areas. One of them will puncture a tire and in the season I have found more than twenty in each tire. It’s enough to make you give up bicycle riding. The only solution will be solid tires that can’t puncture. I assumed the plant that produced them was native, but the southwest desert is full of invasive species and it looks like the goathead plant may come from Africa because those were goatheads or I’ve never seen them. It takes tweezers to pull out the broken ones, this really brings back memories.
As kids we use to walk bare feet in the feild and you step in those thorns called "duiweltjies" or "duweltjies" in afrikaans. It was pure hell! They also caused a lot of bicycle tyre punctures.
Himba country! Went for dinner there a long time ago. My wife asked if they had veggies. Yes they said: Chicken.
I really enjoyed your choice of music in this episode! Very calming, fits the mood and scene nicely! As always, the drone footage is spectacular! Ride safe Noraly!
Noraly, I particularly like your choice of music for this episode.
Thank you!
Me too suited the video perfectly
Yes, great choice of music! Brilliant…
Correct original use of "I've kind of lost track here". Noraly's narrative makes me smile.
Itchy - I love the music you chose. The music enhances the landscape!
Me too!
Thorny things are duwweltjies in afrikaans! 😊🇿🇦♥️
Dave Hodges of The Common Sense Show gave u a huge compliment!
That sounds much too nice for these stingy buzzers.
For me, probably the best episode of noraly to date. Thanks for existing and thanks for posting so many videos. Greetings from Spain.
Da entdeckt Noraly einen Elefanten-Friedhof und betätigt sich sogleich als Archäologin. Klasse! Aber kurz nachdem du sagtest, dass dir in Namibia keine Menschenseele in den Weiten der Steppe begegnet, filmst du prompt ein Dutzend Hirten. 👍😅 Dornen mit der Pinzette aus dem Reifen ziehen ist bestimmt keine schöne Arbeit, aber eben notwendig. 😉
Namibians can see the moon just as we do, and yet some think we're not all the same.
Just one bunch of people on this lonely ball in space, and we're fighting amongst ourselves - often because of 'religion' ! (Or silly superstition, as I call it). Good sentiment, Steven.
@@parthasur6018 Collective for grapes or flowers :)
@@thetessellater9163 This topic is decidedly not one for Itchy Boots' entertaining channel, but I'll say that, like so many others, I've come to see religion as the divide-and-conquer Machiavellian tool of the elite to protect their station from the consequences of the injustices they perpetrate against the rest.
You are very brave to travel alone in africa! I envy you! But your videos are extremely interesting and I always learn something new about your travels. Keep exploring! 🇬🇧
"I seem to have lost the track. Oh well, let's keep going into the desolate desert where there is no cell reception, no people and a mechanical breakdown might be fatal in the scorching sun!".
This is one tough lady in those itchy boots!
Those goats are descendants of the ones who discover the coffee bean’s properties thousand years back in Abisinia , namibia etc.
Noraly venturing on tracks last used by the pioneer column in the late 1800"s!!!!! Such bravery!!!!
Thx Derek. U can think it, Just don't say it. "Venturing on tracks ....use by the Pioneers"... I stay here and I don't want my house to be like Natal/ Johannesburg, just last week! And Ja. Each town until 1990 had a SADF Army camp with very effective personell. And especially in the North....
25mins well spent! You just keep getting better Noraly! We'll be at 1M subs by September. Everyone needs to join Noraly's Tribe ASAP ❤
I chuckled when you imitating elephant tracks in the dirt.
It just gets better and better. Loving the isolation. Namibia looks like it’s the place for me, wide open spaces, interesting animals no people and a new hobby of tyre thorn picking. I never realised just how un populated some parts of the world are. Great vid again looking forward to the next Thank you.😃
U r very brave , I guess u have no any kind of fear, all almighty lord’s blessings is with u 🙏
yeah..she more brave than Kim jong un
Look an elephant puzzle...I know I can put him back together but will he fit on my bike? Great video, as always Noraly! What a place to explore...thorns and all. Let’s go!🏍🇺🇸
"Ok, let's leave the elephants in peace..." Perfect. Always something utterly new when riding with Noraly...
You are a brilliant geologist so don't be hard on yourself for not knowing how an elephant's jaw fits together 😁. Great vlog.
Yes, ‘goat heads’ in Arizona. Caused me a puncture the first time I rode in the open desert. Not fun. Also very bad for my poor doggo’s paws. Make sure you don’t track them in on your boots, they’re murder on bare feet. Safe travel!
To this day when I see devil thorns I still wince.
Thanks Itchy Boots 🥾 seeing animals like the Ostrich in its natural habitat is amazing and the adventures look amazing. Safe Riding ✊🏻🏍
At the start of the episode we have the same stickers in Arizona. We call them goat heads. When you are a kid walking around bare foot, they hurt.
I have puncture vine on my property. It's not possible to walk barefoot in my yard, or ride a bicycle. The thorns get stuck in the soles of my boots and I end up tracking some in the house, which I occasionally step on with my bare feet.
22:19 - nostalgic memory for me to see a Herero woman .... and the devil thorns!
Mamma Mia what a guest house!
You’re so Cute 🥰
Trying to reconstruct ELPHIE ! 😂😂
On a Sunday morning I had visited Rob Millard in the Etosha Game Reserve to repair a water pump when I was called on the Radio, A young boy , 11 years old, had picked up a detonator, not knowing what it is, put it in his mouth and connect the two electric wires on a PM 9 battery. His mouth, chin and chest was seriously injured, so I rushed to Opuwo Hospital to save his life. The Ruacana Falls on the Angola Border is beautiful but a lot of steps down and up to climb, but worthwhile.
Ouch . I hope he heals well .
Those "thorns" look to be the same things we have here on the coast of North Carolina. We call them "sand spurs". Hell on us that like to walk around wearing flip-flops!
In southern Florida we also call them Sand Spurs....
We call them devils thorns. Most of us like to walk barefeet and you say many naughty things if you step into them.
They were somehow brought to other parts of the world from Africa.
Devils claws we called them in Rhodesia.
Good elephant tracking . All that unauthorized surgery of the thorns .
Those thorns are called devils thorns in Namibia and SA. There is no need to pull them out. They will wear off quicker than the actual tire rubber.
EVERY DAY AN ADVENTURE! GREETINGS FROM THE UK! EXILED SOUTH AFRICAN 🇿🇦🇬🇧🇿🇦🇬🇧 NEDERLANDER! WAAR GAAT JY??😳😁
We have those things here in West Texas too. We call them "goat heads." Not good for bare feet or bicycle tires, not as bad for dirt bike tires probably.
Goat heads must be a universal name for these nasties. They were hard on my barefoot childhood in Calif.
Thx. So U also have the bastard too. Roadbikes have a problem with the Bastards too. "Goat Heads" & "Duwweltjies" ....mmm.
We have them here in NM. They'll pierce through flip flops and stab you in the foot. Nasty little buggers.
Someone accidentally brought them to the US from Africa. Curse on man-kind
Elephant tracks! Ostriches, and Dutch! (Zendmast!) You are a marvel and share marvels with all of us. Door jou doe ik elke dag een Nederlandse les
PrimA!
We call them goatheads though my father called them puncture vines. The Greek sheepherders brought them here, now they are everywhere.
Blijft geweldig hoe je de gehele aarde aan het ontdekken bent. Wij genieten vanuit Nederland met je mee;) Keep safe en houdt de onderkant naar beneden!
we call those goat heads here in New Mexico USA. Bad memories and many flat tires.
We have those same goat head thorns in Texas as well. Always hated those things!
The nature is soo amazing 😁😁😁
I'm so happy you have thick off-road tires, Noraly. They really saved you from the thorns. A great episode. Many thanks.
i rode with a mountain bike group in Kuwait's deserts for 25 years. We had the same thorns there. We insisted that newcomers fitted anti-puncture stripes between their inner tubes and tyres and filled the tubes with slime sealant. We usually had to help the newcomers do that. You would literally pick up hundreds of thorns but the tyre kept enough air pressure to keep going. Some newcomers were obstinate and didn't take the puncture strip and slime advice and there would be harsh words said as the group waited in up to 50 degree C heat while we loaned them our spare inner tubes and changed the tubes for them. Every year or less the inner tubes would finally give out and be thrown away and you could see the beads of dried slime where the thorns had penetrated. I always carried 2 spare pre-slimed inner tubes but never used them myself, just loaned them to others during rides.
Yes, exactly! I have made the same recommendation for tyre sealant. We actually used it on our old VW bus when we did Namibia. Never had a single flat tyre... But got stuck in sand plenty! And got ourselves into a bit of a spot after a guinea fowl flew across the road and made a rather large dent just below the windscreen... 4 days later we did some hasty panel beating when we were caught in flood rains in the middle of nowhere and the wiper actuator got stuck on the dent. 🤣
...such good memories. 😬
John, you have a rich experience bro. Great story there, you're a legend
"@John Lewinton
I rode with a mountain bike group in Kuwait's deserts for 25 years."
Nice to see you made it out ;)
Dunno what I did wrong, but to one of my mountain bikes I fitted new tyres with slime tubes and they`re both flat and I`ve not even ridden it yet. Yes I did inflate them. And yet I got a puncture while in Haarlem on my Guzzi in `81 and bunged a load of slime in and it worked well until I fixed it properly.
I wish I could go on a 25year bike ride. 😂😂 I spent time in Kuwait in the Army. The desert is both beautiful and harsh. Sand/dust storms were some of the worst I’ve experienced and yet the sunsets were some of the most spectacular I’ve ever seen.
Nice one Noraly...... those devil thorns we called dubbeltjies hahaha 😂
I bet you were busy.... have a safe ride
God bless Japanese engineering. Think about what the 250 has done so far. Hats off to you Mr. Honda! And of course our intrepid travel guide Noraly.
You need to pick up a small pair of needle nose plyers next town you go through. Preferably, some that are spring loaded so they expand out when you loosen your grip. They will make pulling burrs out of your tires a lot easier.