Midnight Packing and Virtual Bridges

After a long night of trying to force a bridge across the Mozambique – Tanzania border (Rovuma River), using nothing but Google Earth and Garmap, I finally decided to try my hand at something more basic like … packing.

As you might imagine building virtual bridges strong enough to carry my Syncro (with the stuff Mari-Louise had me put in it) takes time.  Add to that the usual underestimate with regards to packing and here is me at 12:30 Friday morning. 

…taking break and about 1 hour away from sleeping.

(Note the purely accidental bear trail, courtesy of a over exposure on my camera)

Seriously though, it is amazing to think that along the 600 km (odd) border between Tanzania and Mozambique that there is only two places to cross the border.  The first is a Ferry Crossing in the west, on the coast.  Sadly this recently sank and lets just say that nobody seems to be in a hurry to fix the situation. 

The second is virtually on the Malawi lake.

This really has thrown our route into flux and frankly we do not, at this point, know where we are going to be driving.

Earlier tonight, this somewhat upset me, but at this point I must honestly say that I am fine with it.

There is a change we will commission a ad-hoc ferry crossing using tied together fishing boats.  COOL!

Ciao CHM