On the Road to Austria

What are the odds of "randomly" meeting somebody from your neighbour village in Europe in the middle of nowhere – ie the African bush in Adamawa?

Apparently pretty high, otherwise we would not have met a couple from Unterwolfsbach, Lower Austria in Malarba, the trucker’s night stop nearby Ngaoubela.

Peter and Sabine are about to tour around Africa with their lorry “August”, a 4wd Mercedes 1311 from 1966.
What a pleasant and unexpected surprise!

After a while of reflection they decided to stay in Ngaoubela overnight where we learnt more about their tour from Austria to South Africa via Eastern Africa and back home via Western Africa including quite a number of exciting stories and plenty of photos. In the end we discovered that them and me were about to go to Ngaoundéré for some reasons so they gave me a lift – my first ride on a truck – and what an awesome one! On the road we found some of the “outstanding” lorry drivers besides their trucks which fell off track… fortunately Peter is an excellent driver, so August could bring us sound to the Camp Norvegien in Ngaoundéré.

Check out http://www.peterunfried.spaces.live.com/ for the rest of their journey!!