Friday, December 5, 2008

Monster Energy Distribution



I could not believe it, everything went very well and I had a little fly.
When this morning I went to see what was mine, the consulate of Angola, I have returned the passport and money and they told me that I can do because they have bullets (visas that stick in your passport)
It did not take even 5 minutes to load the bike and go back to Kinshasa to see if one arrives on time at the embassy, \u200b\u200b350 Kms retrace, with lots of rain. I arrive at night.
Now I'm in the suburbs, in the deep Kinshasa, Africa within Africa.
Tomorrow I'll find a better place to sleep, I have to be here until Monday, to open the embassy of Angola, and try again, with consequent delays.
All this and I feel more normal. Both hurry last month was because I knew that the bottleneck is here and the spiral of ridiculous bureaucracy that visas are not my book. Well
to wait again!
Kinshasa (DRC), far from home.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Is Dune Buggy Regestration Needed In Ontario




"Matadi is a hundred hills that climb up the side of the river Congo. Stanley passed by here dynamiting rocks brewing his Joseph Conrad" The heart of darkness "and thousands of employees of King Leopold of Belgium, who for years made the greatest genocide in modern history, ten million Congolese killed, until the Belgian government took over the colony.
is almost impossible to wipe the smile to people, but if you give kicking a hornet's nest butterflies do not go .....


Yesterday I took a delicious dish of black caterpillars, mmmh! that sauce! (Photo)
Then I started to talk to the parishioners of meal, they tell me I have to try the bat, which is the world's richest bird, I say that not a bird, a mammal that flies and already rolled a hilarious discussion between Batman, exotic food and grasshoppers, all very surreal (it must be the realism of the South)
I'm still waiting for my visa, overcast, thick humidity.
I walked through the train station (photo) and a little port, how much has changed everything!


...... but we forgot everything, will be the rain! "


Matadi (DRC)

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

How Would A Dog Word A Wedding Invite




"Sometimes it rains so much that you lose the tracks, which I and those who leave. It rains so much that they dilute the profiles are deleted, colors, shapes slowdown, the memory is flooded, turn off ideas, the compass goes crazy ... and only recognize the sound of the bubbles that form in rain puddles. Forget the name s , mine and yours "



Good news !!!!! I'm in Matadi!! Yesterday I left Brazzaville on the ferry from 10am , it all went very well. I tried to avoid the morning rush hour and take the ferry from ATC, which are smaller and go to another terminal under sugarcane.
preparations for departure had 60,000 CFA and the thing stayed in only 16,000 cfa, in half an hour he was on board.
Seven kms across the river Congo and came to the ineffable Kinshasa. Nothing do with what was 20 years ago, at the height of Mobutu, then gave a little scary. All paperwork super accurate, in-depth interview with the police and they cleared all their doubts (about me) The office charged me 50 D. USA by laissez-passer and the most graceful of health. Yellow fever and meningitis mandatory, it had, then I say I've gone through many countries and they have to disinfect the bike, so we agreed the costs of operation and is hygienic in 30 D. USA. In a 2h was out and happy.
Ah! Kinshsa women, famous throughout Africa, goddesses of true religions. Matadi
but I went for the 100 km I had to stop for rain, possible follow.
This morning I finally arrived and the first consulate of Angola, I have done all the paperwork to interview, including the consul and some luck in 3 or 4 days I have a visa, I have to go after tomorrow to see how is my thing.
'll keep counting.

Photos: Disinfection of the bike (no coughing) and Kinshasa in the mists of the river Congo (The Heart of Darkness)

Matadi (Democratic Republic of Congo) 10 900 Km from Madrid.

Monday, December 1, 2008

How To Break A Honeywell Safe






'm in Brazzaville (what's left is a guy who looks like me)
Dolisie I left on Saturday for the track, it appears that the train did not arrive until the evening and I decided not to waste time.

Top 10 Kms perfect (pictured below) then started to complicate things, all the track flooded, but in the first and the landing gear down could continue (with each supporting the raging sprain) when he saw a truck I went out fast and expected to pass. But thick, muddy pools of 200 m. About 12 o'clock it began to rain and will not last even 5 minutes (first fall) I get up, 3 meters (second fall). It was impossible to stay on standing, it's like finger flip-flops in the middle of an ice rink. The one home I say wait until it stops raining and the track a bit dry, I put the bike at home with the help of everyone, here are sliding worldwide.

Dolisie I left at 7 am and arrive at Nkay (80 Kms) at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I decide to take the train, but this is just as complicated.

All the way I was told many times that passed through territory "Ninja" (the rebels to the government) that were barriers and it was hard to swallow.
At 4 h of the night passed a train to Loutete (85 Kms) and picked it up, put my bike in the van to load and I side.

The next step was more complicated. trains have to go under military escort (Ninja area) about 50 soldiers with machine guns on two platforms. We must talk to the head of the convoy and ask permission, the final and I got the bike up on a platform. Since yesterday afternoon (all night) through the jungle, cold and rain. We arrived at dawn to Brazzaville, a surreal journey.

Then I spent the whores to start the bike after two days of upload and download. I thought I had loaded pressure relief valve, but it was just mud everywhere. It has taken me over 2 hours (this girl is)

Here I say that the border is open (there were heard all sorts of rumors) osea tomorrow attempt to Kinshasa (the world's worst border) and then the Angola visa in Matadi.

Photos: Host family, dawn in the goods van.

Brazzaville (Congo) 10 500 Km from Madrid