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30 June Border Crossing # 19

7/9/2011

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30 June, Thursday    Vic Falls to Botswana  Border  Crossing # 19 
 
Willie, Andrej and Hugo walk down to the Falls. I’ve decided not
to go. I’ve been there many years ago, I remember the awesomeness of the spray
rain as the falls thunder to the depths and seeing it from the bridge yesterday
was good enough for me. 

I stay in the camp to repack the drawers, wash off dust and scrub
and clean all our eating utensils, because I actually have the luxury of warm
water! It is a wonderful morning putting away in my outdoor kitchen, while I
listen to Laurika Rauch and my Sammie-boy sleeping in the sun. I even cook a
  chili-lunch for the guys, because they will be hungry when they get back. They
  are hungry and happy to know that there is something to
eat.


All of us take hot showers and Andrej has the opportunity to
  speak to his parents for the first time since Dar es Salaam. Hugo and I go to
  the Spar for a few snacks. I do not want to buy fresh meat or produce, because
  I remember that they are strict at the Botswana border, because of
  Mouth-and-Claw disease.

 It takes us less than an hour to the Botswana border.
  Border-crossing number 19! We have to get out of the car and walk through a
  rinse as a precaution for Mouth and Claw and my heart almost stops. Sammie is
  tucked away in his stow-away place by Andrej’s feet, but not expecting to get
  out of the car, I do not close my window. Our car creates curiosity, because it
  is stuffed to the brim and the one official walks around the car and decide to
  lean in on my window with the Stow-away on the floor! Hugo says that he is sure
  the guy saw Sammie, but did not say anything. I’m not sure, but it could
be?

 We find a place to camp on the banks of the Chobe river and enjoy
a most amazing, brilliant orange-red sunset as is only possible in Africa. All 4
of us are excited, because tomorrow will be the very long awaited
  day…Namibia!


Amper daar, amper tuis!

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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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