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20 June Paradise to Lilongwe

7/9/2011

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20 June, Monday   paradise to Lilongwe 
 
We wake up with gusts of wind pulling at the tent – a storm is
brewing over the lake and the sky changes to a deep blue-brown color. A few
  raindrops fell, and then all is over. We pack and strap, say goodbye to Richard
  and ‘my’ beautiful paradise.

 On our way in to Lilongwe we try to find a Shoprite or grocery
store, but everything is closed until we realize it is Sunday. Our camp site is
an interesting place: Mabuya camp: a popular stop for overland trucks, groups,
campers and over landers. The place is full with an overland group, a tour group
that just arrived from Scotland, and several other groups. It is not totally our
scene, but it is a safe place for the car and us.

 The owners of the camp have a humongous, beautiful Rhodesian
  Ridgeback, also called Sammy and that meant car-arrest for our Sammie – should
  Sammy decide to not like our Sammie he might bite him in half. Sammy got sniff
  of Sammie and from that moment guarded the ‘prisoner’ with fervor – no ways
  Sammie could come out of the car without Sammy knowing. We tried to take him
out for a quick pee-pee, but were not successful and Sammy hovered like a lion
over our Sammie until we could quickly whisk Sammie back into the car! 
 
Hugo and Andrej manage to smuggle him to their tent, but Sammy
got whiff of his whereabouts and extended his guard territory. The nights are
definitely turning chillier – nice though, not uncomfortable. 


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    Caren

    "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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