... for anyone traveling through Africa!
It's always amusing to get updates from our friends making their way through this amazing continent. The following is the most recent update from Mike...
elephant in zambia started attacking my aeroplane. had to shout, throw twigs and generally make it fucking angry until it charged me and forgot about the flying contivance. got a tree between the great vandal and me which irritated it even more because my sprightliness foiled its plan to squash me. took the plane up a couple of days later and did lots of low level flying. near elephants. i caused one to scarper across a river and attempt to scale a vertical 30 foot cliff face. stupid cunt. finally got to malawi, having unwittingly changed 150 perfectly good dollars for forged malawian banknotes and even then at a shit rate. then was stopped at a police check point 10 miles later and fined 75 quid for not having insurance. had to sing them a song accompanying myself on a guitar (what i bought) to get out of it. offloaded most of the duff notes on fuel and had a wank. so as you can see, not much has changed. apart from my roofrack is collapsing, someone nicked my altimeter, the trailer tailboard fell off. the plane fell off the trailer (at speed), someone nicked my video camera in Livingstone, almost crashed the plane in the bush because i ran out of fuel on tank number 1, someone nicked an airbed, mosquito net and the aeroplane luggage bags from the roofrack, and the land rover now sticks because a border guard made me give a 4 hour lift to a fish trader and his 400-strong haul of dried comestibles. Oh, and the bailiffs now want a grand, the tax man wants six and i've only got one and a bit which will buy me fuel as far as Zanzibar. i may be home sooner than i thought, homeless, penniless and spent. but fuck it, it's a big adventure, right?