DEAF DISCO DANCING! 25 May 2008 Day 85 Addis Ababa - Wabe Shebele Lodge Camping N7 39.011 E38 42.366 197km SARAH: It's good to be back on the road as I feel our trip has really lost momentum with the car being in the garage for a week and me being sick. I'm also missing camping and cooking our own food. Eating out is easy but I'm now tired of it and I'm looking forward to more camping friendly countries. We'd missed a visit from Brenda and Taco but they ...

THE RETURN OF PHILIP, BLUE NILE FALLS AND THE LONGEST DRIVE EVER! 19 May 2008 Day 79 Bahir Dar - Addis Ababa (National Hotel) 609Km SARAH: I woke up not feeling very well with aching muscles. We had decided to try to drive to Addis and see the Blue Nile Falls in one day so we were up at 5:30am. Just as we were leaving we got the surprise of our lives as we saw Philip and his broken motorbike arrive!! He had had the bike repaired in Khartoum and had ridden it...

A SERIOUS WOBBLE AND SHUDDER - CAR PROBLEMS AND WET WASHING 17 May 2008 Day77 Gonder - Bahir Dar (Ghion Hotel camping) 173Km BRUCE: Well today was a bad day from start to finish. We left Gonder late which is a story in itself and ended up in Bahir Dar and not Lalibela which is another story, but I will start with the first. The Belegez Pension was a great place to stay and we got a good nights rest and I was up at 6 ready for the day. Wrote some blog stuff, ...

SIMIEN MOUNTAINS 12 May 2008 Day 72 Gonder - Sankaber camp (Simien Mountians) 134 Km SARAH: You know you've stayed in one place too long when everyone in town knows who you are, what car you drive and where you're staying! It was definitely time for us to leave the Terara Hotel and after our usual morning stop at the Bizwati café for some delicious tea and cake we left for Debark for trekking in the Simien mountains. The drive there took 3 hours on dirt...

BUSH CAMP AND A MAN WITH A BIG GUN! 8 May 2008 Day 68 Wad Medani - Ethiopia (Bush camp) 483km BRUCE: The drive to the border was easier than we expected as the road is now tarred the whole way now. The border process was also really straight forward - just stamp the carnet, stamp the passport and you are out of Sudan. There is no fence, no boom, no nothing, just a dry river bed …and you are in Ethiopia! The change is immediate and massive with lots of ...