Hey,
Great to get the update. Wasn't but a day ago you came across my mind with small bit of wonder..... where could they be? Spain, of course!
Tahvi and Kunene send their greetings, Ann as well. Keep the amusing blogs coming.
Tim
Ralph & Angela
Hi Jola, Brad & Atlin
Good to hear from you. Africa was safe compared to home, they've changed all the one way roads to two way, nearly taken out by a bus yesterday!
Will hopefully get to Poland and will certainly have a few beers and pastries for you.
Take care
Ralph & Angela
Jolanta
Hi Guys,
Glad you got out of Africa alive, again. Have a great time in Europe and eat some pastries and drink some beer in Poland for me. Take care,
Jola, Brad, Atlin
Beth & Perry
Greetings, Wanderers ~
Love the new photos. Oh, life is good. But disappointing, the news that you are leaving. We seem to have hit a syncopated travel rhythm. I imagine you have a bad case of numb-butt and skin dessication. I anticipate the same for us!
We store the Landy at Stor-Age in West Rand. They have a website: http://www.stor-age.co.za They take good care of our LR.
Cheers to you ~ Beth & Perry
Ralph
Hi Beth & Perry
Good to hear from you.
Thoughts of our demise are slightly premature, plenty of sand but no communications.
Looks like we are going to miss each other, we've decided to head back home in May to have a break from Africa. Bad timing, would have loved to have joined you on some of that trip but after 25,000 kilometres around Zambia, Malawi, Zim, the Kalahari and Namibia on the last trip we reckon we need a change of scenery.
Let us know your plans, where do you keep the Landy in Joburg by the way?
Ralph
Beth & Perry
Hello Kalahari wanderers!
After months of no news, we were beginning to think we might find your emaciated remains partially buried by Kalahari sands... Glad to hear you haven't dried up nor gone completely feral.
We have moved up our SA arrival date. Barring radical Land Rover difficulties, we should be heading out of the Jo'berg area in early June. Our itinerary is still rather vague, but we intend to wind our way up into East Africa..... and possibly back to Cape Town before Christmas. Yes. That is vague.
I hope we can intersect, drink wine and tell big stories.
Stay in touch ~ Beth (& Perry)
Ralph
Hi Arjan & Patricia
Got your Buenos Aires update then all went quiet, assumed you were either being held ransom by Maoist penguins in South Georgia or your icebreaker had hit too big a chunk of ice and sunk.
Look forward to the Antarctica report, that's one place we'd love to go but sadly out of our price range at the moment.
Thanks re the Man U game, will have to look up Roger Waters...is he famous?
Ralph
Ralph
Hi Carol
Decided to spend New Year in Libya and the Yemen! No, we were in the Kalahari (next blog coming soon) from Jan to March with no internet or phone coverage....bliss!!!!
We got back in to civilisation, well Windhoek, Namibia, and found half the Arab world at war, was it something we said?
Hope all well in Blighty apart from the job cuts, the VAT increase, the fuel prices, the various wars we are fighting, the weather, the economy.....
Ralph
Arjan & Patricia
Hi guys,
Missed your blog...... I am going to read it tonight, have to work. Also I am going to sent you a report/blog of our second Antarctica trip. It was awsome!
Very nice to hear from you.....
So, this friday to Roger Waters 'The Wall' concert in HOLLAND...... the normal life...... Good luck / enjoy tonight with the Man United match....
Love, Arjan & Patricia
Carol
Blimey, where have you been all this time? I thought something had happened to you. Missed your blogs!
Ralph & Angela
Dear Goatkiller
Best to give yourself up now. I spoke to Banda (he's a personal friend after he realised that our Landrover fuel bill represented 25% of Zambia's foreign currency earnings for November) and did some plea bargaining.
Apparently there is some very nice accomodation in a copper mine in Northern Zambia near the DRC border. He promised you'd be released in 45 years or buried in a proper coffin if sooner.
You will have to share your accomodation with the rest of the deceased goat's herd, and some other male prisoners with something called HIV/aids which they are willing to share with you.
I think I may have mentioned the location of your safehouse, it slipped in to the conversation with Banda somehow...sorry
The Goatkiller
Hi,
Just received a phonecall from Zambia...... could not really get the name of the caller, but after some time like the president of Zambia, mr. Rupiah Banda. Sounded very angry. Wanted to know If I wanted to have an extended holiday in a very nice accomodation. I could even stay for a few months, meals included, also could work as a volunteer, mining or something, all aid for by the government........ sounded great! I am thinking about it...
