Between the Schnapps & the Icy Atlantic

Well obviously we didn’t go from sipping Schnapps to goodbye’s without a little effort. When Jimmy & Kinnie decided not to join us, we decided to curtail the trip a little, the consensus being the trip was more important than being able to put ‘Cape to Cairo’ on our CV. So the Bahmanns are leaving from L’Agulhas and we from good old Pennington. With all the bureaucracy and costs levied by Egypt we all felt we could fly into Egypt at anytime without the hassles.

So, Agulhas to Addis it will be.

Each African country seems to want to outdo their neighbour in trying to put off the Mzungu ( as we whities are known further N) from visiting, their neck of the woods and soon ‘R WE MAD?’ was heard from Lorna’s and my lips with regularity. Every country requires a different set of stickers, triangles, visas, currency and the list goes on & on. Then you start reading other travelers blogs about surly officials, exorbitant park fees, rubbish tips for camp sites and we just have to ask ourselves ‘R WE MAD?’ Who is going to check the house, cut the lawn, pay the accounts while we are away? How are we going to keep in contact with everyone and what about speaking to Kelli & Tyron, ‘R WE MAD?’

Slowly but surely we realized WE R MAD and so the idea of ‘R WE MAD?’ was conceived. We hope you enjoy reading about our travels as much as we know we are going to enjoy the real thing.

Getting Going

Today, we decided it is time to move into the 21st century and to document our travels the modern way. 

So out with the photo albums..............................

in with the BLOG, and what better time than on this our grandest most challenging adventure to date, AGULHAS TO ADDIS '09. 

It all started, as these things do, sitting around a crackling fire, schnapps in hand somewhere in Africa with Uli, Anka, Jimmy & Kinnie, when someone said our next trip should be Cape to Cairo. Well days, weeks and months have passed and here we are, one week away from the Bahmanns departure from the most southerly point of Africa, L'Agulhas. We are flying to Cape Town to witness the event on the 2 June 09. U & A will be heading via Northern Zululand , Mozambique and then on to our meeting point at Iringa in Southern Tanzania.

We on the other hand , other than packing in a 10 day trip to the Cape and the send off, still need to do a million things before our departure on the 21 June to Johannesburg. Here we will get to finalize the last few items (hopefully), say our goodbyes before setting out to meet the B's on the 2 July at Iringa. We plan to avoid the Bots meat issues by traveling through Zimbabwe. Our route being Jhb, Beit Bridge, Harare, Chirundu, Lusaka, Kapiri Mposhi, Mpika, Mbeya and finally Iringa. Well thats the plan anyway......................... we will try to keep you posted here.