Ghost riders are sometimes visible over Wichita, Kansas, driving automobiles, flying airplanes, or riding horses. Here we have something similar over Africa, with a grimacing ghost rider sporting horns and a beard in central African sitting behind a steering wheel, but mounted on a horse, while another ghost rider seems to scoot along on Madagascar, his head extending up to Zanzibar, his bottom just touching the island, while he clutches a steering wheel. A third ghost rider seems to follow the Central African ghost rider, riding a horse on the African Southwest Coast. This picture has been kept up for months by CNN's satellite agency AccuWeather as the main African satellite photo. Perhaps the Central African Ghost Rider symbolizes Tanzania riding after Zanzibar, which is a Tanzanian island off the Swahili Coast of Africa.
P.S. Oct 3, 2008 - The next day I looked overhead from the ground in Wichita and was treated to a cloud complex forming a ghost rider tooling along in a motorized boat with an elaborate windshield featuring a driver in shades behind it that was giving me a thumbs-up sign. The motor on the boat appeared to be a big lovely bottom functioning like a jet drive. So there you are...just as you think you are doing pretty well about it, along comes the devil in a speedboat. It was the first motorboat ghost rider I have seen, and seems to have been a response to my stories about the kind of ghost riders typically observed over Wichita: ghosts on airplanes, autos, and on horseback. In addition, I may have seen them on motorcycles. It was the reply of the Spirit of the Divine Wind to "Can you top this?", issued as a typical "I-see-you, do-you-see-me?" Ouija-board type response to my web page, but this time coming on directly from above as seen from the ground.

Tripod blocked access to my home page on Tripod with another page that was sponsored by four outfits, including WIRED, WhoWhere, Rhapsody, and Gamesville. I noted that I had neglected to include these 4 outfits on my web pages, and that these are excellent links, so I added them to my web pages and backups. Then the cloud cover responded by showing me like an angel with my wings spread over where I reside in Wichita, Kansas, facing a peckerheaded requester. Note how the Great Spirit of the Southwest seems to indicate that it is a sucker for me. From other pictures and so forth I gather that there is also a hunger to see a newer, fresher picture of me up front on my home page than my old 2000 AD image, which makes me look a bit too much like a serious gremlin.

Yesterday TRIPOD brought down the curtain on my Tripod web pages, as explained above, and today they are still blocked, so that they cannot be read. Coincidentally, the cloud cover shows a little figure from Wichita getting in the eye of another figure in profile to the East and featuring a trunk-like "Republican" nose or sighting telescope. For the time being, my web pages are accessible via AngelCities and S5 at
http://greenwdks.angelcities.com/home.html
and at http://greenwood.s5.com/home.html only.
It will be quite a challenge to move everything from Tripod to my new 1 GB memory chip and then up to some other system. Remapping branches from Tripod to elsewhere will also be a time-consuming exercise. Currently most of my home brances from other memory systems on the web lead to my home page on Tripod. I am uncertain concerning Tripod's motive for blocking my web pages.