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 Hi there,

Im the daughter of the two oldies you met near Sabie. You stayed at our guest farm- Gunyatoo. My father was very excited to tell me that he had met you and Got some information for me :) Thank you! It sounds like you having an awesome trip- well done on living your dream.

Im still in the hard stages of trying to organise the whole "dream". I am only leaving in Jan 2011- little over two years from now. I will be travelling from UAE, through Oman and Yemen accross to Africa Erritrea. I will then travel around Africa following the coast line and back to UAE.

 I have managed to organise some sponsorships so far.... Yay!

Anyway just want to wish you luck and hope we can oragnise to meet sometime before my big adventure as I need as much advice as I can get. 

Cheers,

Tamin Connolly

"After exchanging half an hour of chat we realised they were people we had quickly consigned to the trash can in Dar Es Salaam because they were complete .**** ***** (censored by Janet)  We now had made friends with them again....c’est la vie."

Thank goodness we were going in the other direction in Dar but I think I know who it was ;-) Glad to see you are still on the road. We eventually made it to Europe, trip back to SA will commence in 2 weeks, see you on the road!

Jean, Hannelie & kid

Hi Cris & Janet,

Lost touch with you, we sent an email but didn't hear back. The way the internet has been in places you may not have received it.

Back home in Bellingen, the van went into the container last Weds in Durban then we flew out on the Sunday. It seems you are still wandering south. We went along the Garden Route from Cape Town and stopped off at a couple of great places. Will tell you about them if you feel they would be good places to stop a day or two.

We had trouble on the road to Sth Luangwa as well with 2 tyres ruined. Hobbled to Lusaka in a badly bulging back tyre.

An yhow, love to hear from you if you get a chance.

Gary & Joan

garyc@midcoast.com.au

 Dear Chris and Janet,

after a whole day of travelling with a local full packed machibombo, we have finally arrived in Vilankulo. The lack of space to put our feet in a half-way even surface while attempting to lean against a) the window (martin was lucky) b) a pile of backpacks packed in their turn on top on a similar pile o boxes, bags of food, etc c) other travellers's bodyparts (arse being particularly distressful - pardon our language), we came to appreciate with a refreshed quality your wonderful generosity in gving us a lift and must say we envy your most precious caravan of love.

Hope you're enjoying Tofo ;-). Amamo-vos \ Wir lieben Euch!!

Cheers, Martin (GE) and Catia (PT)

 Dear Stalkers,

Just looked at your blog with tears in my eyes. We do miss Afrika and you 2. When we read your stories and saw the pictures we just want to run back! It is not so easy to get back to normal life again. You feel like living in two worlds. Hopefully we will get a house to rent by the end of the week in the eastern part of Holland. Simon has an interview next week so slowly we hope to settle down more and more. Our car will arrive today in the harbour of Rotterdam so we are going to pick him up on monday. The Three Musketiers together again! Joehoeee! Hope you 2 are doing fine, stay safe and enjoy!

Thinking of you

Hugs,

The Dutchies Simon & Marjon

Wow, I cannot believe how much time has passed since we saw each other, and how much you must have seen. I miss Ethiopia still, and think about it quite frequently. I have to admit I have not checked on you regularly, but, of course, I am sillily envious of you two travelling whilst I am sitting in rainy Berlin studying for my finals.

I will be in touch again, and thank you for the wonderful website with interesting accounts of men peeing...

with love, Louisa

 Hi!!

Good to read your blog again. Must be great to be back! (We're jealous) Although it must also have been great to meet the family and friends in England and your grand-daughter, not to forget. We are back to work and everything is 'normal' again, but we do feel unsatisfied... It seems that Africa spoiled us!

Keep in touch! Hope to meet you again.

love, Reg and Natasja  

we are planning to do something similar, 2 to 3 years begin in 2010, we are now building the landcruiser, 1981 hj 47 diesel.....keep having fun and thanks for the info.

Hi there, I hope you are both having a fantastic time! I am starting to plan a similar trip to yourselves down the East Coast of Africa but in an old VW camper van. I'm looking for your advice on whether you have been glad to have taken the camper van or would recommend taking a 4x4 like 99% of the people in the blogs i have read have done! I have heard that the roads in Uganda and Ethiopia are particularly bad and was wondering how your van has coped with them?

I'd appreciate any advice if you have a spare few minutes - my email address is rosscunnison@hotmail.com

Thanks enjoy the rest of your trip of a lifetime!

Ro

Great to hear the news, looking forward to seeing you later in May.  The baby looks just like her Aunty Natalie!

 Dear Janet and Chris!

back in a land of technology, one of the first things I had to do, was to look you up! I'm glad to hear that you both are well. It was such a pleasure meeting you both in Gondar. I arrived back in Munich 3 days ago and am painfully missing Ethiopia. I will check up on you -- great website!!

Good luck,

with love, your Louisa

Hi,

How are you? Hope you finally made it to Addis Abeba! We are in Nairobi now. The car is in the garage and we hope to pick it up this afternoon. Ofcourse they ripped us off again... Tears were jumping in my eyes once again.
We're planning on going to Masai Mara and then down to the beaches of Tanzania. Need to relax! Hope to meet you there.

Keep in touch.

Reg and Natasja

Hi,

Just a quick note to say hello and hopefully you are on your way to Addis by now, we are currently in Arba Minch and from here we are heading to the Moyale border, Regentas are still entering Kenya via Omo Valley.  Hopefully see you somewhere enroute where ypou can tell us the painfull nitty gritty of the last couple of weeks.

Good luck, hope it doesnt hurt too much

See you soon

Troy & Michelle

Chris

Sorry to hear about the van - hopefully it will be fixed soon & you'll still have some money left for the rest of the trip! Normally, any project recommended by you I would steer well away from, but the Dutch couple do seem to be a more than worthwhile cause & if you could email me their details I'd ceratinly like to help.  

We hope your car is fixed by now and we'll meet you tonight in Khartoum. There's no McDonalds here, Chris, but they do have Steers!

Have to go for a number 2 now. Bye!

 Cheers, Natasja and Reg

Good to read all your travels and that the Turkmenistan curse seems to be well in the past!

We have completed our journey and have now unpacked our bags in Australia. We have brought a couple of farms here and start milking the cows in 2 days time!

Have been keeping an eye on your journey to make sure your both OK.

Happy Travels

Kevin & Alonna 

 Played golf with Wicks, Williams & Coverdale at the Grayshott Golf society meeting on 28th December. Team came 2nd but a change in captain next year, methinks.

You were mentioned.

Have a Happy New Year and keep the info flowing.

Cheers,

Jimmy 

I just can't believe you told everyone about your new friends.

Now I watch Spooks and know that you are in trouble with MI5, because:-

You've divulged information! Well on the basis that Janet is a woman and she has a new friend then it will all be out by now! They all do it !!

You took a bribe - $200 may not seem a lot but have you checked your Bank account?

You clearly now have links with foreign intelligence. Ok Egyptian Police - and you're in their Pay as well.

We won't be sharing Pro v's next year or thereafter I fear

A&E

Hi you two

Another tremendous account of some great experiences!!  We are just so impressed by all your adventures and "friend making" capacity.  It really hit home when you wrote about the warmth of your welcome in Iran and your insights into what the people really think about the world - got me reflecting that (unlike Sandra!!) I am very quick to stereo-type - Iran = Islamic Fundamentalism but Persia = Exotic and romantic!!  Daft or what??

Anyway, well done and long may this trip continue to be so joyous.

Keep the Blogs coming!!

 J&S