Quite a crowd gathered as we had breakfast and packed up-
We ignore them for the most part but will often offer our leftovers. They usually only want them if it's rsomething they recognize. Usually everything is too foreign to them. Once I gave a young man some chicken stew which he tasted but promptly spit it out! Itwasn't that bad, really. Not like the mystery meat we had the other night. It was supposedly chicken but if that was chicken then I'm the next Queen of England! The fat was weird, the texture was weird even though it was white meat and each piece was shaped the same with a weird bone in it. The only thing chickeney about it was the skin so what was it? Not pork - we haven't seen a pig for days, not fish,... So crocodile? We are near rivers or was it human? Ha! Those eating it around me didn't even finish it and I don't think anyone had seconds. It was too weird.
Anyway, our day included a large detour around an apparently shit road. The scenery was nice-
but the road was rough and never ending and it was smoking hot. It was slow going. We started meeting people who were giving us a sign of crossed arms in front of their faces which means closed road and soon we saw what they meant. There were 3 logging trucks bogged down-
and had been for three days. Luckily the tow truck and digger had arrived.
The bucket went over the load-
to hold the logs-
while the tow truck pulled. The first truck came out no problem-
but the second truck started going over. Luckily the bucket driver quickly adjusted and saved a catastrophe.
We carried on to a 'town' where they supposedly had a hotel. They did but only one room so we set up in a quarry. I like quarries because the ground is hard and gravelly and if it rains, we're usually okay. I'm on cook group, possibly my last one depending how many hotels we stay in along the way. We are having omelettes and pancakes! Not sure how that will go but we will see. It Is pretty slim pickings for fresh vegetables, in fact we have seen absolutely none today. The only shop we vsiited only had eggs, hence lthe omelettes! Hoping for a dry night too. We're off to Dolisie in the morning to try and get our Angola visas.
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