New Years Eve, mostly spent hanging around the workshop. Dave went out to help organize a BBQ at Masai camp and invited Graham and I to go out there, well at least I thought I was invited. Of course as soon as I got there I was put to work, even though there were already five other crew there, who laughed at me when I asked if they needed any help. We have too many people already, one of them said. There was on other girl there on her own, an American girl...

Christmas Day in Arusha…..it may as well have been just another day apart from some tacky decorations that had been put up by one of the local staff. I sat around for the morning mindlessly watching the cricket on TV, until it was time to go and meet the passengers at Snake Park. I had convinced Dave to do Christmas dinner there to avoid a repeat of the noise at Masai camp. The owners also cook Christmas dinner free of charge, so nothing really for me to d...

This morning I got up early and Dave took me down to meet the shuttle at the Impala hotel in town. I bordered the shuttle and off I went to Nairobbery. The shuttle took about an hour to get to the Namanga border, which compared to the Beitbridge border bulls***, was beyond efficient. The guy on the Kenyan side even said to me, Your passport is filling fast, I will only put a stamp for you. (instead of the full page sticker) Thank you, much appreciated, I said...

I awoke this morning feeling refreshed and able to face the world of over landing again. I got up, packed up my tent and went and sat in the bar to wait for Dixon, who had paid for a cheap hotel room. We headed off for our destination, home: Arusha. At 1pm I had Dixon pull over so I could do my skype call to Med Experience with the African 3G. It went for over an hour so I'd say it went pretty well. We then continued on to Arusha, stopping yet again for be...

I woke up this morning in the heat, unsure if I had actually woken up or just regained consciousness after the night from hell. The too loud TV from last night was still blaring and mosquitos were still assailing me in the back of the truck. I got up and dressed and climbed out of the truck to wait for Dixon. I sat in the street in a plastic chair with a coke and people watched for an hour before Dixon emerged from his room and we jumped on the truck and hea...