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Matembezi Angavu: Ol Doinyo Lengai
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Across Africa by Bicycle. Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Posted from Arusha, Tanzania. A young Maasai walked up and shared our little shade, just staring at us. The wind persisted and so did she; the mountain and the Maasai watched over us until we had rested and gone. It is an almost perfect circle, hundreds of feet deep. Would it be irreverant to climb down, I wondered? I didn't have the time anyway. MinWah was waiting with the bikes, and we had to find our turnoff and a place to camp. The fear grabs you a...
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Matembezi Angavu
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Across Africa by Bicycle. Thursday, March 5, 2009. Posted from Lusaka, Zambia. As is often our habit, the five of us cycled into town - Livingstone, Zambia, in this case - unsure where we would stay. Orian's. Trip to Boston necessitated a stopover of nine days and we unanimously sought a place where we could settle down and not worry about packing up every morning. A sign indicated Fawlty. Gustave was hanging around the Bureau de. Change soaking up the aircon. Entered. Don't change your money here, G...
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Matembezi Angavu: December 2009
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Across Africa by Bicycle. Tuesday, December 22, 2009. Photos, After the Fact. MinWah has posted some of our pictures. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Recyclery, Portland OR. Photos, After the Fact.
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Matembezi Angavu: Do you speak English?
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Across Africa by Bicycle. Monday, August 3, 2009. Do you speak English? Posted from Zagazig, Egypt. We pedal a long Thursday into Addis Ababa. The Egyptian Embassy is only open until noon on Friday and we don't want to wait out the weekend to submit our visa application, so we try get close enough to Addis but stop far enough out that we can still find a place to camp. Can I help you? We go another hundred meters or so and see an industrial compound of some sort. It's dark so it's hard to tell what e...
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Matembezi Angavu: April 2009
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Across Africa by Bicycle. Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Posted from Arusha, Tanzania. A young Maasai walked up and shared our little shade, just staring at us. The wind persisted and so did she; the mountain and the Maasai watched over us until we had rested and gone. It is an almost perfect circle, hundreds of feet deep. Would it be irreverant to climb down, I wondered? I didn't have the time anyway. MinWah was waiting with the bikes, and we had to find our turnoff and a place to camp. The fear grabs you a...
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Matembezi Angavu: December 2008
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Across Africa by Bicycle. Tuesday, December 30, 2008. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Recyclery, Portland OR.
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Matembezi Angavu: February 2009
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Across Africa by Bicycle. Thursday, February 26, 2009. Posted from Kasane, Botswana. Take a gun. The Massai warriors can kill a lion with just a spear. But not you. Build circles of fire all around you. Pour one liter of diesel fuel in a circle around your camp to keep the snakes and scorpions away. But most of all, just build a fire. We stopped for lunch under a shade tree, and Orian professed an appreciation for this road that we were all feeling. I'd recommend this route to any cycle tourist," he said.
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Matembezi Angavu: January 2009
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Across Africa by Bicycle. Sunday, January 25, 2009. Posted from Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. When Andras Kiss popped up next to us at the tourism information center in Riversdale, none of us could have guessed the adventures we would experience as a result. We have plans for you," he said. We were told to go to the Knysna Elephant Park, just off the highway before we reached Plettenberg Bay, where we were greeted by Greg Vogt. Are you here to book in? Quinn, not quite expecting this, stammered a bit.
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Matembezi Angavu: The Worst Road in Africa/A Song in the Wilderness
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Across Africa by Bicycle. Thursday, June 18, 2009. The Worst Road in Africa/A Song in the Wilderness. Posted from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (more or less). Legend has it that Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya, used to use the Great East-African Highway to visit Halie Selassie I, the emperor of Ethiopia. The two agreed, each would pave the portion of the highway that lay within his border. Selassie (also known as Ras. Kilometers of wilderness that MinWah and I alone decided to traverse. In Isiolo ou...
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Matembezi Angavu: June 2009
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Across Africa by Bicycle. Thursday, June 18, 2009. The Worst Road in Africa/A Song in the Wilderness. Posted from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (more or less). Legend has it that Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya, used to use the Great East-African Highway to visit Halie Selassie I, the emperor of Ethiopia. The two agreed, each would pave the portion of the highway that lay within his border. Selassie (also known as Ras. Kilometers of wilderness that MinWah and I alone decided to traverse. In Isiolo ou...