Death by Springbok

OK so i learned a couple things in the past couple days:

- Dont try to get through a toll booth at night outside joburg with a Canadian cerdit card… they dont take them and if you dont have cash they’ll tell you to stand on the side of the highway and ask people for money as they drive past.

- Sitting in the back of a pickup truck on side roads in swaziland sounds fun but can be very unsetttling.

- speaking of roads; there isnt a highway to swazi from joburg, its all side roads that arent lit.

- on lighting: dont rent a car from avis beucase the lights may need to be adjusted and you could be driving blind in rural africa.

- avoid walking around in Alex(outside joburg) with a camcorder; people “make calls’ and let thugs know where you are so they can mug you. luckily there are also very kind people in the area who will tel you if you’ve been “called in” so you can run the hell out.

- chicken livers are very popular here. i dont know why.

- From the individuals that i have met, the members of the Swazi royal family are great.

- and lastly, when driving in africa, keep your eeys peeled for springboks; they seem to like to dart in front of VW polos carrying Canadian tourists on unlit highways. Death by sprinkbok would not be a good way to go.

brent