I wish you could see the fresh road burn...but you wouldn't want to anyway.

I am telling you this because i haven´t returned ´home´ to tell my lovely wife yet...and somehow it is easier to tell an anonymous screen how stupid i can be.

We have been living in the bairro (nice word for slum) this week with VERY nice family and trying to learn about Mozambican culture and life. It has been educational and at times fun. Unfortunately it has also been in the high 90´s and above every day and needless to say we don´t have ac, in fact they don´t have running water. Every morning they (the teenagers of the house) go fetch it from up the ´street´ which looks more like a washed out garbage dump. And the biting ants! They think we are tasty. Anyway, today is our second to last day and the man of the house left to do some business so i got tired of sitting around (which we have done a lot of) and hopped on the motorbike to come and check email (can i tell you there was nothing important, of course not).

Well, listening to the stupid kid that lives inside my head i took off at a nice clip and needed to dodge some speed bumps....i know, right there you know i am in trouble. So i look to the correct side of the street to ride the six inch flat surface between the bumps and the curb but there was a car there so i looked up the road and didn´t see anyone coming and veered the other (WRONG) side to take advantage of that smoothness....and as i got nearer i noticed another motorcycle doing the same thing on his correct side...rats. So i went for the curb thinking maybe the bike could bump over but 9 inches at a slight angle is tough! The bike slid out from under me and i went half running, falling onto the sidewalk. Sheesh.

First for my folks who read this i am fine, really. I have been given some nice scrapes but they will serve me well as reminders not to be stupid. Second...the bike is fine too! 2 scratches and and started right back up.

All this to say, i have to go explain to Cami how right she was when she told me not to go, "just wait, it isn´t worth it". She was right! And prove to her again that she married a grown juvenile. Have a great weekend everyone!

PS This is my first EVER lay down of any motorcycle. I haven´t even had anything happen close jumping out in the quarry! Sheesh.