By the time I made it to the Angola/DRC border, it was getting dark, I was severely dehydrated and hadn’t been able to keep down hardly any food.
I had read somewhere online that the border was open until 6PM, so with my 5:45 arrival time and the fact that the border was remote and had […]

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Sort of.
Apologies for the posting delay, but a variety of things and unforeseen circumstances have gotten in the way. 
Expect a flurry of updates shortly, and a new joke involving a Congolese woman beaten to a pulp by police, a fat-ass mosquito-catching corrupt  Cameroonian cop, and Nigerian ferry-hijacking pirates. 
It’s hysterical.

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So after a fitful night of half-consciousness (and one episode of flagging down the only truck that passed by the whole night for water), I woke up to find 5 bushmen poking around the outside of my tent.
Besides the whole crashing constantly thing of the previous day, I also, in my infinite wisdom after my […]

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