ursusguy said:

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So?

*Malaria is a bigger deal (since apparently it is overhyped and not a big deal).
*Embarassed and trying to get visas
*Sitting in a African jail after annoying the crap out of officials (ie refused to pay)
*Suddenly had a "family emergency"
*Dead

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ursusguy said:

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So?

*Malaria is a bigger deal (since apparently it is overhyped and not a big deal).
*Embarassed and trying to get visas
*Sitting in a African jail after annoying the crap out of officials (ie refused to pay)
*Suddenly had a "family emergency"
*Dead

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khkman22 said:

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ursusguy said:

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So?

*Malaria is a bigger deal (since apparently it is overhyped and not a big deal).
*Embarassed and trying to get visas
*Sitting in a African jail after annoying the crap out of officials (ie refused to pay)
*Suddenly had a "family emergency"
*Dead

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With the delay in his postings, I decided to check Emily's website. She said he was embarrassed and trying to get visas the first couple of days. When he determined he wouldn't be able to get one, or have to wait a while to get one, he decided to continue past the checkpoint, telling them he had a family emergency as he rolled through. He made it, but got stuck in a mud puddle and burned up his gas trying to floor it to get out. Since he refused to buy any of the liter bottles from the "side of the road" vendors, he had no options. Once they caught up to him, they threw him in jail. He just died two days ago, and due to his auto delayed posting to hide his whereabouts, it was determined he was actually thrown jail about a month ago, where he contracted malaria shortly thereafter, leading to his death.

Who had February 25?

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Other overlanders. So far on the trip, we have met several others doing our trip, Morocco to Cape Town, most in camperized SUVs. Their main challenge was also visas. Some of them were a Swedish couple with two kids, a German couple in a huge overland vehicle, a Swiss couple, the 5 motorcyclists from Holland, the American couple on motorcycles driven from Alaska, a Hungarian couple (needed a Namibian visa obtained in the home country even though their was no embassy there), a South African/British couple, the hot-air balloonists form England, and at Six Mile an Australian (still with no Angola visa) and a German couple traveling together in separate vehicles.
The Australian, Dan Grec was a very interesting fellow. Driving a Jeep Wrangler converted for camping with a pop-up roof, it had Yukon license plates. He had worked in Whitehorse for 6 years, traveled through the states (attended a Jeep jamboree in Moab) and shipped his vehicle to Belgium from Halifax, Nova Scotia. It had taken him 7 months to get to where we were in 3 months and he was continuing to Cairo after Cape Town. He blogs on theroadchoseme.com, wikioverland.org (a site he created) and jeepforum.com and is writing for 4 magazines and trying to sell photographs. His sites are monetized and he is almost paying for his trip with income from them. His email address is dan@theroadchoseme.com
He initially started his travels in 2009 when he drove his Jeep form Alaska to Argentina. His mission could be summarized by some of the statements on a brochure he gave me: "Inspiring others to explore their dreams", "to prove to myself that a life of exploration, self-reliance and life-long learning is achievable on the road", "to give others the tools to break from normality and start living their dreams" and "wrong turns are opportunities to make new friends". After Africa, his plans are to do the Silk Road and continue to Beijing and Russia. He hopes Jeep will give him a new Wrangler to continue his journey.

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It had taken him 7 months to get to where we were in 3 months

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El Hombre Mas Guapo said:

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Holy isht. Just read all 76 pages, not skipping ahead because I just knew there had to be a conclusion by page 76...

Very anticlimactic. But if we were to take a dozen teenage Eagle Scouts to Africa, they wouldn't have forgotten long sleeves or Deet spray....

It iS what It IS

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On a trip like mine through Africa, Malaria presents a problem. Conventional wisdom says to take an "anti-malarial" pill in the hopes of preventing infection, though for a number of reasons that's not really practical. All anti-malarial tables come with an increased sensitivity to the sun (they advise staying out of the sun. I can tell you that's very difficult in Africa), and they are hard on your liver in the long-term. All the advice is not to use them for too long, though nobody can quite say how long is too long.

I think two years is long.

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Malarone does not have that side effect.

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One of the other major options comes with side effects, usually related to severe, severe demented dreams and interrupted sleep.

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Malarone does not have this side effect.

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These aren't real side effects? If not, my Corpsman lied to me.

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