No time for breakfast, not even tea!
Take all the bags downstairs then the bastard is 50 minutes late!
Watch the sun slowly rise, a couple of impatient phone calls, apologies
and headlights approaching. We're on our way.. well almost. Have to pick
up Japi, then bank at friendship building - closed, then Hilton - okay.
Now on our way.
The journey out of town is full of sights. Thousands of people commuting
into town. Cueing for public busses or the private mini busses. Swarms of
people walking beside the road. They walk kilometers! It seams like a
dozen or more. Roadwork chaos and a couple of new swanky housing estates
on the edge of town - weird.
We keep driving in our 1980's Land Cruiser. road works continue. This is
without doubt, the bumpiest road I will ever travel on in my life. Truly
bone rattling!
We stop at odd little hotel for lunch. Tim has 'special breakfast with
boiled egg'. I have 'Eggs scrambled with contnl'. which means with a bread
roll.
We continue the rattling journey as the landscape changes to rural, small
subsistence farms, thatch huts, climbing into the mountains. People
staring as we appear, a curiosity.
Take turn off to Guassamen, An accommodation project run be the Frankfurt
Zoological Society who aim to protect the Ethiopian wolf - Very rustic.
Along the way, stop the car for a look across the ancient Rift Valley,
hundreds of meters below and kilometers across, lush. We arrive, dump our
gear, have tea and go for a beautiful evening walk across the alpine
hills. Searching for wolf and baboons. None.
Deep sleep.
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