{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Jef le Saltimbanque","provider_url":"https:\/\/jef-le-saltimbanque.com\/en\/","author_name":"JJ ANEYOTA alias Jef le Saltimbanque","author_url":"https:\/\/jef-le-saltimbanque.com\/en\/author\/lesaltimbanque\/","title":"End of the journey - Jef le Saltimbanque","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BQh98yrRXT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jef-le-saltimbanque.com\/en\/2026\/03\/15\/end-of-the-journey\/\">End of the journey<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/jef-le-saltimbanque.com\/en\/2026\/03\/15\/end-of-the-journey\/embed\/#?secret=BQh98yrRXT\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;End of the journey&#8221; &#8212; Jef le Saltimbanque\" data-secret=\"BQh98yrRXT\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/jef-le-saltimbanque.com\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/jef-le-saltimbanque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/019188_SUDAFRICA.jpg","thumbnail_width":1600,"thumbnail_height":1200,"description":"No, no \u2014 not this journey. The one from\u00a02003\u20132004. Alain, my former travel companion, recently sent me the emails I had written at the time. Many readers of\u00a0The Blue Bandana\u00a0have wondered about the rest of the journey, since in the book I stop the story at the\u00a0Cape of Good Hope. I have very few notes from that period. After South Africa came\u00a0Swaziland\u00a0\u2014 where I badly injured a knee in a fall \u2014 and then\u00a0Mozambique, where I spent a month on a beach waiting for that same knee to recover (with a few dives along the way to observe whale sharks and manta rays). After that, I made my way to\u00a0Tanzania\u00a0via\u00a0Malawi. This email, and the ones I will publish over the coming days, recount that period \u2014 the time when, with the motorcycle out of service and my finances at their lowest, I had to make the decision to return home. Not without one final adventure in\u00a0Rwanda, which was then commemorating the tenth anniversary of the genocide. Enjoy the read. The End of the Journey The restart did not go well. A fall.An injured knee. Well\u2026 that\u2019s part of the journey. What really made me curse was being forced to stay [&hellip;]"}