Day 272: A Breath of Fresh Air

Arrrrrrgh! ANOTHER get-up-at-5am-bus-leaves-at-11am day. I tell you, good information is priceless. Cliff and I wound up hanging about for hours before we actually left, but

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Day 274: Cool Run-Ins

So… into the tenth month on the road and I finally, finally reach South Africa, what had, in my original estimation, been the half-way point

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Day 278: Sunrise

Crikey, I could have done without this early start, but it’s all power for the cause. Today in a move guaranteed to get me another

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Day 281: Hey Ya!

Staggeringly early bus to Swaziland, but I needn’t have bothered. Let me explain; I rose at the butt-crack to get my ultra-early bus across the

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Day 287: The Slog

The big event of today was crossing the border into Tanzania, which is a little like Tasmania but with different letters. Nation 121. I’ve got

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Day 303: Et Voila!

The Trochetia is great. It makes me sick every time that I think of the Shissiwani II costing me a comparable sum of money for

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