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Total Zimbabwe Dollars
1 USD = 37 ZWD (1999)
879 ZWD * (1 USD /37 ZWD) ~= 23.76 USD
Total spent in US dollars: 23.76 USD + 4000.83 USD
Total spent in US dollars: 4024.59 USD
Lots of my expenses are unknown, I was not keeping track and I wrote this part of my journal in 2017.
Days before trip
5/15/1999
990.00 USD - Vancouver, Washington – Bike Africa Tour
~6/10/1999
37.50 USD - Vancouver, Washington – Travel Immunization (This might just be the prescription cost)
6/14/1999
2391.21 USD – Vancouver, Washington – Flight Portland, Oregon to Johannesburg, South Africa
6/16/1990
413.12 USD – Vancouver, Washington –Johannesburg, South Africa to Harare, Zimbabwe
6/14/1999
35.00 USD – Vancouver, Washington – Flight Harare, Zimbabwe to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Pre-trip total = 3875.83 USD
Day 0, Friday, July 23, 1999
125.00 USD – Portland, Oregon – Cost to take my bike on the plane to Zimbabwe, Africa.
Total daily expenses 125.00 USD
Day 1, Saturday, July 24, 1999
Unknown expenses
Day 2, Sunday, July 25, 1999
Unknown – Harare, Zimbabwe - Taxi to Museum and back to Airport
Unknown – Harare, Zimbabwe – Chicken giblets at Chicken Inn fast food
50 ZIM – Harare, Zimbabwe – Handmade post card
Total daily expenses 50 ZWD – food, postcards and unknown expenses
Day 3, Monday, July 26, 1999
94 ZIM - Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – Telephone call to airport to see if bike had arrived yet
Unknown - Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – Museum
Unknown - Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – Beers at a bar
Total daily expenses 94 ZWD – mostly unknown expenses
Day 4, Tuesday, July 27, 1999
Unknown - Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – Postcards and money exchange
Unknown expenses
Day 5, Wednesday, July 28, 1999
45 ZIM – Zimbabwe countryside butcher – A steak, 2 cokes and corn bread.
Total daily expenses 45 ZWD – food and maybe more unknown expenses
Day 6, Thursday, July 29, 1999
Unknown expenses
Day 7, Friday, July 30, 1999
100 ZWD - Mashavuka caves – Two wooden masks
50 ZWD - Mashavuka caves – Wooden elephant
20 ZWD - Mashavuka caves – two necklaces
20 ZWD – Store in a Town on Kumalo communal Land – three cokes
Unknown – town on Kumalo communal Land – beers
Total daily expenses 190 ZWD – Souvenir, drinks and some unknown expenses
Day 8, Saturday, July 31, 1999
Unknown - Turn off to Rhodes grave – Drum (this one had bugs in it years later)
Unknown – Countryside Butcher - steaks and sadza
Unknown – Train to Victoria falls - two castle beers
Unknown expenses
Day 9, Sunday, August 1, 1999
100 ZWD - Victoria Falls – Wooden carved bird
unknown - Victoria Falls –T-shirt, shorts, film and postcards
100 ZWD and Unknown expenses for clothes and postcards
Day 10, Monday, August 2, 1999
I bought a T-shirt, fanny pack and disk of photos from the Bungi jumping place
Unknown expenses
Day 11, Tuesday, August 3, 1999
Unknown expenses
Day 12, Wednesday, August 4, 1999
400 ZWD - Dete at the craft store - walking stick, basket and drum
Unknown - Hwange national park - four beers
400 ZWD and Unknown expenses - crafts
Day 13, Thursday, August 5, 1999
Unknown expenses
Day 14, Friday, August 6, 1999
Unknown expenses
Day 15, Saturday, August 7, 1999
Unknown expenses
Day 16, Sunday, August 8, 1999
Unknown - Harare, Zimbabwe - rock (green (verda) and black stones) souvenirs
Unknown - Harare, Zimbabwe - Send postcards to the USA
Unknown - Harare, Zimbabwe - Bought souvenirs at the airport
Unknown expenses
Day 17, Monday, August 9, 1999
Unknown expenses