Jinji Sadan

Hey to everyone. tomorrow I am starting my way in Africa, I was lucky to meet my friend,Pete, in Buenos  before the flight and he gave me a place to sleep and to plan my way and to have the time that I needed to think about my future in this big continent.

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In amazing hospitality Pete showed me the beautiful and western city of Cape Town in South Africa.

We saw many animals and I looked from above the beautiful table mountains the Cape of Good Hope (I need some hope…) where the 2 oceans (Atlantic and Indian) meet. Cape Town is one of my favorite cities that I ever been, really cool and easy going city, it remains me California. It’s not what I was expected from Africa and I had easy start and I know that from her it will be more challenging to me and “Amuna”. Since I finished America I am spending my time thinking about the new chapter of my journey in mixed feelings about it. I felt like almost 2 years ago before I started in Alaska I would like to share with you, my friends, a note that I wrote on the flight from America to Africa. I will write it her like I wrote in my diary, fresh from the pages. Sorry if it a little not in order but that how I am writing in my diary.

29\4\09 on the flight
We are about to take off and I got the weird feeling that I get before big and long flights. what a brilliant idea is that plan you are jumping to a box you it something and trying to get some sleep(there is always a baby that give me hard time) and after some hours you jump out from the plan and you are in new place that you never been.now they put a cartoon in the TV that showed me how to act in a case that this amazing box will have some “small problems” and you can see a calm and smiling guy walking like he is Clint istood in the wild west movie, walking in a plan that just crashed on the sea and jumping to the water this cartoon make it look easy like another day in the office…He looked like he did it hundreds of time (he is lucky guy). After 21 months in the continents of America (north and south) I am ready (I think) to start a new one. It’s hard to put this time in some words so I will do it in one word: Amazing. The menu started from the tundra of Alaska( I am still remember the first day more then I can remember yesterday) to the Rockies mountains in Canada, west coast of usa to Mexico and the hot countries of central America. The Caribbean coast of Colombia to the long and great Andes Mountains of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. And then for dessert I had Chile   and Argentina. This is how I like my dessert: with a lot of meat… after 30000km that I did with amuna in a world full of adventures and wild animals and amazing people that I meet on the road I feel that I am not only cycle around the world. I am cycling inside the world. Inside the people heart and soul, inside their dreams and fear. Inside my dream and fear. Inside new cloture that I can learn from it. People that have nothing and want to give you everything. I am cycling inside myself inside my body in heart. Some time I feel that my heart is full of love and it’s about to explode from my small body. The plan start to go up and I think to myself what a wonderful world we are living. I am looking of the small lights of the big city and the screen is showing our speed and altitude (he climbing really fast) and we have a small map of South America and our plan is there like we are the only ones in the sky. 8 hours of a flight its mean more or less 8 months of cycling (with no big mountains). It’s a nice thing to see the distance of the flight and think to myself that I did more than 3 times this distance and on my bicycle. And I am not good in math. Amuna is in a small bug in the luggage place and I hope she is ok and will be good after this flight.
In the airport there were people with mask on their faces I forgot about that flew that killing people in Mexico and I thought that it’s because I forgot to take a shower this morning…
#now we are above the ocean and they showing a movie in the name “forever strong” I really need to be strong before Africa (and also because the fucking baby that screaming) . This ocean is amazing so big and vast.
#close for landing ,I didn’t get some sleep and the movie was really bad, now its morning in Africa and I feel like tired and still in Argentina time (it 3 am there) and I see new maps on the screen. A world map and Africa map. In Africa map there is something special. When I looked in the north east of this map I could see a place that gave me a big smile (even after that baby) I saw it and its feel amazing. It was writing Tel Aviv.
Welcome to Africa
Love you all
Roei “jinji” sadan
Cape Town
South Africa
Africa
The world

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Tags: Africa, cape town, capetown, Country

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