it's been hard not to get high, erm I mean I've been aloft so long.. ...that I can never properly be described as "down to earth"
Dear Fellow Citizen of Planet Earth...
I have to confess to not really caring about the planet. The resources I need to consume to feed my addiction to and insatiable desire and need for O3 is going to bring humanity down with me. Following is my travel schedule so far for 2007. The high O3 content flights are marked in red. Short intercity flights provide shorter and less intense highs, but I have included them anyway. If you think this list is long? Well the actual journey has been FAR LONGER than this stupid little list.
I have to confess to not really caring about the planet. The resources I need to consume to feed my addiction to and insatiable desire and need for O3 is going to bring humanity down with me. Following is my travel schedule so far for 2007. The high O3 content flights are marked in red. Short intercity flights provide shorter and less intense highs, but I have included them anyway. If you think this list is long? Well the actual journey has been FAR LONGER than this stupid little list.
| November Harare Cape Town October | Zimbabwe |
| Windhoek | Namibia |
| Johannesburg | |
| Paris | France |
| Pretoria | |
| Kgaladi Frontier Park | |
| Uthukela Mun District | |
| Pretoria | |
| September | |
| New York | USA |
| Pretoria | |
| Johannesburg | |
| Cape Town | |
| East London | |
| Pretoria | |
| August | |
| Cape Town | |
| Kinshasha | DRC |
| Pretoria | |
| Lusaka | Zambia |
| Pretoria | |
| Eastern Cape | |
| Kimberley | |
| Pretoria | |
| July | |
| Bouake | Cote D'Ivoire |
| Johannesburg | |
| Cape Town | |
| Johannesburg | |
| Pretoria | |
| Accra | Ghana |
| June | |
| Cape Town | |
| Buffalo City Heiligendamm | Germany |
| Cape Town | |
| May | |
| Abuja Johannesburg Hanoi | Nigeria Vietnam |
| Cape Town | |
| Johannesburg | |
| Cape Town | |
| April | |
| Bhisho | |
| Tshwane | |
| Johannesburg | |
| Paris | France |
| Khartoum & Juba | Sudan |
| Johannesburg Dar Es Salaam Sandton | Tanzania |
| March | |
| Cape Town | |
| Dar Es Salaam | Tanzania |
| Pretoria | |
| Algiers | Algeria |
| Pretoria | |
| Riyadh | Saudi Arabia |
| Pretoria | |
| Accra | Ghana |
| Cotonou | Benin |
| February | |
| Cape Town | |
| Pretoria | |
| Cape Town January Addis Ababa Davos | Ethiopia Switzerland |
So a few words to the wise... Always travel in style... My R408,000,000 Boeing Business Jet is the business. It costs a mere R41,250 per hour to run... These days with the cost of fuel it's a tad more to be honest. On the first trip ever we had to turn around and burn 15 tons of fuel before we could land! So the pilot went flew round and round FOR THREE HOURS while I slept and the planet wept.Generating sufficient O3 at low altitudes can be difficult. The best results I have obtained have been after telling the security detail in my convoy to "drive like hell and stop for nothing" If you then recline, plug in the ipod and turn the air conditioning on HIGH the scenes outside can seem like a movie on a long flight... replete with blaring sirens and blatant disregard for the law. Blimey, I can't remember when last I stopped at a traffic light!
Your President
T Mbeki
