Why Chad? Why Inland ? Why !
Not anybody knows where Chad is. You, you’re on internet you can go to www.multimap.com for example, you can go to www.wikipedia.com or you’ve got an Atlas not far and open it.
When I was in College i’ve made a friend who was arriving from this country. Mandela was his hero, mine was Mahatma Gandhi. they still are. Now he wants to help his village and its children through a more supportive scholarship with the building of a dormitory.
Oil was found in Chad in 2003. The government and the world bank signed a new kind of agreement in Africa saying part of the oil’s profit of the country will be saved for social and education purpose. But Africa’s political situation is as unsustainable as sustainability is fashion in Europe… and we can say the leaders try very hard and with very much expenses to keep it as it is. So the savings are already spent in regards of national security to fight rebellious activities (if you haven’t been on any site or atlas, the west of the country host Darfur Refugees ) for more : http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/news/africa.html
Chad is big enough to able me to be far from this. there is no disruption at all of the planes schedule. So i’ll go to my friend’s village and would like to see more of the older ever found proto-human baptised Toumai. I like to start like that.
It will be my first step of a travel which will lead me to Kathmandu via a legendary road. This road passes by Lebanon, Iran, Afghanistan. Wonderful countries sometimes stroke by war. So why ? Just that the thought of unsafe roads after world wars and cold war drive me crazy. I want to go to India and Nepal through other countries like done Marco Polo and some others. If it was about local barbarians, gangs and what ever, fine ! but as West is proud of his many years of peace in its borders i’m not really about my country and all others making money with those “local” wars, oh sorry sustainable strategy involvement. That freaks me out !!! I ‘ve got a calm, quiet dream : walking, hitch-hiking, camel riding, cycling, coach passenger sometimes, sleeping away from hotel as often as possible, merging with other worlds. But some are not bother keeping quiet, they go shooting, they go firing, bombing. And it is so expensive in time and energy, they need to sustain it. In hatred matter the opponent team is easy to make react with the same kind of energy.
In my inner world borders others than oceans and mountains, even money, is quite hard to concieve. In facts borders for example are more symbols than real. It is our believe in them which make them real. Language/communication is enough as a border. For me walking the borders erase them as long as they are not too much of a stronghold.
