On 4 March 2001 Sjaak started the next adventure from the bike fair in Utrecht.

A fixed travel schedule did not exist but there was an overall plan. First from Europe to Africa, where crossing the Sahara was high on his wish list.

 After that he would do everything in his power to ride down via west Africa because the east he had already travelled. Every now and then zigzagging continent inward, visiting every country that had no serious internal conflicts, he would work himself down towards Gabon.

 Because of civil war and none existing roads, for years nobody succeeded to get from there to the south of the continent without shipping or flying. The solution on that issue would show itself the moment he would get closer to it, was his attitude.

He didn’t have any plans for that area, but he did so for the southern part of Africa where he wanted to make a round trip trough the whole tip.

After that done, the journey should go by boat or plane to South America where he wanted to travel all the countries on the mainland.