Gone Fishing

Well to counter the intense disapointment re angola we have decided to
do what men do best when there is a difficult issue at hand: go
fishing.

It is fishing with a difference - we loaded the pickup with fishing
gear and yes our beloved bicycles and full kit (ready to go), and
drove to Lusaka - a drive that was uneventful (i had a lovely sleep)
save for some erratic behaviour of other vehicles near us after dark.
Then we realised our lights were not on. I won't say who was driving.

We now plan to leave our perfectly good vehicle here and set off for
c. 90km on our bicycles, testing bamboo and steel down a dirt track
that disapears over an escarpment and into the Zambezi valley. We just
sought some local advice on the 'road' and were twice laughed at, and
that was before they knew we were using bicycles. It took one of them
7hrs in a landcruiser, it is described as very very steep and rocky.
Just as well in training we had lots of practice carrying our bikes
then. Alas unloaded.

So who knows if we will make it down in one day, we may never get
fishing at all, but we will have an adventure. Optimistically i have
booked us into a 3 course dinner tomorrow night at the campsite
(Kiambi camp) that is our target, so that is our carrot.

Not sure when we will get online again, but Peter is booked back to
Canada on Wednesday, so hope we will have managed to cycle back UP the
escarpment by then, and caught several monster tiger fish by fly :)

ps. we are headed on the map to the very centre - 'Chiawa'

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Dan