People Who Joined Us On Our Travels #1

#1. Neil McCallum (also known as "Moon")

#2 Lucy Honey

Photos of Karen #8

Karen, Valley De La Luna, Argentina

Karen, Rio De Janiero, Brazil

. . . guess who?

Cheetah

We recently visited a small Zoo in Samaipata, Bolivia, the highlight of which was a 5 year old ginger howler monkey named Cheetah. Cheetah, a girl, was very friendly and spent much of the time sitting on my shoulders as we were taken on our tour. Once back at the zoo-house Karen, jealous of the camaraderie between me and my new simian friend, went on the offensive and treated Cheetah to an intensive rub down. (see above) Now, I am no expert in the sexual tactics of howler monkeys but at this point Cheetah definitely began to act in a very amorous manner. Placing her long hairy arms around Karen´s neck, Cheetah looked into Karen´s eyes and, like a dirty-ginger-simian-lebso, went in for the lunge! A black lip-less mouth headed straight towards Karen´s face with a tiny black monkey-tongue poked out ready for a swift oral probing. Karen, surprisingly not into snogging animals and with little regard for Cheetah´s feelings tried to pull away, but it wasn´t that easy. Cheetah was insistent and, if I am honest, reminded me of the many failed lunges of my youth by just lunging and lunging and lunging until she had to be physically dragged away. Tainted by the experience we left very soon afterwards.