To: Mbeya
Another beautiful cycling day. The biggest piece of news is that ... I rode through an entire town in the morning ... without stopping! I think that's a first on this trip! Riding through a town without stopping?! That's unheard of! I did it because I knew the lunch truck was waiting for me and I felt guilty making it wait even longer, as I was already the last person.
This reminds me. I will be leaving the official tour in Lilongwe, Malawi, about 1 week from now. It has been great. Everybody is super nice. But I just need more freedom, and I don't like feeling guilty about it all the time. So, from Lilongwe, I will head to southern Malawi, to see old friends. Then, instead of continuing south, I'm going to head back north, back through Tanzania (but parts that we didn't go through this time), and over to Uganda... and back home to Entebbe! That should take me about 6 weeks, which is just perfect because that's when I agreed to be back to work.
Rode the afternoon with Rachel, Duncan, and Alan. Alan is a new rider from Canada, who joined us in Nairobi. We did a LOT of climbing after lunch, but it was fun! Also, about half-way up, we found the best coke stop ever - ice cold cokes!
In the evening, played Texas Hold Em poker with some of the gang in the lounge of the hotel grounds where we are camping. That was fun because the stakes were low. I had many fixes, where I'd go all-in with somebody, have the upper hand by a longshot, and then they'd get one of only 3 "outs" that they needed. It happened many times, no big deal. It was fun - we played till about 10:00 p.m.
--------------------- TODAY ------------------- TOTAL
Cycled -------------- 97 km (61 mi) ------------- 4,081 km (2,558 mi)
Sagged ---------------- 0 -------------------------- 2,257 km (1,517 mi)
Total ---------------- 97 km (61 mi) ------------- 6,338 km (4,075 mi)
In Saddle ------------ 6 hours 32 min ------------ 259 hours 17 min
Ascended ------------ 3,800 feet ----------------- 66,895 feet
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7 comments:
You're leaving? I'll miss your updates and stories! Simply love your blog... so different from the others!
And more important: who is gonna stop Eva's head from getting too big? I don't want a big-headed girlfriend...!! Please instruct Janet!
Have a nice trip home, greetings to everybody from Jan Willem.
Hello Leigh Anne,
Oh, sorry to hear that the trip for you is almost done. Thanks for your stories and pictures on your blog, I raly enjoyed them.
Have a great ride still.
greatings from Joke
Hi pauvre
Pop called me and I don't understand why my two e-mails to your leigh smith account didn't go through, especially when I hit the "reply" button on the one you sent me this week.
I think you should try to complete the trip. I wrote another e-mail explaining why.
-O.
does this mean that you're going on alone, or with friends? be well, Leighanne. I don't need to say enjoy, cuz i know that you will.
Here's a hand for you:
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pretty nice.
it's pass, pass to you, and you open 1 club, 1 ht on your left, pass by pd, 2 clubs on your right. everyone is red. your bid?
well, i'm a bidder, and i said 2 spades, p, p, x by rightly. i pass, and lefty thinks a lot (he's a thinking kind of guy) and passes. dummy is
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it's enuf, tho. righty wins the first heart, and plays another, i ruff, play clubs (which split) and pitch diamonds. i actually made one overtrick, on a defensive error.
Fun.
Don't you miss bridge?
Sorry for using up your space on a hand.
Hi, Leigh Anne,
NO, you can't leave the tour!! We will miss your "reports" too much. AND we hoped to meet you in Livingstone (when we come to see Patrick at the Victoria Falls – I'm a waterfalls "freak"!). Or at least see you down here in Cape Town ... :-((
Well, good luck.
birga
What's all this then?! Sneaking off for a drinks break tour of Africa and not letting me know. David's over doing some training in Oxford and mentioned you had a blog so I Googled your name et voila - clever eh? (they don't just give away these PhD's you know). Some people may feel hurt or unwanted but I'm over it...loser ;-)
Having found your blog I thought "Just read the first few entries now and the rest when I get back home". 3 hours later and a very unproductive afternoon at work I feel the need to slap on some sun lotion, cover myself in red dust and drink copious amounts of Sprite. Oh well, bright yellow jacket, tiny-wheeled bike and London traffic it is.
Can honestly say I am incredibly jealous and won't even sully this blog with anything I've been up to as it will pale into insignificance beside your adventure.
Enjoy the rest of the trip, wherever that may take you.
Ed
Hi, Sorry to note that you are leaving the tour. However, there is time for everything. Thanks for the photos and stories. Now i don't know who will stop eva.
Regards
John (Nairobi)
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