today

Today has been a very bad day.
Started with my memory card freezing up on my camera, think I have lost all data over the last 5 days all of Zanzibar.
Kumuka are stopping our trip in Arusha for safety reasons which is great, what is not great is that we mnow have to sort ourselves out.
Next news is that when I had just finished smiling at a young man fixing his bike on the side of the road, did not wave out the window which was just as well, Pete our driver swereve for an out of control oncoming truck, just missed my head, could feel the air between us just, truck scrapped along our truck, hit the truck that was in front of it and both truckes ccarreared down to a river bank, no doubt killed instantly ans another person in our truck saw the result of one of them, cab all smahed in. I was in shock looking out the other side, the young man with his bike was no longer there, bike in a million pieces and out of control truck had gone over him and taken him down the bank. In shcok a bit for our lives being swpeared and the poor guy who dies along with the other truck driver that was not at fault - at least 3 deaths, we did not hang around.
In Arusha now and have just purchaesd a flight from Kilomanjaro int airportr to Nairobi to coneect with our original Cairo flight leavinng Nairobi. Should be safe in the airport for a few hours. Had to use our US $ as wouldn't take credit card $US444 for a 1 hour flight. Best we can do and safest option at the moment. Flights sitll leaving Cairo. Hope they still will on 13/1. We are going to crater and Serengetti for a couple of days so had to make some decisions today about waht to do. Looking forward to our holiday getting back on track

PS Don been unwell for 3rd day today also - stomack problem, got the shits as well but not too bad. Refusing to take anitbiotics as it might upset his drinking, so I have decided he is not too bad.