WE GO AGAIN
KEVIN McCALLUM: All set for a brutal eight-day adventure, come rain or shine
It was raining when I landed in Cape Town on Wednesday night. It was raining when I landed in Cape Town last week on Wednesday. I am like the rain god from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the truck driver whom rain clouds love so much that they follow him wherever he goes.Rob McKenna, the rain god, has never seen the sun. He has kept a log book to show that the rain has never left him. "And as he drove on, the rain clouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays," wrote Douglas Adams."All the clouds knew that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him."Perhaps I should come to Cape Town every Wednesday, bringing rain and smiles to the parched masses down here. They crave for the heavens to open. I watched a man wash his hands in a toilet under a running tap. The man behind him almost fainted at the sou...
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