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Bullet-Proof
Today we rode 801kms from Senga Bay in Malawi to Lusaka
in Zambia. Temperatures about 30 degrees, some rain and
we are now 15 degrees south of the equator.
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Tarred roads all day but you have to watch out for the pot-holes.
There are as many as there are children in Africa and that is a lot.
Today Stefan seemed to have a had a bad incident with one of our cars,
but everything was OK and nothing happened. But you have to watch
out and not go too fast on these roads that are full of people, animals
and other strange creatures.
I don’t think there is one butcher shop in Europe that can guarantee
as fresh meat as those in Africa. Just smell it – if it hangs
out for more than two days it is sour. Talk about fresh! And the price
is not influenced by the part of the animal it comes from. Strange
system, when you think of it.
The rivers tell us it is the rain season. This is the river Luangwa
that runs to the Zambwezi.
At the border between Ethiopia and Kenya a soldier asked if my Ufo
chest armour was bullet-proof. His gun was a military thing, fully
automatic. I tried a joke and said “Of course and if I tense
my muscles it will stand a rocket in 100 metres". It felt good
to have had that conversation two countries ago, when we met this
little gang on the border bridge between Zambia and Moçambique.
I didn’t even mention my bullet-proof vest.
The standings in our competition on burned intros has changed since
the visit to a restaurant where the medical inspectors haven’t
been since Moses ran around in the Sinai desert. Total standings:
Mikko 2
Ian 1
PG 1
Stefan 1.
It was along day, from dawn to darkness.
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High
Performance Riding
www.pgdakar.com |
Per-Gunnar
Lundmark
Fjällbonäs 15
933 91 Arvidsjaur |
Per-Gunnar
Lundmark
Eva.PG.Lundmark@swipnet.se
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Updated
2006-02-03
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