I'm not sure why so many people seem convinced that if you go touring everything is going to spontaneously explode as soon as you get somewhere remote. :]
...which reminds me of running into a group of people on a 2 week tour of West Africa (they were in Tiwai Forest, Sierra Leone when I met them)... and they were all on Bromptons!!! Apparently to save the $400 it would have cost to fly with a normal size bike... Tour of the rainforest = sane / Tour of the rainforest on Brompton = questionable...
...which reminds me of running into a group of people on a 2 week tour of West Africa (they were in Tiwai Forest, Sierra Leone when I met them)... and they were all on Bromptons!!! Apparently to save the $400 it would have cost to fly with a normal size bike... Tour of the rainforest = sane / Tour of the rainforest on Brompton = questionable...