Epic Thread!!
 

This is one of the most epic threads I have ever read on an internet forum:

Borneo Equator Expedition - Jungle , Swamps and Heatstroke - ADVrider

A bunch of guys riding motorcycles and driving 4 wheel drives through equatorial Borneo...

Very cool.

I am just scrolling through the pics. Did they get any weird bugs, or catch anything?

i'm only on page 4 and it is truely epic......thanks for posting :D

my g/f just flew to Borneo for a family funeral. She didn't take the same trail :D

Awesome stuff. Better them than me...

yea i just spent almost 2 hours going through that thread....absolutely stellar.....

Those guys are certifiably insane...

This kinda thing is why life is worth living.

Rekindles my dream to backpack Guam & the Philippines.

You know its a bad idea to hike alone right....


So I'll volunteer....

It rekindles my dream to drive the Darien Gap in Panama. In a VW Syncro Westfalia. That would be cool.

My drive to St. Charles Il on Friday will be enough of an adventure for me. 750 miles of interstate in an air condiitioned car. The jungle adventure looks amazing. I will book-mark it and read it as I have time.

No kidding...back in the '80's, on my fourth or fifth stay in the Philippines, two other pilots from my detachment and me decided to take a course in jungle survival for three days. We were in port for a week so we could bookend other more leisurely pursuits to ease our pain.

The course, run by the military, was called JEST (I think)...not sure what it stands for.

Here is what I learned: The jungle is where all manner of evil creatures big and small set up shop. They are often deadly, and extract the life from their victims in ways that would make J. Mengele blush.

When not deadly, our jungle friends are often parasitic and take great advantage of the hotel services resident in humans...we are the Beverley Wilshire of hosts. They often depart without leaving a tip, preferring instead to leave behind all sorts of viral strains undetectable to modern science until your donk falls off.

You can wear jungle air, you just can't breath it.

I sweat like Joe Biden on Jeopardy every second of every day I spent there.

There is tons of food in the Jungle, none that can be found at Best Foods.

Great experience, though. The Native instructors seemed amused.

Hi Paul. SmileWavy
Not quite as bad as the memorable forests, bugs and critters of southern Maryland I guess!

Old friend of mine flew a bush plane in that area. He had some very interesting stories to tell...

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My experience was very different but not dissimilar.

Four couples, best friends, set off on a two week trip into the heart of Borneo. Up the Skrang River on two Dayak longboats—starting from Kuching. Our Dayak guides had wooden pegs stuck through their dicks, and yard long machetes. The jungle was insane. The things we did were insane. The Dayaks were insane. Two people from our group had complete nervous breakdowns. Three got extremely ill. The whole thing was a combination of Lord of the Flies and The Heart of Darkness. None of the people on that trip will speak to one another today (20 years later.)

Complete freak show. I'll remember every second as long as I live.

So THATS what happened to you! We were wondering! :)

ADVrider.com has these kinds of threads on an almost daily basis. I was just reading one the other night about three guys riding dirt bikes from Guangzhou to Chengdu the long and hard way around. The photos and stories are unreal. Another one was by a guy who rode from Pakistan through Iran and Turkey up to Germany. I've been in some of the more local ride reports there, but nothing that crazy. That is an amazing website.

We didn't keep up boys! Get to reading!