Cycling in Malawi During the Rainy Season

It is a blog full of great news!

First, we had another article and photo published in the Toronto Star click here to read about our Kilimanjaro adventure.

Next, I am back!  9 days and a lot of pain killers and antibiotics later and I am riding again.  I lost a lot of hours, but still hanging on to the lead.  Dave has been amazing pulling me along as I draft behind him in strong headwinds.  Things are going well, I am a little weaker, but should be back to full form in a few days.

We have left Tanzania and are now travelling through Malawi.  We are hoping to visit a Plan Project in Lilongwe, so we will keep you posted on all of the great work that they are doing here.  Just today we saw 3 different signs showing the community projects that they are doing here near Kasunga.  We are really looking forward to visiting another site.  We haven’t been to one since Egypt.  Problems arose in Sudan and it didn’t work out due to logistical problems, Kenya was of coarse a no go since we had to bypass the country and the dates just didn’t work out for Tanzania.  So, we are itching to see some more of the cause that we are riding for and share our experience with you all.

Dave is still EFI (cycling every fabulous inch) of the Tour d’Afrique.  There are only about 11 people left, so I am very proud of him.  A lot can happen in a month and a half, so I am doing my best to keep him healthy, some really strong people have recently lost it due to illness.  Ahhh, Africa, It really takes its toll on you!

I wish I could say that there is a lot of news, but here on the TDA every day is pretty much the same.  We wake up (in the rain a lot more here in Malawi and Tanzania) and ride hard all day.  Today was a great day 104 km in 3hrs and 40 min, so we had the awesome opportunity to visit an internet cafe finally and share our stories with you.

I want to thank you all for your support with my cellulitice.  Janet, you are my cycling hero, so to know you had it and it made you Bambi, made me relax and ride the truck with a little more sanity. I can’t believe how many of you had gone through this before!  Thanks for all of your messages,  I wish I could email all of you, but internet is slow, always slow.

We will try to keep updating more regularly, hopefully there will be more internet cafes as we travel south.  Next trip, we are going satellite all the way!

Happy April Fools Day, Deb and Dave

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