Road to Cape Town

Hi friends, I am writing this on the 26th of April 2018. Today I've been on the road for exactly 285 days. I'm sitting in a computer store & cyber cafe in downtown Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi. As always, I've been cycling a lot recently. No detours around great lakes this time. The trajectory since the last update is a straight line from Nairobi, across Tanzania, and along Lake Malawi. It's time for some...

Dear friends, I'm sitting in a cyber cafe in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. The cyber cafe is located in my favorite kind of building to get lost in: an African mall. In contrast to the western-style shopping malls in the Nairobi suburbs, most notably Westgate shopping mall, this one is a concrete and steel labyrinth of flashing neon lights, phone shops, barbers, bookshops, and cyber cafes that also offer help with visa applications. So what have I...