14/5/13
We made it to Lilongwe, the capitol of Malawi in another
long (longer than it should have been thanks to slow slow buses) day of travel,
and spent the night at a pretty nice hostel, before waking up early to catch
buses to Chipata in Zambia. The bus from
Chipata to the border was thrilling. A
bag of fish the size of a nine year old child was on the lap of the man behind
Mailin and me, and little dried fish kept falling in our laps, in our bags, and
in our hair. It smelled awesome.
We made it to Chipata in pretty good time, and Abby and
Erilka arranged to head out to South Luangwa National Park for a game drive to
see big cats, while Mailin and I stayed in Chipata to push ahead to Victoria
Falls. We got onto the bus from Chipata
to Lusaka at 5 am this morning. Luckily,
we were able to sleep until almost 8 am. At around 9, they changed Christian
music videos for a movie. Great! A way to stay busy for the next few hours. They played Taken. Just what young ladies want to watch while travelling. Thank goodness I can rest easy knowing Alex
will “go all Liam Neesan if anything happens to me.” What a great bro.
We just arrived in Lusaka around 11:30 and now we’ve got a
ten hour bus ride ahead of us out to Victoria Falls. This bus is hilarious. Faux red tiles on the floor, velour seats in
burnt orange with lava lamp patterns shaved out, sea green curtains, flower
print, cream colored ceiling, plastic covers over the lights with very fancy crystal-like
etching. It’s like the late 70s blew up on this bus.
Also, I’m wearing a shirt I bought for the Barcelona
Football Club. Everyone coming onto the
bus to sell food and cheap goods while we wait in the station keeps calling me
Barca and trying to get me to buy Barcelona watches.
Totally African moment: One of the men selling
biltong—delicious beef jerkey—celebrated Ronny’s 50th birthday on
National Pig Day. I know this because
the back of his shirt has a cake on the back that says so.
This is going to be a good ride.
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