Africa Scooter Adventure
Imagine a two-wheel motor holiday which caters to you. A summer camp with alcohol. A culinary adventure into creative cuisine. Brewed tea, regional coffee and local beer. Our group of 10 riders went to bed at night delightfully exhausted after each adventurous day left us dusty with dirt and sweat, and rarely a hot shower. Phil Paoletta and Matt Christie began running scooter tours through West Africa in 2017. They are the ultimate rough riders who laid out the red carpet for us. Phil is focused, an easy-going native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a middle school teacher in Washington D.C. Matt’s hails from Queensland, Australia, and has spent a number of years in the tourism industry. Together they own a hotel called ‘The Sleeping Camel’ in Bamako, Mali.
Phil and Matt are enthusiastic hosts with a natural connection to nature. They know the players as they negotiate the political and military systems throughout the three West African nations we toured. To keep our scooters running they deployed their mechanic, Boubacar Tessogue,
