The decision was partly taken away from me as my bicycle got stolen in front of the library. Though I could have bought another bicycle (Katherina had already called here friends and I could have had a bicycle for a good price - thank you very much Katherina) but I took it as I a sign and decided to stop cycling and to move on to Africa.

Sitting at the Inner Harbor in Victoria enjoying the warming sun I thought about my further travel plans. First I thought that I would make my way to the US, visiting Seattle and Boston and then go on to Africa. In Africa I would have gone for some weeks on a organized Truck-Safari from Nairobi down to the Victoria-Falls and then travel independently back to Nairobi and up to Ethiopia. For a change, that would hade been not on a bicycle but on public busses. The idea was then to go to Egypt and from there making slowly my way back to Europe, this time on bicycle again.