If at First You Don't' Succeed!!!

The Shear magnitude of what we did yesterday is lost in the photos, but to call Leopard's Hill a road would be a gross over-representation. As a 4X4 trail though, Absolutely magnificent!! Steep inclines, Super-steep hill descents(whoever built the road worked on the principle of the shortest distance between two points is best. In other words if there is a hill in the way, go over it, don't wind, go straight over!!), awesome dry riverbeds to cross(the road just drops away into them), three wheel rock walking, thick unspoilt bush and awesome views made the 6hour foray into the unknown one of the coolest things I've ever done!! Sadly, 3hrs and 30km into the journey, efforts to make it to Lusaka were brought to a rather unceremonius halt by a grader stuck in the middle of the road, on one of the hillsides. The only signs of the driver were fresh footprints in the dirt and the warm engine. An hour earlier would've seen us get past. But with a bank on one side and a shear drop on the other, the only way past would've been to move the blade. Since I know nothing about grader operation or if it is even possible to move the blade when the thing is broken down, the only option was to turn around(interesting enough) and return along the track we had come along.
As it stands, we've made two attempts at the route and have doubled the distance each time. Third time will be the charm. Fo' Sho'!!. And the fourth is from town to the river by bicycle, motorbike and support vehicle later in the winter. If the fish traders can do it, so can we..hahaha!! Sadly though (and at the risk of sounding like I built Africa), by the end of June, they say they'll have revamped it so although it'll be exciting, it'll have nothing on what we have already seen.
Willy still hasn't shown up to give me an article of note, so I have routed around in his stuff and managed to pull one out for you. This one was clearly just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Castrated officer on mend

A WATER affairs officer who was castrated by his workmates in suspicious circumstances in early September is reported to be out of danger and is recovering steadily. A police source told Zana that Francis Musonda had since been discharged from Kasama General Hospital and is currently recovering at his home in Mporokoso.Police said even the two officers suspected of having castrated their colleague have been put on police bond.He said the case is coming up in court on November 19, where details of how the whole episode occurred, will be disclosed. On September 26, the castrated officer was invited for dinner by two of his workmates who consequently pounced on him and castrated him.-Zana