The long long winding road to Lusaka, Zambia

The truck departed the shores of Lake Malawi 2 days ago & we having been heading west ever since. 1100kms of winding pot hole riddled roads & we've still got more to go. Our route west to Lusaka is set for Livingstone & the Victoria falls. We're skirting along the top of Mozambique & Zimbabwe for political & security reasons mainly but also the risk of fuel shortages is too high to make the short trip through these 2 countries.

I've broken the monotony of the journey up into hour long time slots, treating myself to an hour of music, an hour reading, an hour of........ I've had time to read an entire book (a big feat for me), rekindle my Spanish (by writing my diary in Espanol) & almost listened to my entire collection of i-pod albums.

The countryside skips past the truck window, small villages, towns & lush green countryside all mostly bounce by as we lurch from pot hole to speed bump & back again.

We set out early again tomorrow so we can hit the falls before lunchtime & spend a few days relaxing in in Livingstone.

The malawi - Zambian border - as you can see (a busy busy place - NOT !)

Hoping not to get food poisoning !!