@Karin – Making it to Dar es Salaam has really given me this wierd energy. It’s more or less halfway and is as if the balance of “possible” to “really happening” has finally shifted from being entirely possible but unstarted so many days ago, to “inevitable” now. It’s strange, but I haven’t yet met anyone on the route yet (car or backpacking), which I had thought to be almost a certainty by now. Perhaps I am just not hitting the same places at the right time – there are certainly enough tales in progress, from what I can tell.