We often heard about the kindness of strangers from other Overlanders and got experience it firsthand in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The drive from the border town of Moyale to Addis Ababa took 3 days. It started off with a very stressful border crossing on Ethiopian side – more on this in an upcoming blog post.

By the time border formalities were completed, it was almost 5pm but we did not want to spend the night here. We decided to push on and see how far we get. A few kilometres or good tar road later, the very familiar light brown gravel showed itself in the distance and we braced ourselves for another day of slow going.

We heard of these but did not imagine we would be privy to it. Until Addis, after a really hectic night having driven like 14 hours, sleeping awfully late and spending way too much of our budget out of desperation we walked onto the road checking out of our hotel and met Brook. He came to speak to us, ended up inviting us into his home for the next few days, showed us around, helped us out and left us completely overwhelmed by his kindness. All he wants in return is for us to “pay it forward” so in his words…”awesome!”