How Long?

Really? That's a good thought for me to keep in mind too, Africa, that is.

Your med trips sounds excellent. I guess it is so large that a few legs would be required (or a great deal of money). If i ever do it, i would like to go: paris, france, spain, gibralter, morocco, algeria, tunisia, libya (order), Egypt, Jordan (skip Israel-done that), lebanon(if possible) syria, turkey, greece, (skip albania), macedonia, dalmation coast, italy, sicily if possible, france and up along the altantic coast back to paris. But that's all light years away sigh

Algeria is pretty much out-of-bounds, and Libya is difficult. At the moment riding around the Mediterranean is not really feasible. I'm not sure how long it will be until Algeria settles down, but it won't be soon.