Hi All,
After taking the extremely remote Lake Turkana route up into Ethiopia, I immediately bumped into these guys
This is the first country I have seen civilains with AKs (or really any guns) and suddenly they are everywhere.
After all this time on the continent, I finally got to hold one too. Much smaller and lighter than I expected. It was loaded while I was playing with it too.
More here: http://theroadchoseme.com/into-ethiopia
I made a stop at a Mursi village before driving myself into a huge gas shortage that is impacting all of Ethiopia. I manage to find some, and a few times I buy from the black market out of containers. It does the trick, the Jeep doesn't seem to complain no matter what I put in the tank
More here: http://theroadchoseme.com/the-mursi-people
After swinging through the capital of Addis Abba to pickup a couple more visas I have driven into the seldom-visted country of Djibouti, and I immidiately feel like I have driven onto another planet.
This is like nothing I've ever seen before
More here: http://theroadchoseme.com/lake-abbe-pt-1
and here: http://theroadchoseme.com/lake-abbe-pt-2
Although I'm getting close to the end, it feels like there is still a lifetime of adventure in front of me.
Next I go back into Ethiopia before pushing through Sudan and into Egypt, the final destination!
-Dan