On the road

Place: After Addis Ababa. Let’s say it’s Awassa.

Tunes: Nine Inch Nails, Armin van Buuren

Teijo avoiding some horses.

Dusty countryside roads. Note the beautiful new windscreen.

Where's the perfect line? Or do you just aim for the middle at full throttle and close your eyes or try to go slow around where you have some solid ground?

This is the lake that turned out to be a national park with men with guns asking for cash.

Beautiful ... Awassa was it ... at night? The pictures do not do it justice.

We met Pietiläinen in the morning. Many books were signed and good times were had, but we must press on.

The roads were ok, but a bit boring. The scenery has become greener and looks a bit like a jungle at places. It is also very flat now. The traffic is still easy. There are marginally fewer people throwing shit at us, but it still happens. The begging never stops and when it does not work, the kids have started stealing our stuff. I also got a blessing type thing (?) from this witch doctor type. I think she wanted money for doing it, but no luck as I probably got some kind of a skin disease from her, rather than a blessing.

As usual we are travelling in groups now rather than in a single larger one. In the morning sometimes we know where we are meeting up in the evening and sometimes we get the location or the hotel as a text message. Professionals travel like this as you cannot slow down for anything. Go team!

We are staying in this place somewhere and tomorrow we proceed to the Kenyan border. The hotel has cold beer and it is good.

Once we check in and sit at the terrace after a long day of riding, loud as hell christian preaching begins in the background. The guy is going on with such a passion and effort that I think he needs an ambulance when he is done. I hope this does not go on all night. A woman joined him and it sounds like she is the angriest person anywhere ever. Jesus this and Jesus that... I thought that this was supposed to be the religion of love, not hate. But that's what they say about every religion I guess...

Eventually they run out of gas or whatever they were on and we retired. Sleep is good. Today was I guess uneventful as the preaching was the most memorable thing. Or we are becoming so well'ard that racing, off-road events and such do not register anymore.