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extra two days hot driving if they went around the lake instead of across it.
One af the Land Cruisers fell through the crust.
They did. uf course, eventually pull it out. but it illustrated how perilous the desert can be. Most of the time, they wouldn't travel during the day, but would dig pits aver which they parked the Land Cruisers and would spend the heat of the day reading books, playing chess or practicing bad French for the occasion of having to rescue “some French guy" who cradled his motorcycle in the desert (they did).
Johns also spent time with the Afar. Uved with them in their portable huts, ate their food, ft was some of the most delicious goat he ever tasted, he said, as it was slow cooked in sealed earthen ovens and rubbed with Berber spice — a mixture of red pepper saffron, salt and other spices,
Johns eventually traveled the length of the rift in East Africa from Djibouti to Malawi —spending two years in Kenya — and also into South Africa where he met Nelson Mandela and covered the transition from Apartheid.
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