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21 June, Lilongwe to Shire camp

7/9/2011

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21 June 
  Tuesday   Lilongwe to Shire camp
 
 
The car starts to lose power and jerks as if it does not get
  enough fuel. Willie thinks that it might be dirty fuel filters so he drops us
  off at Shoprite and Spar to stock up while he wants to find an auto parts
  dealer. The guys help me to find all the stuff we need to be stocked up for a
  few days. We love walking around in the stores that carry familiar-to-us
  products, because most of the products come from South Africa. Hugo tries to
  find Afrikaans magazines and then we lose him as a shopping helper, because he
  gets lost in words and oddities akin to the Afrikaans culture.

 It seems as if Lilongwe is a gathering place for expatriates from
all over the world: groups of young people on different missions, backpackers,
humanitarian aid workers and travelers. We leave the city after noon and drive
to the southern lake shore area – the Shire river and it is after dark when we
finally find a place to sleep: a small camping compound with very basic
facilities, behind a restaurant on the banks of the river. We are happy for the
safety that the enclosure gives to us as well as to the car. 
 
Tomorrow – another border crossing into Zimbabwe. 
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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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