“Hello to all, I am writing from Zimbabwe while I can, as yesterday they cut the main phone, cell and internet lines country wide, probably to suppress news coverage. I got here two days ago, right during these elections, and they gave me quite a difficult time at customs. They thought that I was a journalist with all of my cameras, and wouldn’t let me go through unless I had a letter inviting me to the country, which I obviously did not have. My options were to leave it at customs, in a “locked” safe, or pay a $1500 deposit fee to take it with me. Here is the catch though, when I came to pick up my deposit afterwards, they were to pay me in Zim dollars (which ends up being trillions of dollars). No joke, I have a 5 billion dollar bill in my hand right now, and gazillion is an actual form of currency here. Pretty crazy that I am a gazillionaire here, literally. Impressed ladies? I would be…Anyways, 5 billion dollars is about one dollar here, so I am a $1000 millionaire. Long story short, some of my friends talked the customs guys down to $200, and I got my video camera back. But they have come by the lodge a few times to check on the camera to make sure it is still here and I am not doing guerilla journalism. Little do they know that I have like 4 cameras!!! Hahahah! “

that’s really lame for not properly typesetting currency.