hi everyone, thanks for your comments, it feels like you are traveling with us. Peter's blog has been updated more often and he is a very interesting writer. His blog address is posted on an early blog of ours, check it out! We apologize for the delay in posting and hope you are not worried about us. all is good. I think the last posting was from Kenya, we have poor or no internet access since then and have traveling through the poorest sections of Africa. The biggest suprise was Ethiopia, it is absolutly beautiful, the drive was most amazing and probably one of the best we have ever done. The part we traveled through was just after the rainy season, it is very high in altitude (we saw 10,000 ft on the gps), the road was newly paved the entire length,as the country is very poor there was little trafic but but great numbers of people walking, day and night. Then we crossed onto Sudan. This was a HARD country to live in!! What a contrast!!! Although the road was good the land was barren and parched. Only 2% of the countries land is able to be cultivated. Much poorer than Ethiopia and sanitation is just not even thought about. Now in Egypt via the dirtiest ferry boat from Sudan you could imagine. So nice to be in a nice hotel for few days. The people are nice but I had my pocket picked the first day walking through town, then the guy had the nerve to try and sell my wallet back to me, it's a good thing there was nothing of value in it or he would have taken that and throw the wallet away. We'll be MUCH more careful.. Ron