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This is all I have left of the stuff I wrote in Africa after a digital disaster destroyed my PDA when I got back to London. Pretty sad but them’s the breaks.

All in all I travelled from Nairobi to Cape Town in 77 day and experienced everything you could hope to experience. Highlights and memorable events included.

• Amazing wild life. We spent days and days slow driving our truck through game reserves seeing all maner of striped and spotted goats
• I read a book a week and when I ran out of my books that I took I read other peoples books that I would not normally have chosen and loved them all. Book of the tour was ‘Into Thin Air’ by Jon Krakauer an account of the 1996 season on Everest that left eight climbers dead. As tragic as it was hard to put down.
• ‘Someone’ bought half a supermarket bag full of weed for ten dollars in Kampala. Amazing value ;)
• Played hundreds of hands of 500. My best performance was going nearly 1000 under from too many stupid stoner mistakes (we were playing that you couldn’t go out the back door) with the oposition (if you could call them that) being 60 away from victory and coming back to win with the final hand being a high risk ten no trumps. I am unlikely to ever play that well again.
• On the houeboats on Lake Karibu our truck drank 1008 beers, two bottle of spirits each and smoked a whole cob of Malawi gold in THREE DAYS!!!
• One morning leaving camp the truck breaked heavilly and as I looked out the front window there was a half naked African guy with half his head removed lying on the road. The injury looked fresh and was probably caused by the last truck we passed heading in the other direction. The really wierd part was that his brain looked orange.
• Camping on Sessie Island in Lake Victoria. Stunning.
• Walking with Lions in Botswana
• Sand Boarding down massive sand dunes at 70kms in Swakopmund Namibia. A day after us a guy from another truck broke his collor bone doing the same thing.
• Hiking up massive dune 47 in Namibia
• Hiking into the inpenetrable forest in Uganda to sit within meters of the mighty silverback gorillas.
• Eating everything under the sun at a resort in Namibia
• Doing two bungi jumps off the bridge at Vic falls. Finding out that my legs have an unstoppable involuntary desire run back up onto the platform once I have jumped. Funny to watch.

Sorry for not writing earlier team. I wrote a big one a few days back but ran out of time when the truck parked up outside the Internet café and started honking.

In short all is good. Have arrived in Kenya and am touring around the countryside visiting villages and game parks. Have seen a huge number of animals in their natural habitat including hippos, crocodiles, pink flamingoes, water buffaloes, rhinos, baboons and assorted other lion food. No big carnivores yet though.

Most days here involve a drive and some sort of sight seeing. Then we park the truck and pitch tents and set about our various duties for dinner and the like. The next day we cook breakfast, break camp and get trucking for the day. Everyone is really pulling their weight and all is going smooth as.

The people here are really friendly as and broke as fuck. The other day I tried to haggle with a guy for a pair of sandals to get the same price as another guy on my truck and instead of coming back with a counter offer he just choked up the cash and looked heartbroken. We have visited a number of villages where the living conditions have been so bad even the chief sleeps on the mud floor of a stick hut (like the second little pig) in animal hides. Worse than that the poor bastard had three wives and 20 kids so he probably never got a moments peace. There doesn’t seem to be the pressure and scams that you get in a lot of other poor countries which is good but you just feel shit about the way these guys live so you end up giving them what you can anyway.

Other than that have enjoyed many local beers, which are all good and the tan is coming along nicely.

Sorry for not writing earlier team. I wrote a big one a few days back but ran out of time when the truck parked up outside the Internet café and started honking.

In short all is good. Have arrived in Kenya and am touring around the countryside visiting villages and game parks. Have seen a huge number of animals in their natural habitat including hippos, crocodiles, pink flamingoes, water buffaloes, rhinos, baboons and assorted other lion food. No big carnivores yet though.

Most days here involve a drive and some sort of sight seeing. Then we park the truck and pitch tents and set about our various duties for dinner and the like. The next day we cook breakfast, break camp and get trucking for the day. Everyone is really pulling their weight and all is going smooth as.

The people here are really friendly as and broke as fuck. The other day I tried to haggle with a guy for a pair of sandals to get the same price as another guy on my truck and instead of coming back with a counter offer he just choked up the cash and looked heartbroken. We have visited a number of villages where the living conditions have been so bad even the chief sleeps on the mud floor of a stick hut (like the second little pig) in animal hides. Worse than that the poor bastard had three wives and 20 kids so he probably never got a moments peace. There doesn’t seem to be the pressure and scams that you get in a lot of other poor countries which is good but you just feel shit about the way these guys live so you end up giving them what you can anyway.

Other than that have enjoyed many local beers, which are all good and the tan is coming along nicely.

Love to you all please circulate to everyone not on the list…

Hubs