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May 20, 2002

On The Road To Zambia

May 20, 2002 Up 5 am and out 6:30. Most of the day is spent traveling to Zambia. A bridge is out on the road south so we have...

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May 19, 2002

Time, Walking, Women

Time, Walking, Women, Waiting, Matatus and Plastic In Africa these things work together in a synchronous whole. Rattle-trap matatus-minibuses that serve as public transportation-all seats and the space in between...

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Malawi Village Walk

Sun May 19th 2002 Village Walk Africa does not really exist. Africa is a geographical name for a continent. Africa is made up of countries but people, especially in...

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May 18, 2002

Dinner & Dancing On A Mat

That night Rod has arranged for us to have dinner at the home of a local family. We each take a bowl and spoon from the truck and are...

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Cross Dressing At Kande Camp

Sat 18th 2002 Town of Mzuza We get off the bus and go to the market in Mzuza to buy clothes for the Cross Dressing Party at Kande Camp-we...

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May 17, 2002

Chitimba Beach Camp

When we pull into the camp compound there are three trucks aready there-drifters.com, ontheaway.com, and Africa.overland.com written in huge letters across the sides.The camp bars in Africa are open-air...

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Slave Trade At Malawi Lake

We are headed to Malawi Lake which is huge-of Malawi’s 118,000 sq km 20% is taken up by the long narrow lake which nearly runs approximately 500km down the...

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Muzungu At The Malawi Border

We stop at a small town for supplies and “toilet stop” near the Malawi border and to spend the rest of our Tanzania shillings...scores of young boys in dirty...

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May 06, 2002

Nairobi to Capetown Overland

May 5, 2002 We left for the 4000 mile seven week trip in a Mercedes Benz truck overland from Nairobi to Capetown. As Bob suspected there would be, there...

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