Central Africa/Congo Basin

The long night was a misery....quite cold, with the considerable dampness going right through our clothes. We had no room to move or stretch our legs; no place to put our heads; nothing to do but wonder why in the world we were there. The entire trip had turned into a horrible endurance contest.<br />
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And oh, I nearly forgot...sometime around 4:00 AM we illegally crossed the border into the Central African Republic. They shoot people for less than that in these parts. We were supposed to stop at the border station, but we were so late we moved to the center of the river, hopefully out of sight, and kept going.

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The long night was a misery....quite cold, with the considerable dampness going right through our clothes. We had no room to move or stretch our legs; no place to put our heads; nothing to do but wonder why in the world we were there. The entire trip had turned into a horrible endurance contest.

And oh, I nearly forgot...sometime around 4:00 AM we illegally crossed the border into the Central African Republic. They shoot people for less than that in these parts. We were supposed to stop at the border station, but we were so late we moved to the center of the river, hopefully out of sight, and kept going.

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