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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Heat is the least of our problems

Finally crossed out of Ethiopia into Kenya. Its going to be hard to describe the emotions I have gone through in the last few weeks and even harder to put into words the sights sounds and terrain that has been covered.
As for my list of new experiences here are a few:

Riding 148kms and there not being a gap in the people on the road enough to answer a call of nature.
Eating a sandwhich when you have just watched a cockroach crawl out of it.
Watching a Dik Dik get killed skinned and butchered.
Watching a baboon fall 30ft from a tree and only get saved by a luckily placed tent.
Seeing a flock of ostrich, herds of gazelle, and hundreds of baboons in the wild.
Doing so in stupid temperatures riding over some of the worst roads imaginable.
Hiding under a tarp to avoid the sun when a whirlwind goes dierectly overhead and pulls it in the air bringing down a boulder the size of a computer monitor into the guy next to me...a foot from my head.(cracked ribs we think)
Jumping into the back of a game warden truck and going on patrol for poachers.

I thik there is too much to cover in a short update so im going to try and write a decent one and post it next week, we are in a lush area right now just on a volcanic rim but head straight back into the desert for the next 3 days, then we are promised we should get some running water and decent services. (internet is still shady at best).

Hope all is well back home with everyone, would love to watch alfie chase baboons, that dog would be hilarius out here.

4 Comments:

  • Who's Alfie? Only one I can think of looking silly chasing baboons is Fred!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:02 p.m., February 28, 2009  

  • Hi Mark

    Enjoying reading the blog. Sounds like a proper adventure!

    Keep it up!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:56 a.m., March 04, 2009  

  • Hi Mark

    Enjoying reading the blog. Sounds like a proper adventure!

    Keep it up!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:57 a.m., March 04, 2009  

  • Markus my man,
    sounds like you are up to your ars in some thick shite. I'm pretty sure Alfie would be under the support truck cowering. If I recall he was afraid of the tailgate on the old 4 runner. I'm going to start training for the Cheku Challenge as soon as it stops freakin' snowing here in Vancouver. Keep up the blog, I am severely jealous of your tour.
    Cheers Dezzy

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:34 p.m., March 09, 2009  

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