Tuesday, October 30, 2007

I have been aloft so long....


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.

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

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