Thread: Lets See The Transport havn a Oops moment

Originally Posted by Fawls

How, what, why were you even there? great stories and adventures but how did it all come about?

Only one way to get from Kenya to Ethiopia, and we really wanted to go to Ethiopia. That’s pretty much all there is to it! Ethiopia and Sudan were very different and quite challenging, culture wise, much more so than the rest of bantu Africa. Very rewarding, despite a dose of malaria and amebic dysentery along the way.

We got caught up in the Ethiopia - Eritrea border war which was a totally dumb thing to do but all it takes is one wrong turn. I blame the blind deaf non-English speaking amputee octogenarian we asked for directions. Got “rescued” (more like arrested) by the Ethiopian army and handed over with much amusement to the UN blue helmets who put us in lockdown in Adigrat. This resulted in us making friends with a Canadian Captain and a Swedish Lt-Col, friendships that we hold very dear to this day and have resulted in some fantastic trips in their home countries, and vice versa.