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Africa Travel Journal 1, 2009

Pen drawing aboard bumpiest bus known to man.

First day we left the commercialised centre of Lilongwe on our way to Mzuzu in the North of Malawi. The bus departed 4 hours late, and shortly after setting off my brother leans over and tells me that the bus has no clutch. What followed was at least thirty bump starts, crying babies, chickens and livestock getting smellier and visions of ourselves stranded and camped out by the side of the bus. The predicted six-hour journey took 13. With no pee break. Hardcore.