I'm in, my twins' birthday August 30th
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Eastern Africa is a long time away for me - well over a year. I see no point in planning to the nth degree now for something that is well over a year away when things in Africa change so radidly.
When I'm closer, I'll talk to people who are on the road, I'll read up, and I'll make an informed decision with up to dateinformation. I won't stick steadfastly to a decision made a year earlier with what would then be outdated information.
I know you think it's nuts, but I'm following a few people right now now who are driving/riding through Sudan up into Egypt. Nobody has had a problem. I'm not saying I'll go, I'm just saying it's being done right now. Today. It's not certain death like people would have you believe.
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It's not certain death like people would have you believe.
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I just watched the first four episodes of the long way round the other night. If you're following this thread and haven't seen it, I suggest doing so. Those guys put a ton of work and resources into planning their journey and they had a support crew. It doesn't appear that this guy has anything like that and is going through much more dangerous territory.
quote:He's going South first.
So if he isn't planning on heading east for a year then this has gone from a 2 year journey to a 10 year journey at least. This completely throws off the death pool. We need to revise the whole process because the chances of homeboy getting smoked in Morocco are slim
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It's on Netflix for free, but you have to search for it.
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Frotm the reddit thread. And, btw, I have no idea how the F reddit works.quote:
I'm not saying I'll go, I'm just saying it's being done right now. Today. It's not certain death like people would have you believe.
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I just watched the first four episodes of the long way round the other night. If you're following this thread and haven't seen it, I suggest doing so. Those guys put a ton of work and resources into planning their journey and they had a support crew. It doesn't appear that this guy has anything like that and is going through much more dangerous territory.
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I'm following a few people right now now who are driving/riding through Sudan up into Egypt. Nobody has had a problem.
quote:That's a great book, read it before my first trip to Congo. Please read King Leopold's Ghost, even better. When Congo became independent in1960, there were only a handful of Congolese with a college education, because of their treatment by the Belgians. The British colonies, like Zambia where I am, were much better prepared to goven themselves.
Well the South Sudan could reignite at any moment. Most of the NGO's were bugging out yesterday. Ceasefire tenuously in place today.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36772762
And for those that enjoyed the Congo thread:
Currently reading Tim Butcher's Blood River. Butcher is a war correspondent with lots of experience in crazy places. The book is about his similar trek to the Belgian duo in about 2004 - except he traveled alone and on motorbike and down the Congo Rive along Stanley's route. It explains even more how time and level of technology in the DRC is traveling backward.
Excepts of Blood River on Google books.
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My money is on him proceeding at a snail's pace and we all lose interest
quote:Seeing activity in the thread, only to read another complaint about "is he dead yet" post, is kinda anticlimatic.quote:
My money is on him proceeding at a snail's pace and we all lose interest
Yeah... Seeing activity in the thread, only to read another "is he dead yet", is kinda anticlimactic.