Writing this at the Hotel 520 in Ogoja. We will leave soon for the border with Cameroon. All my fears about Nigeria have been dispelled as we have met some very helpful, friendly people and the roads have not been too bad.
The few days we spent with Sam in Abuja were a very welcome break, if extremely busy, and we were fortunate to be able to stay in a real Nigerian home and have home cooking, by Sam's excellent house girl, Mercie. We had the luxury of a driver to take us to the Cameroon High Commission for visas and the use of one of Sam's cars to collect them the same afternoon.
The real bonus was having the new friendship of a man of substance in the capital city to help us to make a balloon flight without actually being along due to his illness.
The driving yesterday was interesting and fairly easy in spite of Chris having a short night before leaving. We are into the Harmattan and the Enterprise is full of sand.
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