[wardaddy]

In another life SWIM lived and worked and raised hell in Colombia Jamaica Belize Brasil Sierra Leone Nigeria Liberia Zambia and Burma and Haiti

Emphasis Colombia Sierra Leone and Brasil

Land Rover products were our mode of transport in the bush

Fly to dirt strip and get in Land Rover and beat your spine to death

Land cruisers and Mitsubishi Monteros second and third place

And Soviet Neva jeeps which honestly were not bad....much better than Lada

I once drove a Land Rover 110 from Panama to Belize city enjoying a fairly hot El Salvador and a lit Nicaragua along the way

The Sandies were like there are counter revolutionaries down that highway

We’re like yeah the good guys though we didn’t voice that

We paid a lot highway informal tolls to whoever held the road

Including Americans standing around

Asking wtf are y’all doing here

Sierra Leone went from warm to blue hot and our geologist hit a land mine

Workers captured and killed or worse

I left and this was before the civil war truly cranked up

Land Rover versus land mine....fail

[MercyFlush]

I contracted to the Kenyans during a dustup with the Somalis. This one Somali POS had an SA 340 heli and I permanently borrowed it since he didn’t need it anymore. Beat the hell out of driving!