A day in the life
Travelling in Africa teaches you to be patient. For one thing, everything takes longer than it should, whether it be border crossing, buying something in a shop or taking 4 hours to drive 120km. Fortunately, the frustration is invariably followed by some mind-blowing spectacle, animal or circumstance.
You have to take the good with the bad, and trust that, eventually, it will pay off. As a small example, in the last 24 hours, I slept rough on top of giant rock formation in Spitzkoppe, Namibia, watching shooting stars and gazing at a night sky so clear that the milky way was a visible stellar haze. Then this morning one member of our group was taken to hospital with malaria (on top of the 3 people who had contracted hook worms).
Tomorrow I am off to the sand dunes of the Namib desert for some 80 km/h sandboarding. I wonder what's coming after that?
posted by Richard @ 2:11 AM
3 Comments:
Sounds like the trip of a lifetime. Glad you haven't been sick!
P.S. Baby is due today, but no signs of arrival as yet. Will keep you posted xxx
The hard thing will be to keep all these precious moments as vivid memories over the years. I don't know how you are ever going to be able to settle happily in one spot ever again!
Hecky
hey rich
wow great photos
jj
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