On my way..

Our overland trip route through Africa

Typical me here. I didn't sleep for 2 days, I booked my insurance on the way and packed in just 30mins. I left Middlesbrough, ran after my train and flew from newcastle to Dubai. I hung out with a kiwi air-stewardess Tamila to kill the 8 hours I had to wait in dubai and on the flight to Nairobi I was sat next to a priest who just had tongue cancer and had a chunk of muscle cut from his arm to reconstruct his tongue! SO.. it didn't really hit me I was going to Africa, until I was in Africa! Awesome!

I arrived with no money and didn't know where to go but that's just me! When I got to camp I got myself a cider and got chatting to everyone including Matt! He's a cockney geezer and some legend! I also met Jenna, Charlie and Petra from Argentina. I could never remember her name so the whole trip I called her Miss Argentina! Later that night we met HENRY our truck driver from African Trails (the overland tour company) - this guy is a legend! His first words were - "where are my gorillas?", then he said Happy Days!

Henry called his truck a truck and if you called it anything else you had to do 10 pressups! His tshirt even said "its not a bus, its a truck". The truck was to be our home for the next 4 weeks and was the ugliest heap of metal but we all loved it and had some fun times in here!

our truck maria aka the f*ck truck

The first night I crashed with Miss Argentina who for some reason showed me her entire suitcase including UV protected shorts and tupperware boxes! Then in comes Rosie. Her first words were "owight welsh boy". Then she slated me for a while before snoring the night away!