What's this Blog About!?

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      This is my first blog and was initially just going to be the story of the trip I’m going to take - getting from home in Sweden to home in Zambia with a shoestring budget and a couple of months to kill before uni starts. Somewhere in the many vague discussions I’ve had with people about this trip someone suggested that, if I’m going to do something stupid, I should at least use it to raise money for a good cause.

      With stories of every man and his dog sailing solo around the world, and scaling Everest, I thought backpacking alone through Africa would be kinda easy. Then again with my complete lack of experience, money or any sense of direction I’m bound to run into adventures (problems) along the way. I’ve decided to skip the European countries and flying straight into Kenya and walk/hitch-hike/cycle/what ever it takes to get down to Zambia!

        So if you want to read stories of beautiful sunsets and missing wallets while giving to a school for the physically disabled in a remote part of Zambia called Mambilima. The money will go towards the students getting operations - many of them have conditions which could be corrected by an operation but just don’t have the money - an operation would be in the region of about $150 (though of course any amount is greatly appreciated).


What's to come (in no particular order):

-A bit of background on the school and how I got myself into doing this trip.

- My many attempts at raising the cash for the trip (cause airfares don’t pay for themselves!)

- A rough description of the route I plan to take.

- And finally the the trip itself (which I will obviously only start writing when I actually set off - middle of January. I’ll try to keep it as regular as possible with pictures and stories(from my experiences in Zambia there are internet cafés everywhere!)

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  1. CAMPUS BIG BANG!!!November 27, 2009 at 1:17 AM

    HEY SHMANE THIS IS SUCH AN AWESOME IDEA MAN!! WISH I CUD JOIN IN M SURE ITS GONA BE AN ADVENTURE 2 REMB!!!! "THE ADVENTURE NEVER ENDS!"

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