Our Schedule in Africa - 1998

Our Itinerary: Africa 1998 — 1999

France · Egypt · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Kenya-2 · Uganda · Tanzania-2 · Zanzibar · Malawi-2 · Moçambique

Zimbabwe-2-3-4 · Botswana-2-3 · Zambia-2-3 · Namibia · South Africa-2 · Madagascar



1998 \| March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

1999 \| January · February · March · Asia \| Breakfast · Hydroplane · Breakfast Breakdowns


	France (5 nights)

March 1998
4	7:00P — Air France flight 61 (B742) Los Angeles, CA — Charles de Gaull, Paris, France
5	Arrive evening, drop off bags at Ducks 3 Hostel, and immediately procede to Eiffel Tower. The night of the infamous “This is not duck this is beef” only-restaurant-open scam
6	Toulouse; woke up in Paris; visited the Louvre; 4pm train to Toulouse. Nice dinner with Tina, some wine.
7	Toulouse; beautiful bike ride
8	Biking all day and crepes on the square
9	Billet @ 5:18pm 320.00 FRF (2nd class; voit 18; Place No 47) Arrive 10:30pm and walk around Paris

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	Egypt (26 nights)

March 1998
10	Cairo (1) — Nortre Dam in the morning. 1:45P — Air France flight 504 Paris, France — Le Caire, Egypt; Minerva Hotel located on the fifth floor of an old colonial building that has gone to seed
11	Cairo (2) — Wake up late (4:30p); demanded breakfast but to no avail
12	Cairo (3) — Mosque of Mohamid Ali; walk through Islamic Cairo; 2nd hand market; Todd eats meat off the street; our sell-perfume-for-5-times-the price scam; evening Nile cruise
13	Cairo (4) — Wake up late; Egyptian museum; pyramids; dinner of pigeon with Mr.Gerges and Tiger
14	Training — City of the Dead; met Ed, the crazy Dutch man; midnight train to Luxor
15	Luxor — Todd's Birthday; Karnac; Ride around at night
16	Luxor — Cyndi
17	Training — Luxor; train to Cairo; bus to Suez; all day delay; wrote “Sometimes” ; mini van to Tarabin
18	Tarabin — Met the guy that biked to Libya. This guy nonchalantly got on his bike, the way you and I might ride to the beach, and biked all the way to Libya
19	Tarabin
20	Dahab (1) — Arrived by taxi in the backway
21	Dahab (2) — Dahab relax
22	Dahab (3) — Open water dive 1 — Lighthouse
23	Dahab (4) — Open water dive 2,3 — Lighthouse
24	Dahab (5) — Open water dive 4 — the Canyon; received Open Water Diver certificate from Adventure Dive Club, Dahab
25	Dahab (6) — Drift dive 5- Eel Gardens to Lighthouse; saw sea turtle; fan coral
26	Dahab (7) — Advanced naturalist dive 6 — the Islands; saw the following: common goldfish; wiasses; parrot fish; queen angle; bluefish; kiwi coral; lettuce coral; mushroom coral; brain coral; sea anemone. Advanced navigation dive 7 — Lighthouse; no visibility; basically a failed dive, but fun
27	Dahab (8) — Advanced dive 30 meters 8 — the Canyon. This is where I wrote the classic postcard
28	Dahab (9) — Advanced night dive 9 — Lighthouse; saw lobster; octopus; porcipine fish; eels; sticky cucumber
29	Dahab (10) — Advanced multi-level dive 10 — Blue Hole; incredible. Free Dive 11 — the Canyon; in the fish bowl; millions of glass fish; received Advanced Diver certificate from Adventure Dive Club, Dahab
30	Mt. Sanai summit — worried about getting the bends. Damn cold and damn good
31	Na'ama Bay — Free Dive 12 — Abu Helal; the dive where I became a fan. Bus to Na'ama Bay

April 1998
1	Na'ama Bay — Thistlegorn — Sha'ab Ali Dive 13 (outside), 14 (inside); sunken WWII British cargo ship (hit October 6, 1941). Stingray Station Dive 15 — Ras Mohamed, Sanai
2	Dahab (11) — relaxation in Na'ama Bay; Egypt Air various price scam; fuck-this-place-bus-back-to-Dahab
3	Cairo; Early, yet lagging, all day bus to Cairo
4	Egypt Air ticket meltdown; last day Cairo leave at 3:15am (April 5)

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	Eritrea (10 nights)

April 1998
5	Asmara (1) — Arrived at 5am via Egypt Air; walked around town market; Chinese restaurant
6	Asmara (2) — Ethiopian visa; walk to south of town.
7	Ghindi — Rented NIVA 1600
8	Masawa (1) my birthday with Sylvana & Ulda; fish at Salama's
9	Masawa (2) — Gurgusom beach day; fish at Salama's
10	Masawa (3) — wandered around town; the harbor/no passport incident; the pakistani grain ship; fish at Salama's
11	Keren (1) — 2 bus trips; neat night rest stop
12	Keren (2) — The mountain hike with kids; boom
13	Keren (3) — The Monday livestock market
14	Adi Kala

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	Ethiopia (35 nights)

April 1998
15	Adwa
16	Axum
17	Axum; hike to the church; visited the stelae; bathing grounds of the Queen of Sheba
18	Axum; bucket shower; Easter services all night
19	Shiray; 6:00am bus to Shiray; hotel overpriced scam; see Easter ceremonies on the way; hike to hill top; meet man with gun
20	Adi Arkay — the Ethiopian Tina; coldest beer in the village
21	Debark — the famed Lorry day
22	Debark — the chill out day
23	Debark — the Austrain training park visit
24	Gondar — 6:00am bus; Johanes shows us around; walk to the famous Debre Berhan Selassie Church and saw the angels painted on the ceiling
25	Gondar —
26	Lalibela, the “You are week.”
27	Lalibela, day 1 of the tour
28	Lalibela, day 2 of the tour
29	Bahir Dar — Ghion Hotel; the 30-birr-to-the airport-we-will-walk-instead scam
30	Bahir Dar — Ghion Hotel; explored the Blue Nile Falls near Tis Abbay

May 1998
1	Addis Ababa (1) — Larium Day, flew into Addis today. Stay at Park Hotel
2	Addis Ababa (2)
3	Addis Ababa (3)
4	Addis Ababa (4) — The “Buy Breakfast” day. Today we attempt to buy in Addis Ababa, on May 4, 1998, two months after a famed Egypt Air flight, a 1980 White Toyota Hilux small truck for an African Overland Adventure, with a rebuilt Ford V6 engine. Your joking, right? No…
5	Addis Ababa (5)
6	Addis Ababa (6)
7	Addis Ababa (7)
8	Addis Ababa (8)
9	Addis Ababa (9)
10	Addis Ababa (10)
11	Lake Langano — We bush camped next to the lake. Our first night with Breakfast. As soon as we set up camp, several Ethiopians come out of the bushes and watch us
12	Araba Minch — Arrive after dark without headlights; it was here where we named our truck ‘Breakfast’ in honor of a nice poster hanging in the kitch. We ate fish for dinner both nights
13	Arba Minch, swimming down in the valley, ate fish
14	Konso, drive all day, make Potjie
15	Jinka, arrive late, make Potjie
16	Jinka, the turn off the water after 1 week no shower scam
17	Burge, the steep hill, bush camp, shit scare day
18	Mega, warm fresh bread, bush camp, near border
19	Moyale, silencer falls of exaust system

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	Kenya (1st time; 31 nights) (40 nights total)

May 1998
20	Moyale (Kenya side), No cross border scam
21	Marsabit, 6am to 8pm, 14 hours of neck-jarring road along the East African Trans-continental hyway
22	Archer's Post
23	Chuka
24	Chuka
25	Nairobi (1)
26	Nairobi (2)
27	Nairobi (3)
28	Nairobi (4)
29	Nairobi (5)
30	Nairobi (6) — The food poisoning day
31	Nairobi (7) — Our meningitus shot

June 1998
1	Nairobi (8)
2	Nairobi (9)
3	Nairobi (10)
4	Naivasha
5	Naivasha
6	Hell's Gate
7	Nakuru
8	Eldorate Overland
9	Eldorate Overland
10	Eldorate — Kip Keino's place
11	Eldorate — Kip Keino's place
12	Eldorate — Kip Keino's place (?)
13	Kitale — Safari Place
14	Eliye Springs, Lake Turkana
15	Eliye Springs, Lake Turkana
16	Bush Camp, Turkana
17	Turkwell Gorge — Lodwa omlette
18	Turkwell Gorge
19	Total Gas Staion with Joseph

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	Uganda (21 nights)

June 1998
20	Jinji — crossed at Malaba; camped at Bujagali Falls
21	Jinja — Sunday; banks closed
22	Kampala (1)
23	Kampala (2)
24	Kampala (3)
25	Kampala (4)
26	The wied “no menu” place
27	Bwindi Impenetrable
28	Bwindi Impenetrable
29	Bwindi Impenetrable
30	Bwindi Impenetrable

July 1998
1	Bwindi Impenetrable
2	Bwindi Impenetrable
3	Bwindi Impenetrable — Todd and I track the gorillas today in the dense forest
4	Bwindi Impenetrable — Greg and Nicole track the gorillas
5	Lake Bunyoni
6	Kampala (5)
7	Kampala (6)
8	Kampala (7) — Lake Victoria
9	Jinja
10	Jinja — The Nile river rafting trip

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	Kenya (2nd time; 9 nights)

July 1998
10	The stalled-at-lunch-border crossing
11	Kakamega — Stayed with Nick, the Ornithologist
12	Eldorat — The Breakfast-spin-out-inncident; Kip Keino's place (World Cup; Confirmed Date)
13	Lake Bogoria — millions of flamingoes; bushcamp in the middle of herds of zebra
14	Nairobi (11) — Tuesday Masai Market
15	Nairobi (12) — Nicole leaves for Europe; Todd drinks
16	Lake Magadi Camp
17	Nairobi (13) — Greg kicked rock in my eye in the early morning; Masia market; engine makes wierd noises
18	Amboseli — “HP Sauce!”

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	Tanzania (1st time; 8 nights) (17 nights total)

July 1998
19	Arusha — Masai Camp
20	Arusha — Masai Camp
21	Ngorongoro Crater — the drive out
22	Ngorongoro Crater attempt
23	Ngorongoro Crater
24	Arusha — Morning drive from Crater; retread tyre scam
25	Traveler's Lodge and Camp — The bag-on-Brian-Brian-goes-to-bed-early-night
26	Dar es Salaam — Silver Sands Hotel

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	Zanzibar (5 nights)

July 1998
27	Dar es Salaam → Zanzibar Catamaran Passenger Cruiser Africa Shipping Corporation LTD. PO Box 3231 Zanzibar, Tanzania Fare $15 (first class) + Port Tax $5 Stone Town — Arrive, find hotel, wander, sunset at night market
28	Stone Town — Change money, dry clean adventure, Kate's sarong buying escapade, sunset at night market
29	Stone Town — Spice Tour in the rain, night market
30	Stone Town — Today we wander, I get lost, meet Jocelyn at the night market
31	Stone Town — The trip to the beach on the other side of the island. I get lost wandering home at night

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	The Black Diamond — At Sea (1 night)

August 1998
1	At sea — Hook up with George, the Polish sailor and Bossman and their Black Diamond 52 foot double mast sailboat. Great connection. Clear customs and sail out of Stone Town at sunset after shopping and one final walk through Stone Town. Goodbye Zanzibar

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	Tanzania (2nd time; 3 nights)

August 1998
2	Dar es Salaam — Wake on the Black Diamond; Deserted Island; Silver Sands Hotel
3	Dar es Salaam — Silver Sands Hotel; The Chigger Incident
4	Kisolanza Farm Camp, Iringa, made blackberry jam
5	The Tanzanian 2 km/hr over the speed limit radar gun scam

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	Malawi (1st time; 13 nights) (31 nights total)

August 1998
5	Karango — Cross into Malawi (Songwe Border); sleep in the Karango Courtyard
6	Korango — car won't start, rebuild Breakfast's alternator, eat fried chambo fish, yum
7	Livingstonia — Drive to Chitimba, first dip into Lake Malawi, see friends at overland stop, drive up to Livingstonia. US Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam bombed
8	Nkhata Bay (1) — Begin clicking, drive to Mzuzu, and then on to Nkhata Bay, Africa Bay Backpackers, clicking getting worse
9	Nkhata Bay — the gear box has failed, jerry died 3 yrs ago, my god, are what are all those parts doing all over the place
10	Nkhata Bay (2) — market
11	Nkhata Bay (3) — bought the teak pipe
12	Nkhata Bay (4) — Murray Powers
13	Nkhata Bay (5) — stoned
14	Nkhata Bay (6) — gear box finished, bought the Fish Chair. Maula Tyre Fitters and General Repairs Prop L.D. Kamanga PO Box 2 Nkhata Bay
15	Nkhata Bay (7) — Party
16	Leave Africa Bay, eat small, fried bird in Salima, go to Lilongwe and camp at a house, nice dinner
17	Awaken in Lilongwe with ants infestation, get Moçambique Visa, drive to Mwanza at Malawi/Moçambique border
18	Wake up at 5:00am, exit Malawi (Mwanza border), 6:00am

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	Moçambique (0 nights)

August 1998
18	Tete Corridor 7:00am — 10:30am (Cuchamano border)

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	Zimbabwe (1st time; 17 nights) (46 nights total)

August 1998
18	Harare — Enter Zim (Nyamapanda border) at 11:30am, eat lunch at some random gas station, try to change money, meet Chris T. at the airport at 1:30pm, go meet up with Aren & Marieke
19	Harare, meet the Mies and Roland at the airport, get drunk that night
20	Harare, my backpack gets stolen early in the morning; play tennis
21	Harare, play tennis
22	Harare — bought travelers checks at the mall; Aren's roof rack trouble; Brian's freak dance on top of the car
23	Photo Developing, bought 10 rt tickets to Madagascar
24	Bulawayo — Nicole rejoins the group
25	Matopos
26	Matopos
27	Hwange — Main Camp
28	Hwange — Sinamatella Camp
29	Hwange — Masuma Dam
30	Hwange — Masuma Dam

September 1998
1	Hwange — Robbins Camp — Greg freak-out day
2	Victoria Falls (1); High Tea
3	Victoria Falls (2); Mies and I go to the falls
4	Victoria Falls (3); Zambezi River Rafting
5	Victoria Falls (4); Zambia go-comeback

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	Zambia (1st time; 0 nights) (19 nights total)

September 1998
5	Victoria Falls — Zambia side

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	Zimbabwe (2nd time; 1 night)

September 1998
5	Victoria Falls (4); Zambia go-comeback

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	Botswana (1st time; 3 nights)

September 1998
6	Chobe National Park; enter Botswana (Kazungula Road border); camped by river; baboons stole our avocados
7	Chobe; the day of the Breakfast/Leo breakdown; bush camped on the side of the road
8	Botswana army rescue

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	Zimbabwe (3rd time; 27 nights)

September 1998
8	Victoria Falls (5); enter Zimbabwe (Kazungula border); Leo tows Breakfast to Vic Falls; party at Down Under
9	Victoria Falls (6)
10	Victoria Falls (7) — Greg and Bass leave the group
11	Victoria Falls (8) — Jocelyn leaves the group
12	Victoria Falls (9)
13	Bulawayo
14	Kyle Recreation Center
15	Kyle Recreation Center
16	Harare (10)
17	Harare (11)
18	Harare (12)
19	Harare (13)
20	Harare (14)
21	Harare (15)
22	Harare (16)
23	Harare (17)
24	Chinhoyi — The nice dinner night
25	Matusadona (1) — Arrove after dark
26	Matusadona (2) — Canoe and mud/elephant dung fight
27	Matusadona (3) — Fishing and bush baby walk
28	Karoi
29	Mana Pools (1)
30	Mana Pools (2)

October 1998
1	Mana Pools (3)
2	Mana Pools (4)
3	Mana Pools
4	Mana Pools
5	Exit Zimbabwe (Chirundu border)

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	Zambia (2nd time; 9 nights)

October 1998
5	Kufue Gorge
6	Kufue Gorge — The mosquito bite that give me malaria
7	Chisamba
8	Chisamba
9	Lusaka — Zambian multiple entry visa scam, Lusaka regional immigration office.
10	Lusaka — Chris leaves the group, the breakfast-is-rushed-my-hiking-boots-get-stolen scam
11	Lusaka
12	Random roadhouse
13	Iringa
14	Exit Zambia (Mwami border)

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	Malawi (2nd time; 18 nights)

October 1998
14	Senga Bay — Enter Malawi (Mchinji border) drive to Livingstonia Hotel campground; listened to Culture Live over and over; Todd sick
15	Senga Bay — Livingstonia Hotel, cashed travelers check maybe this is the receipt for that: Commercial Bank of Malawa, Ltd. Capital City Branch — Lilongwe 3 15 Oct 1998. Convert US $200 at rate 41.69 to Kw 8,338.12 — 110.20 commision = Kw 8,227.92 Question: Why is this from Lilongwe on this day?
16	Nkhata Bay (8) —
17	Nkhata Bay (9) —
18	Nkhata Bay (10) —
19	Nkhata Bay (11) —
20	Nkhata Bay (12) —
21	Nkhata Bay (13) — Brian is malarious
22	Nkhata Bay (14) —
23	Nkhata Bay (15) —
24	Nkhata Bay (16) —
25	Nkhata Bay (17) —
26	Nkhata Bay (18) —
27	Nkhata Bay (19) —
28	Nkhata Bay (20) — Marieke's Birthday; campfire on the beach
29	Nkhata Bay (21) —
30	Nkhata Bay (22) —
31	Nkhata Bay (23) —

November 1998
1	Senga Bay
2	Senga Bay — fishing boat village excursion; you buy mangos scam
3	Exit Malawi (Mchinji border)

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	Zambia (3rd time; 10 nights)

November 1998
3	Chitapa — Enter Zambia (Mwami border) the free camping place
4	South Luangwa — Arrive after dark
5	South Luangwa — Zambia, cashed travelers check at park gate
6	South Luangwa — day two
7	Petauke (Petukalae) — the neat off-road adventure; Zambian moon
8	Lusaka, cashed travelers check at bank
9	Kafue National Park attempt — Brian doesn't pay park entrance
10	Lusaka — The coil spring fixing project
11	Livingstone — Jolly Boys backpackers
12	Livingstone — Jolly Boys backpackers
13	Cross into Zimbabwe

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	Zimbabwe (4th time; 1 night)

November 1998
13	Victoria Falls

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	Botswana (2nd time; 0 nights)

November 1998
14	Enter Botswana (Kazungula border); drove several k's; exit Botswana (Ngoma border)

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	Namibia (30 nights)

November 1998
14	Katima Mulilo — Enter Namibia (Ngoma border) Katima M. Shell
15	Caprive Strip Game Park
16	Game Park
17	Game Park
18	Rundu — Golf; the gear box breaks again
19	Windhoek — Grootfontein
20	Windhoek — FN Bank of Namibia
21	Windhoek —
22	Windhoek —
23	Windhoek — bought stamps at Post Office
24	Windhoek — Hospital, malaria test, pharmacy
25	Windhoek
26	Windhoek
27	Namib — Naukluft Park
28	Sossusvlei
29	Remote “the-sky-is-the-limit-i'm-going-to-have-my-own-potjie” campground
30	Swakapmund

December 1998
1	Swakapmund
2	Swakapmund
3	Swakapmund
4	Windhoek
5	Windhoek
6	Windhoek
7	Windhoek — developed photos
8	Windhoek
9	Windhoek
10	Windhoek
11	Windhoek
12	Windhoek
13	Windhoek

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	Botswana (3rd time; 1 night)

December 1998
14	Enter Botswana (Mamono border) Slept at the gas station with the brutal lightning storm
15	Exit Botswana (Ramatlabama border)

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	Suid Africa (1st time; 4 nights) (58 nights total)

December 1998
15	Johanesburg — Enter South Africa (Ramatlabama border)
16	Johanesburg
17	Johanesburg
18	Johanesburg
19	Exit South Africa — Johannesburg International Airport

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	Madagascar (28 nights)

December 1998
19	Antananarivo — Air Madagascar
20	Antananarivo
21	Antananarivo
22	Analamazaotra (Perinet) — Brokedown mini-van taxi to the track the legendary indiri lemur; go on a night hike and see a red grasshopper; sleep at Hotel Buffet de la Gare — an old railway station
23	Antananarivo — Day hike in Perinet; Parson's Chameleon; yellow grasshopper; Mies & Wouter arrive
24	Antananarivo
25	Antananarivo
26	Antsirabe
27	Antsirabe
28	Fianarantsoa — The Wine tour
29	Ihosey
30	Ifaty, Mora Mora Resort — the Life, oh Life ride
31	Ifaty, Mora Mora Resort

January 1999
1	Ifaty, Mora Mora Resort — the day of rest
2	Ifaty, Mora Mora Resort — the scuba diving day
3	Ifaty, Mora Mora Resort — take the sailboat down the coast; eat fish in village
4	Ifaty, Mora Mora Resort
5	Toliara, Chez Micheline Rest House
6	Isalo
7	Isalo
8	Fianarantsoa
9	Fianaransoa
10	Ranamofana — The hotel burn down, move to other hotel night
11	Ranamofana — The massage and hot pool day; Hotely Ravinala
12	Ranamofana — The Dutch arrive; Hotely Ravinala
13	Ranamofana — Hotely Ravinala
14	Antananarivo
15	Antananarivo

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	Suid Africa (2nd time; 54 nights)

January 1999
16	Johanesburg — Enter South Africa — Johannesburg International Airport
17	Kruger
18	Kruger
19	Kruger
20	Pretoria (1)
21	Pretoria (2)
22	Pretoria (3)
23	Pretoria (4)
24	Pretoria (5)
25	Pretoria (6) — The Todd's leave
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27
28
29
30
31

February 1999
1
2	The Lion Farm
3	The Lion Farm
4
5	Orange River
6	Orange River
7	Coleburg
8	The South African Farmhouse
9	Port Eliazbeth
10	Jeffery's Bay
11	Jeffery's Bay
12	Jeffery's Bay
13	Jeffery's Bay
14	Jeffery's Bay
15	Jeffery's Bay
16	Jeffery's Bay
17	Jeffery's Bay
18	Jeffery's Bay
19	Wilderness
20
21	Cape Town
22	Cape Town
23	Cape Town
24	Cape Town
25	Cape Town
26	Cape Town
27	Cape Town
28	Cape Town

March 1999
1	Cape Town
2	Cape Town
3	Cape Town
4	Cape Town, Table Mountain with Jessie (ticket stub)
5	Cape Town
6	Cape Town
7	Cape Town
8	Cape Town
9	Cape Town
10	Cape Town — My last night in Africa
11	Exit South Africa (Cape Town International Airport); fly to Johannesburg; fly over Madagascar; fly over Maritius; land in Malaysia — but that's a different story

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France · Egypt · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Kenya-2 · Uganda · Tanzania-2 · Zanzibar · Malawi-2 · Moçambique

Zimbabwe-2-3-4 · Botswana-2-3 · Zambia-2-3 · Namibia · South Africa-2 · Madagascar



1998 \| March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

1999 \| January · February · March · Asia	Breakfast · Breakfast Breakdowns

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