You you give me one pin!

With my bike back together I was keen to press on, not without first saying goodbye to Derek-what  top man! ! Thankyou so much for accomodating  me and inviting me to everything ! I had such an awesome time in Lusaka !! Awesome times! Hopefully David Livingston can appear in Alaska too! Thankyou also to Peter for rescuing me off the side of the road and also giving me a place to stay -Thankyou! I cycled to the first police road stop and hitched from there and then did the same from Chongwe in a truck - 30 kwatcha all up -then stayed at the same place I stay last time - oh and I got a haircut on the way and the title - something a guy yelled at me -he was demanding 1 kwatcha -I have since made it into a song to the tune of - boom boom chukalakalaka boom!

I stopped to get a haircut at the local barber I think he used diesel to try and lubricate the blunt clippers

Hitched a ride back to where my bike broke down - Bike on the back of the big semi

Saying goodbyes to Derek who helped me so much and introduced me to a whole lot of cool people around Lusaka a great social scene - Cheers Mate!Leaving Lusaka with my new gears

Coma coma coma Camilian

Keeping an eye on my bike while Fitty prepares to cut my hair

Hitching a ride back to where I left off Hold on !

Great people-Great Works

This was a great lesson for my cycle trip - I realised that I needed a supply network in advance of where im heading and to replace the parts at regular intervals- There was a public holiday in South Africa then the weekend so difficult to get things in a hurry - Luckily  I found Scott from  bicycletribe.co.za who went out of his way to help me be sourcing the hard to find parts then picking them up and sending them to me asap by DHL -Thankyou so much Scott - for going out of your way to help me ! A great seed you sowed!! I was apparent that I was going to be in Lusaka for a few days so I could check the place out - it was so awesome to be staying with Derek and Julia again because I was invited to all these events , parties and breakfasts, I met so many cool people doing so many great works! Firstly Brendan Clark who lives between Australia and Lusaka and his wife Rachael - they had just had their wedding at The Victoria Falls  - The photos looked amazing! They also had adopted the cutest - I presume Zambian girl -who I think was also an orphan - these guys are cool! From our conversation I picked up that these guys were here to make a difference - They were going out for dinner with the cheif of the Lusaka area the night I met them  - the cheif commanded a 4 or 5 hundred US dollar  appearance gesture  - anyway  if thats what it takes so be it . Brendan showed me around the Malnutrition ward at the hospital - where  he is working to change and raise the standards up  too many babies are dying their  unnecessarily  -I saw what I saw and was quite moved when I considered  Brendans work and commitment - I think what you are doing is AWESOME! ! There was a party that night and I met a whole lot more awesome people working for different organisations   - Shelby who I met told me that she had been living out in a village community for about 2 years - she wasfrom Boston - wow what a contrast and what an experience!  Wait wait next night the Elephant Orphanage Charity night - what a ripper where I met Rachael ,Tanya , Dan the man , Mark , Sport  who all work with baby elephants that have lost their parents from poaching or other means -Dan and Mark were pioneering a protective shoe for an elephant who had been hacked at with a machete only its back and lost some of its function with its back leg so was dragging its foot scraping the skin off and turning it septic - Dan was originally a Horse farrier and Mark a metal sculptor - what an awesome combination! I was lucky enough to be able to hang out with these guys and to be amoungst the cutest baby elephants ! So cute

Funny times on the dance floor

Dr Dan and One of His and Marks shoes the crafted to help this orphan Elephants Foot heal from dragging on the ground !

If you are ever in Lusaka ! Check these guys out - So welcoming and a great cause !

Tanya and one of the orphan elephants

Mark one of the shoe sculptors in the back with the two ele's and myself in the front - We had to wear the green coats to keep it uniform for the baby elephants

Go Dan !!

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The guys in the river were bagging up sand -I stopped to have a look and before long there was a crowd around  -its funny having white skin you really stand out and sometimes feel quite white - its so cute - all day long the little kids run out fron their huts and houses yelling and screaming "How are you ? How are you ? How are you?"  Then then kids down the road hear and all run out yelling and screaming -sometimes from both sides of the road at once ! Or the yell mizungou which means white man or one time im pretty sure I herd this woman just say white another time this guy says to me "What are you doing in Africa white man"  -These guys were selling their pig under a tree just cutting bits off weighing it and making a profit -another group were making furniture a doors with handtools- I found a lodge to stay and ordered a t bone steak - ahh meat at last!

People taking the sand from the river for building and some kids checking me out

Natural living

Some guys making doors and mattress holders out out wood using hand tools

Washing my hands after breakfast I think

Staying with a Zambian family - Very special!

Mate heres a cold coke and we just killed a pig if you want some meat sorry for making you feel a bit uneasy its just your white and well that means money

A Beautiful family  - I gave the Dad some Berroccas to say thanks

Everpresent-All powerful -All knowing -All loving GOD -Soap-frybread -Cup of Rioboos tea

I just rode 142.8 kilometers! Check it out on #strava: http://app.strava.com/activities/46355404 Constantly wowed -Love the scripture "Ask and you shall receive , seek and you shall find , knock and the door will open! "Started the day as my firsr day back cycling in about a week -walked over the road to see if I could buy some sort of food from the shops and to check out this guy who pretty much hadn't stopped yelling and making a racket since the night before I mean it was seriously laughable im talking a lot of yelling! In a quiet little village  we all had quite a few chuckles about it -I didnt know quite what to expect -- he was drunk and when he did speak his voice deepened  which Is what I thought he would be like -  anyway on the road again just keen to make a start .Stunning weather again -a few hills to go up and over for a change which was nice - at the end of the day I stopped up the top of this hill to take a photo and to have a drink -this girl came and asked if I was alright I went to approach her and this little kid ran off when I asked her for directions she couldn't really give me an answer  her dad came out and invited me to stay - it looked like such a cool place to stay so I said yes -I had been wanting to check out one of these villages -so this was definitely an answer to a request of mine! It was so awesome to be amoungst these humble people and to observe how they live  -I was given a chair and table and before long some shema with beans and fry bread  - I was quite keen for some meat so I asked if I could buy a goat off him and kill it - he wasnt as keen as I was about that idea -I asked if I could have a wash so they put a bucket of water inside a hut with a wodden plank to stand on - I couldnt find my soap and felt like a good scrub -I was so stoked when this woman appeared with some soap also!!! Its the little things- it was probably the last  thing I expected but a thing I was hoping for -Thank God.we sat around  they smoked a reefer rolled in some ordinary paper -the kids played while the goats licked the swet off my bike  the woman went  to fetch the water and everything had its time and place as the sun went down - I thought to myself gee this is special  as the stars came out -what beautiful people and what a beautiful
Place.

Some guys fishing in the river and a nice serene place to breath in the fresh air

Dried fish for sale

Beautiful and green

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