A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Gabon...

I decided it was time to come home. The truck problems have kept us in Cameroon, and the parts still haven't arrived yet to repair the engine. Even with the best case scenerio of getting the parts on Monday and leaving on Tuesday, we still may not make the Angola-Namibia border until the beginning of April. To fly home either from Angola or to Nairobi to catch my flight would have been too expensive, especially since the next few weeks would be spent in the back of the truck for 14 hours a day. Add into that the fact that the part of Angola that we are going to has bad roads with land mines located just off the road and the fact that Congo has been rated as the most dangerous place to travel in the world (yes, apparently more dangerous than Iraq and Afghanistan) and the decision was a no brainer.

If all goes well I will be home Monday at 1pm.