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10 July, Sunday Back to dust...

7/26/2011

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10 July Sunday Damaraland 
 
We say good bye to Juta, Birgit's mom and it is back in the car for me! I have to work on myself, because I really do not want to get back into dust, sticks for hair, black nails, rough
  hands and skin…I’m complaining. It will not be that bad once I’m in! Sammie is
happy and when the car door opens for the first time he is in. He is definitely
not staying behind again.

 We stop at Spar to buy 4 days of supplies for our trip through
Damaraland. I cannot go to the store without Andrej and Hugo. I love to have
them with me. They are excited about the menus and help make decisions. They of
course twist my arm for extra treats. We also have another problem: they twist
my arm usually not to buy something, “no we have more than enough!”and then
comes day 4? No we do not have enough!

 Namibia is beautiful beyond words. The last 4 years rain were
showered on her, and earlier this year at places more than 1000 mm – the most
rain since 1934. So, she has dressed lavishly with 2-3 feet high rich-golden
grass fields. I personally have never seen Namibia’s dry semi-desert areas like
this. Grass and green cover rocky hills and plains –areas once so dry that one could
not imagine the riches that were lying dormant in the soil – waiting, waiting,
waiting for rain. It is an insatiable feast for the eyes.
 
 We drive to the Northern Finger of God, a rock formation, close
to Khorixas. The more spectacular sandstone rock formation, also called Mukurob,
was in the south of Namibia, but it collapsed in December 1988, the result of a
sandstorm, leaving only debris behind. Mukurob was one of Namibia’s biggest
tourist attractions. 

An interesting anecdote: Nama oral tradition foretold that the power of the white man would collapse when Mukurob collapses. A few weeks after the collapse South Africa, Cuba and Angola signed the New York treaty which paved the wave for Namibia’s independence in 1989! 
 
We drive a few more hours and then start to look for a place to
bush camp round about 4 pm. Willie finds a dry river bed and with some bundu
  bashing find us a fine camping spot – our first river camping! We pull big logs
  closer and make a lion fire in the still of the night under a vast canopy of
  stars.
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    "There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. One only feels really free when one can go in whatever direction one pleases over the plains, to get to the river at sundown and pitch one's camp, with the knowledge that one can fall asleep
    beneath other trees, with another view before one, the next night." -
     Karen Blixen - Out of Africa, Kenya
    'Of course as I am reading this, I know that you DO get your visas and the container DOES get released, but oh the internal struggle we face even though we should trust (as Hugo does) that God has His hands on all things and is constantly taking care of us.'


    From a Friend:
    :) Crazy to think that we are ALL made of blood, bone and water yet we speak in so many tongues that getting along together becomes a massive task within itself.

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